Fresh off their third tour to Iceland with crazy adventures like playing at an Icelandic film star’s wedding, to a show on a whale-watching boat, San Francisco-based band Dirty Cello will present their exciting blend of blues, rock and Americana at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 10, at the Volcano Art Center’s Niaulani Campus in Volcano village.
The band’s music has been described by Oakland Magazine as “… funky, carnival, romantic, sexy, tangled, electric, fiercely rhythmic, and textured, and only occasionally classical.”
Band leader and cellist Rebecca Roudman also is a member of classical orchestras, but with the Dirty Cello band she lets her hair down and uses her classical training to push the cello to its limits — more Jimi Hendrix than Yo-Yo Ma, according to a press release.
“We play what folks want to hear, from the ‘Devil Went Down to Georgia’ to Led Zeppelin,” Roudman said in the release. “We go on stage with a huge collection of songs and then just have a ton of fun — we don’t take ourselves too seriously, and we just want the audience to have a good time too.”
The band of has played all over the world, with tours from Italy to the Middle East and everywhere in between.
Tickets — which are $25 for VAC members/$30 for the general public — can be purchased at https://tinyurl.com/45eafpfj or by calling VAC at (808) 967-8222.