Beth Custer

Hello fine people,

That’s keyboardist/composer Jordan Glasgow and trumpeter Chris Grady of our sweet band Russian Telegraph. We go into the studio next week 🙂 and on December 1 we’ll be performing a 5:30pm set at the glorious Ivy Room in Albany, CA. Doors open at 4pm with the definite grooves of B-Side Galaxy (4:30pm) and the full funk of Double Stroke follow. Don’t miss this special concert, wear your sunny smile and your dancing shoes!

I thought I had played all the concert halls in the Bay Area yet no! On November 24 I’ll be fully clothed and singing backups with the Robley D Variety Show at the Condor…strip club! Come bathe in and shake to the sounds of SF’s finest rockers including Mike ‘Che’ McKevitt, Bruce Schlesinger, Mark Yee and of course Robley D Evans. Canastafarians?

The holiday/donation season cometh! When you’re in a good, giving mood consider buying one of my scores, CDs, DVDs, or you can very easily just donate here detritus free! For a top secret unlisted LP that I’m featured on please send a $250 donation and your mailing address!

Also consider regular donations to The New Farm, where magic happens and where this photo of a wonderful neighboring tenant was taken.

Be well, see you out there,

Beth

Will Bernard and I have been playing music together since the early 1980’s. We met either at a Peter Apfelbaum’s Hieroglyphics Ensemble concert or at one of Will’s infamous parties at The Hut. We finally made our first recording~ ‘SKY‘ and we’ve a brief tour in support here in the Bay Area and in the great north west. We’ll be joined by the fabulous Ellen Gronningen on violin and including some new compositions. Hope to see you out there!

I love summer! I’ve been jamming at The New Farm weekends. Check out the new website, stop down to hear some music, visit the chickens, goats, and people, buy plants at Heron’s Head! The Farm is a donation based non-profit. Consider holding your next event there and please donate to help maintain a unique community center in San Francisco.

I’ve some juicy gigs coming up including tomorrow, People in Plazas

Katchapuri Trio (David James, guitar, Jess Ivry, cello, me, clarinets) this Thursday, July 25th noon-1pm. Come eat your lunch and listen to our lovely trio.

August 9-11 I’ll be performing at Fringe of the Woods Festival an hour above LA with Peter Valsamis (Trance Mission) and Avi Zahner. We open each night with a set of songs from Eighty Mile Beach and beyond.

Have a lovely summer and hope to see you out there!

Russian Telegraph performed the Make Out Room a couple weeks ago, what a delight. We’ll be at Albany’s Ivy Room May 19th performing alongside Double Stroke, come out and shake your fluffernutter.

At my fav Garden of Memory music series in Oakland’s own Chapel of the Chimes, June 21st, 5-9pm, Will Bernard and I will perform SKY+ some solos and Stephen Kent and I will be jamming a spell. Dare I say it? 🙂 Not to be missed.

I hope you’re doing well and getting some good food, rest and sunshine.

Hi there,

I’ve got a few gigs coming up these next two months. Tonight I’m singing with Robley @ 10pm @ the Bay View Boat Club where Mike Dingle has been holding Third Thursday concerts for decades. I recorded last summer on Robley’s upcoming release and his band is filled with rock royalty with Mike ‘Che’ McKevitt, guitar, Bruce Schlesinger, drums, and Lizie Skow will sing a few.

Russian Telegraph performs this Saturday at MakeOut Room in San Francisco, 7pm.

Hope to see you out there.

Hello sweet fans, friends, family,

I hope you’re all doing really well and making art, love, food, and taking very good care of yourselves!

I just got a solo gig added this Sunday, 4-9pm, 432 Cortland Ave., here in the 94110~SF.

I’ve known Victor Navarette for decades, he and his wife Leila Mansur run Radio Havana Social Club on Valencia St., where I met husband Federico Cusigch, conducted a shoot w/Dona Luz 30 Besos w/Jan Jackson, Will Bernard, (photographer: Anne Hamersky). Poor lme, I’d just returned from my second trip to Cuba, 2000! Love is all y’all! See ya Sunday.