Joe Craven and The Sometimers featuring Bruce MacMillan and Jonathan Stoyanoff, have created a “no genre left behind” policy of music making while leaping from a springboard of Americana. A 35 year veteran in the music biz, Joe comes impressively credentialed and the 3 of them hold poetic license to operate heavy machinery. They perform impressively credentialed to operate power tools that include both upright and electric bass, various guitars, Dobro, lap steel, mandolin, octave mandolin, fiddle, percussion, vocals, more cowbell and who knows what else. This NorCal-based trio is celebration for a new framework of POP music, as in "Pursuit of Possibility" music. Give them and their debut CD a listen and you just might do a little dance while you're at it! online at www.joecraven.com/projects

Joe Craven
Multi-instrumentalist Joe Craven is an award-winning creativity educator, former museum curator, actor, music festival emcee, Director of RiverTunes Music Camp, a keynote clinician and fashion insultant. Joe Craven’s love of music has put him in many musical genres and alongside many musicians, from Jerry Garcia, David Lindley, Howard Levy and Jason Marsalis, to banjoist Alison Brown and groups like Psychograss and The Horseflies. For 17 years, he was percussionist / violinist for mandolinist David Grisman. Joe’s unique education programs have inspired; communities in Costa Rica, corporate heads in Contra Costa, CA, a dozen different music camps, thousands of school kids from Stockton to Scotland and college students from Alaska to Alabama. Whether jamming with musicians from Morocco or Mendocino, performing solo, with his daughter Hattie, The Joe Craven Trio, Mamajowali, The Sometimers or in Carnegie Hall or busking on Cannery Row – Joe’s at home and loving every minute!

“Joe Craven is magical” – San Francisco Chronicle
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Jonathan Stoyanoff is a much in demand bassist who is a fan of, trained in and very proficient at, a wide variety of vernacular music. He attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA on a performance scholarship and, since then, Jonathan has helped form and perform in a variety of musical projects. He has played and/or shared bills with jazz, blues and rock/pop greats Larry Coryell, B.B. King, Robert Cray, Huey Lewis, Dave Mason, Jackie Greene, Ozomatli, Spearhead, The Isley Brothers, Maceo Parker and many more. Jonathan has also played at some of the nation's most prestigious festivals including the Monterey Jazz Festival, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, and the High Sierra Music Festival.
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Bruce MacMillan is a wonderfully intuitive musician dedicated to the holy temple of American Roots Music. His passion for the history and variety of America’s musical heritage has resulted in a versatility across many musical genres. From Blues to Bluegrass, Country to Jazz and Rock & Roll, Bruce plays with wonderful energy and artistry. He has performed upon many stages and at many music festivals, including the Strawberry Music Festival, High Sierra, and California Worldfest. With his wife Sally, they have two fine music stores in Chico and Redding, CA, known as The Music Connection where Bruce displays his chops as an educator, repairman and salesman. Bruce’s impressive skills on vocals plus all manner of guitars, Dobro and lap steel, bring a broad palette of sound to Joe Craven & The Sometimers.