Big Richard with Miss Leo ~ An all female bluegrass experience!

About this event

Miss Leo is opening up the show, Big Richard is the headliner. Doors open at 7! If we could be ready by 5 or 6, open at 6… it would say 5 or 6 on the tickets. So come at 7, not 6 🙂

We do serve dinner during the show.

Table reservations are limited and $100 each. Email monte@thesirenmorrobay.com for info

The world-class musicians in Big Richard initially convened in 2021 for a festival date. The

quartet showed up to the one-off like it had been together for years, bursting with jaw-

dropping virtuosity; playfully irreverent stage banter; stunning four-part harmony vocal

interlace; imaginative arrangements; a refreshingly eclectic repertoire; and a healthy dose of

lady rage.

Quickly things for the Colorado-based, neo-acoustic supergroup morphed into something way

bigger than a one-and-done appearance. The sellout club shows, and the confirmed festival

dates across America drastically changed its members’ lives and, in one case, livelihood—fiddler

Eve Panning left the security of her middle school teaching job to go on the road. Now, Big

Richard is poised to penetrate the Americana music world and beyond. To date, the quartet has

issued 3 singles, the Live from Telluride album, and it has new music on the way.

“You know the satisfaction when you add the missing piece to a puzzle?,” asks cellist Joy

Adams. “That’s the feeling we have—there was a hole for aggressive and empowered females

in this scene. We are filling that with Big Richard.” She continues: “We take what we do

seriously, but we don’t take ourselves seriously.” Bassist and guitarist Emma Rose adds: “This

group is an opportunity to share our full selves—be honest with emotions, showcase our chops

a bit, and break through the wall of what women are expected to be.”

Big Richard features four well-established career musicians who are artists in their own right

outside the group, and remain in-demand side person musicians. The quartet includes platinum

recording artist Bonnie Sims on mandolin (Bonnie & Taylor Sims, Everybody Loves an Outlaw, Bonnie and the Clydes), multi-genre musician Dr. Joy Adams on cello (Nathaniel Rateliff, Darol Anger, Half Pelican, Bruce Hornsby, Bobby McFerrin, Chick Corea, Ben Folds), Emma Rose on bass and guitar (Sound of Honey, Daniel Rodriguez, Whippoorwill, Courtney Hartman), and Eve Panning on fiddle (Lonesome Days, TEDx, Barrage, Hollywood Film Score Orchestra). The four musicians have previously played together in various configurations, but united to rage fiddle tunes and smash the patriarchy in Big Richard.