BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:507@bfuu.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260314T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260314T210000 DTSTAMP:20260226T201941Z URL:https://bfuu.org/events/international-womens-day-concert SUMMARY:International Women's Day Concert DESCRIPTION:\n\n\nJoin us in celebrating International Women's Day with a c oncert featuring Bay Area luminaries Maggie Forti &\; her band Three Ri vers\, plus The Andrea Prichett Band and special guests Shelley Doty\, Ire ne Sazer and Michaelle Goerlitz\, Jeff Hobbs and more! Tickets are $20 ava ilable for purchase on Eventbrite\n\nIrene Sazer Internationally known gen re-hopping violinist/fiddler who has played with Ali Akbar Khan\, Ella Fit zgerald\, Ray Charles\, Smoky Robinson\, Frank Sinatra\, David Grisman\, L inda Rondstadt\, Bjork\, and Billy Joel\, performed at Carnegie Hall\, Lin coln Center\, and concert halls around the world. She’s a founding membe r of Turtle Island String Quartet\, as well as a soloist\, recording artis t\, and a respected educator. https://www.irenesazer.com/about/\n\nMaggie Forti is a lead vocalist known for her lush\, soulful vocals\, varied genr es and well crafted songwriting. She's performed with Peter Rowan\, Jerry Jeff Walker\, Vicki Randle\, Lindsay Lou\, ALO members\, James Nash\, Evie Laden\, members of The Brother’s Comatose\, The Rainbow Girls and many more. A veteran of three High Sierra Music Festivals\, she appears frequen tly in SF Bay’s favorite listening spaces. Formerly with Buffalo Roam Ba nd\, Maggie is the founding member of Wildcat Canyon Collective and Three Rivers band\, as well as a recording artist\, a co-facilitator of “Women ’s Liberate &\; Elevate Workshops” and a respected educator. maggie forti.com\n\nAndrea Prichett is known for her rich vocal performances and her political and topical songwriting style. Formerly with the nationally recognized folk trio “Rebecca Riots”. She is a member of the “Wildca t Canyon” acoustic music collective\, with Shelley Doty\, Maggie Forti\, Emily Shore\, Green and other local favorites. And Andrea loves to rock o ut with the Disco/R&\;B cover band “Shake It Booty Band” that recen tly won the East Bay Express 2024 Reader's Choice for "Best Cover Band". A ndrea has performed with Sonia of Disappear Fear\, Raz Kennedy\, Michael F ranti\, Laura Love\, Kris Delmhorst\, Cheryl Wheeler and many more. Learn more about Andrea at andreaprichett.com\n\nShelley Doty is a fantastic gui tarist with a powerfully rich voice\, as well as a prodigious songwriter\, and dynamic performer. The East Bay Express called her "the complete perf ormer in her use of cranked emotions in her singing\, edgy rock energy and swinging jazz guitar rhythms." Shelley's music infuses pop\, blues\, jazz \, and folk with a strong dose of passion. Her many bands--Jambay\, Pele-J uju\, Shelley Doty X-Tet\, and currently Skip the Needle --have all been p opular high energy collaborations. She often plays at the Freight &\; S alvage\, where she gets to explore “all the different sides of my musica l imagination.”\n\nMichelle Goerlitz is a versatile percussionist who's played recorded and toured with Liche Fuentes\, Holly Near\, Mark Levine\, Blame Sally\, Barbara Higbie\, Tret Fure\, Jennifer Berezan\, Mimi Fox\, and Gina Breedlove to name a few. spanning multiple genres of music from B razilian to Middle Eastern to jazz\, R&\;B and funk. She was a founding member of the renowned and long-term projects the Blazing Redheads and Wi ld Mango. Among her many instruments are congas\, bongo\, timbales\, sheke re\, cajon\, drumset\, and so many more! A sought-after teacher in the Bay Area\, Michaelle was the first female drum teacher at California Brazil C amp in 2004\, and in 2007 was named a Rising Star by Downbeat magazine. et c.http://www.michaellegoerlitz.com/bio.html\n\nThree Rivers band's talenet ed multiinstrumentalist Jeff Hobbs was a featured performer alongside Joan Baez and Sargent Splendor in the 2025 production of Soiled Dove with the Vau de Vire society cast. He plays many genres of music with a plethora of Bay Area bands using his improvisational approach. He's best known for hi s playing in Rosin Coven\, the original band for SF’s fantastic Edwardia n Ball. “Jeff Hobbs plays cello\, violin\, mandolin\, bass\, clarinet an d saxophone\, and is a stalwart of the Bay Area improv music scene. Hobbs can often be found in exploratory musical settings.” - Berkeleyside\n\nA nne Marie Praetzel (vocals/mandolin) grew up singing harmonies with her si sters on the back porch\, and loves nothing more than adding vocal color t o the musical mix. She sings with Bay Area bands\, including Dead Enough\, Peter Harris's Grateful Band\, Phil McGee &\; Friends\, Scarlet Fyre\, among others.\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://bfuu.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/imag e.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR