Meet The HOT LICKS

PAUL ROBINSON toured internationally as lead guitarist with folk-swing inventor Dan Hicks, pop icon Al Stewart (Year of the Cat), Romeo Void’s Debora Iyall and the Hot Club of San Francisco. Paul has added his signature guitar sound to CDs ranging from pop and rock to jazz and beyond. He has shared the stage with Don Was, Bob Weir, David Sanborn, Steve Winwood, Hal Blaine, Al Jardine and Maria Muldaur. Paul has also performed and/or recorded with Bayside Jazz with Dan Hicks, The Original Sons (Sons of the Kingston Trio), among many others and has opened for such greats as Joni Mitchell, Joan Osborne, Dave Mason and Roger McGuinn.

DARIA is an innovative vocalist and songwriter, known for her reimagined interpretations of jazz and pop standards. She has 3 critically acclaimed CDs. Her most recent, Strawberry Fields Forever, Songs by the Beatles, was released on award winning Origin Records.  Daria has performed internationally, including tours to Japan and Montreux Jazz. She toured with Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks. She has recorded and/or shared the stage with many notable musicians including, Dan Hicks (On SurfDog Records), Ricki Lee Jones, Diana Krall, Bonnie Raitt, Dave Grisman, Bob Dorough, Maria Muldaur, Joe Sample, Christian McBride, José Neto, Abe Laboriel, and Alex Acuña, among others.

PAULA BRADMAN is an accomplished singer and actor. She has appeared in national commercials, movies and television shows and includes voiceover and jingle work in her credits. In addition to singing rock and jazz styles, she has performed leading roles in musical theatre productions throughout the SF Bay Area including the long running musical Party of One and For Whom the Bridge Tolls by Rita Abrams.  Paula has performed with Craig Chiquico, toured with Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks and is a member of Bay Area rock band, The Flaming O’s and The JessePaula Band.

CANDY GIRARD has toured as a violinist in the US, Great Britain, Japan, Korea and Australia. Her recording credits include, the soundtrack for the TV series, Firefly, video game World of Starcraft, Mason Williams and The CD, Cats Under the Stars with the Jerry Garcia Band. She has performed at The Great American Music Hall and the Kennedy Center. She has performed with Shirley Bassey, Hank Thompson, Circus Flora with the Flying Walendas, Big Band Leader, Wayne Foster, the Raiders Band under the direction of Horace Heights, Disneyland and Knottsberry Farm. She has appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Jimmy Kimmel Show, American Idol, Dancing With the Stars and Who’s Line is it Anyway. Candy received the honor of fiddle player of the year for both Los Angeles and California from the California Country Music Association and was inducted into Western Swing Hall of Fame as well as the South Australia Country Music Hall of Fame.

ALEX BAUM has performed from Osaka to Orviedo playing both stand up and electric bass. Working in many styles, he has performed or recorded with Dan Hicks (Shootin’ Straight), Surf Dog CD /DVD release Dan Hicks & Hot Licks 60th Birthday Concert, Eddie “ Lockjaw” Davis, “Sweets” Edison, Johnny Nocturne Band (Rounder and Bullseye Records), Murasaki Ensemble, Dave Sanborn, Pinetop Perkins, Mitch Woods Rocket 88’s, Bob Weir, Clarence Clemmons, Jessica Williams and Riche Cole among others. He has performed at Umbria Jazz Festival and Monterey Jazz. He toured extensively as a member of Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks and the Acoustic Warriors.

ROY BLUMENFELD - Back in the mythic Summer of Love, 1967 -- if you were in New York City, the place to be was MacDougal Street. The club to be inwas the Cafe Au Go Go, pedigreed in hipness by Lenny Bruce's famous profanity bust there by the NYPD. The Au Go Go's star bandwas the Blues Project, a group on the cutting edge of Improvisational, classical, blues and jazz. Danny Kalb was the Project's lead guitarist and vocalist; Al Kooper was the keyboardist and vocalist; Steve Katz was its guitarist and vocalist; There was Andy Kulberg on bass and flute. And the drummer, the heartbeat for the group, was Roy Blumenfeld. Having started at the white-hot center of that mythic era, Blumenfeld went on to perform at  landmark events: the Monterey Pop Festival, the Newport Jazz Festival, evenings at Lincoln Center. After the Blues Project disbanded, he was a key member of Seatrain (along with Andy Kulberg and Richard Greene). Over the years Roy has performed and recorded with the most Illustrious soul, funk, blues and rock legends -- Chuck Berry, John Lee Hooker, Carlos Santana, Paul Butterfield, Elvin Bishop, Nick Gravenites, Barry Goldberg, David LaFlamme (It's A Beautiful Day), Barry Melton (Country Joe and the Fish), Banana (The Youngbloods), Peter Albin (Big Brother and the Holding Company: the band that launched Janis Joplin) and Robert Hunter (the Grateful Dead)... to name a few.