Old Soles

Restaurants, Wineries, Bars

Pub? Speakeasy? Goodtimes? Yes, yes, YES!

Weddings & Parties

Love songs & Laughter make the best parties!

Festivals, Themed Events

Historically accurate or just kinda... your choice!

Teaching

We love introducing folks to oldtime music and dance

~ Americana folk and Celtic roots music ~
"Traditional music that doesn't take itself too seriously"

Handmade organic music from Appalachia, Ireland, and California;
from the goldrush, the speakeasies, and radio days;
from the past and from the heart.

Geff Crawford

Geff Crawford has been playing fiddle for over 50 years, and banjo, guitar, ukulele, and concertina, too. He has played with many amazing musicians over the years, including Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger, Tom Paley, and more. He teaches fiddle, plays for contra dances, and writes some very funny songs.

Masha Crawford

Masha Goodman Crawford has been playing clawhammer banjo and Irish tinwhistle for 40+ years, and singing and dancing since she was about 5. She has performed & taught at festivals across the US and in Europe including calling the barn dance at the Strawberry Music Festival for over 20 years.

Masha and Geff offer traditional moonshine-flavored music with a twist of wry-whiskey humor. Enjoy roots-inspired driving fiddle, bluesy, rhythmic banjo, and close harmonies from two masters of traditional music, interweaving old with new, Appalachian with Irish.

MUSIC

In A Town This Size
song by John Prine
Green Room, Placerville 2021

I'm Getting Ready To Go
from the 2014 Yeow! show
video by Ross Mehan

Fiddle: Little Billy Wilson
traditional oldtime American
The Green Room, Placerville, 2021

Sí Beag, Sí Mór / Banish Misfortune
traditional Irish
The Green Room, Placerville, 2021

DATES

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2026

1/7: Music on Mill St, Grass Valley 1-3pm
1/10: Fox & Goose Pub, 1001 R Street, Sacramento 6-8pm
1/16-17: Great 48 Festival, Bakersfield - Geff & Masha teaching old-time tunes & leading jams
1/18: Wild Eye Pub Jam, 535 Mill St GV, 3-5pm
1/21: Eskaton, Granite Bay
2/4: Music on Mill St, Grass Valley 1-3pm
2/5: Center for the Arts, GV 6pm before American Patchwork Quartet
2/6: Bret Harte, 305 W Main, Grass Valley 4-5pm FREE mini-concert
2/14: Fox & Goose Pub, 1001 R Street, Sacramento 6-8pm
2/15: Wild Eye Pub Jam, 535 Mill St GV, 3-5pm
3/4: Music on Mill St, Grass Valley 1-3pm
3/14: Fox & Goose Pub, 1001 R Street, Sacramento 6-8pm
3/15: Wild Eye Pub Jam, 535 Mill St GV, 3-5pm
3/29: Grass Valley Brewing 3:00-6:00pm
4/1: Music on Mill St, Grass Valley 1-3pm
5/9: Fox & Goose Pub, 1001 R Street, Sacramento 6-8pm
5/17: Wild Eye Pub Jam, 535 Mill St GV, 3-5pm
5/21-25: Strawberry Music Festival
6/14-17: California Bluegrass (and Old-Time) Assoc. Music Camp Teaching!
6/18-20: California Bluegrass (and Old-Time) Assoc. Father's Day Festival Teaching!
7/17: Station Public House, Auburn
tba: Grass Valley Brewing
....and more tba!

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