Hobo Paradise DEBUT Performance @ Penngrove Pub! at The Penngrove Pub – Penngrove, CA

DOORS: 6:30pm

SHOW: 7-10pm

TICKETS- $10 presale/$15 Doors

Hobo Paradise is aSan Francisco Bay Area-based roots and acoustic bandthat blends the 1920s early ragtime stylings of Blind Blake with original songwriting. Led by singer, guitarist, and harmonica player JL Stiles, the group covers early American blues and rags. The band’s current lineup frequently features trombonist Mike Rinta, multi-instrumentalist Doug Ellington, and drummer Erik Cruze. They actively play at venues across Northern California, such as The Lost Church and the Golden Gate Park Bandshell.

Hobo Paradise

Party waiting to happen

Imagine stepping back in time to the late 1920’s when early jazz, blues and rags were the thing, fresh and unpredictable, and you got Hobo Paradise, a band that covers a nice chunk of the classic American Songbook as well as straying into its own unqiue territory. Hobo Paradise was born in part from the seminal figure in Scott Joplin with a dose of ragtime’s greatest finger style guitar player and singer, Blind Blake. JL Stiles, solo ragtime fingerpicker/singer/songwriter, surrounds himself with an allstar cast, including Doug Ellington, Tom Griesser and Mike Rinta as the horn section, Ben Bernstein (string bass) and Erik Cruze (drums).