The Sun That Brief December Day …
“Got laid off down at the factory and their timing’s not the greatest in the world,
Heaven knows I been working hard, wanted Christmas to be right for daddy’s girl,
I don’t mean to hate December, it’s meant to be the happy time of year,
And my little girl don’t understand why Daddy can’t afford no Christmas here.”
(Merle Haggard, If We Make It Through December)
“The sun that brief December day
Rose cheerless over hills of gray,
And, darkly circled, gave at noon
A sadder light than waning moon.” (Snowbound by John Greenleaf Whittier)
Hello Friends, Music Fans, and Neighbors,
This Friday, December 9, we will play at the Amos White/Dillon Vado production, “Beyond Words: Jazz and Poetry: Stand with Standing Rock,” 8 – 11 pm, at The Backroom in Berkeley, CA, 1984 Bonita Ave.
Chappell & Dave Holt are FAR-West touring musicians from the SF Bay Area; Cristina is a
Minnesota fiddling champion, originally from Southern California, who has toured world widely over the last 25 years. Drawn together by a mutual love of the broad landscape of American music, they play and tour together as often as possible.
"Coconuts" (by Mark Wise)
They will perform together at a Friday, December 30th house concert in Santa Cruz: Chappell & Dave Holt with Cristina Seaborn (fiddle) and Francyl Gawryn at 7 pm. Please respond to this email to request details and the address if you would like to attend. The next night, on New Years Eve, Saturday, December 31, 2016, we will play another house concert in the nearby neighborhood of Bonny Doon with the addition of singer/songwriter, James Woodward.
Mother Hen Promotions has posted a Christmas compilation called “Mom Hen Layin Some Christmas on Ya” on RADIO SUBMIT featuring Holiday singles from Chappell & Dave Holt among other musicians.
Dave will be playing the Christmas Eve service at Unity Center in Walnut Creek. If you want to participate in the worship from home while wrapping your presents, go to http://www.unityofwalnutcreek.
Chappell’s Holiday song, “Cause to Celebrate,” (Dave on piano) is being played on Women of Substance Holiday music podcast on December 8th. Click on Listen Now.
House concerts, live music in the intimacy of a home, are a great way to experience music! Please contact us if you’re interested in hosting one in your area by replying to this newsletter. Don’t forget to like our band page and support live music, and Chappell’s Facebook artist page. If you’re on Instagram, you can find Chappell at her name, lower case, one word. Follow us on twitter @chappellanddave.
With holidays just around the corner, remember that you can check out Chappell’s shop on Etsy for gift ideas.
We look forward to seeing you at our shows!
Chappell & Dave Holt
Chappell & Dave Holt are FAR-West touring musicians from the SF Bay Area; Cristina is a
Minnesota fiddling champion, originally from Southern California, who has toured world widely over the last 25 years. Drawn together by a mutual love of the broad landscape of American music, they play and tour together as often as possible."Coconuts" (by Mark Wise)
They will perform together at a Friday, December 30th house concert in Santa Cruz: Chappell & Dave Holt with Cristina Seaborn (fiddle) and Francyl Gawryn at 7 pm. Please respond to this email to request details and the address if you would like to attend. The next night, on New Years Eve, Saturday, December 31, 2016, we will play another house concert in the nearby neighborhood of Bonny Doon with the addition of singer/songwriter, James Woodward.
Mother Hen Promotions has posted a Christmas compilation called “Mom Hen Layin Some Christmas on Ya” on RADIO SUBMIT featuring Holiday singles from Chappell & Dave Holt among other musicians.Dave will be playing the Christmas Eve service at Unity Center in Walnut Creek. If you want to participate in the worship from home while wrapping your presents, go to http://www.unityofwalnutcreek.
Chappell’s Holiday song, “Cause to Celebrate,” (Dave on piano) is being played on Women of Substance Holiday music podcast on December 8th. Click on Listen Now.
House concerts, live music in the intimacy of a home, are a great way to experience music! Please contact us if you’re interested in hosting one in your area by replying to this newsletter. Don’t forget to like our band page and support live music, and Chappell’s Facebook artist page. If you’re on Instagram, you can find Chappell at her name, lower case, one word. Follow us on twitter @chappellanddave.
With holidays just around the corner, remember that you can check out Chappell’s shop on Etsy for gift ideas.
We look forward to seeing you at our shows!
Chappell & Dave Holt
We hope to see some of you at our upcoming feature at the First Saturday Poetry Reading at La Promenade Café, Address: 3643 Balboa St., near 38th Avenue, in San Francisco’s Outer Richmond; date is Saturday, November 5, 7-9:30 pm.
Anniversary of the Summer of Love. The store Chappell does most of her contracting with, Decades of Fashion
on Haight Street in SF, is being featured in the show, including an old
hippie restyled Edwardian dress she restored, actually completely
rebuilt from Edwardian bits and pieces. It will be the centerpiece and
she gets credit for the work! Chappell has started working on what
she’ll be wearing in preparation for the Gala opening of the De Young
show “40th Anniversary of the Summer of Love.” She’s making a handbag
with a 100 year old Oddfellow’s collar that she beaded over and attached
to leather from an old jacket and also beading a fringed leather jacket
for Dave!
Happy Birthday Joni Mitchell this November 7!
and October.
Chappell will share 
him receiving 2013 award). At least ten additional dance acts will
present choreography combining poetry and dance as a unified dance form
on Saturday, September 17, 2016, from 12 noon to 4 pm, at the
architecturally beautiful and prestigious California Palace of the
Legion of Honor, in the elegant, neoclassical Florence Gould Theater,
Lincoln Park, 100 34th Clement St., San Francisco.
Watch for our upcoming show with the 
Reserve the date: Saturday, August 6, at the Back Room in Berkeley, a beautiful new listening room with a grand piano and great sound! We will share this evening of original jazz, blues and rock with WoodBarry, an Americana Rock/Country group featuring Woody
Trevorrow and Barry Silverblatt from legendary Bay Area band Hearts on Fire. Fellow "Hearts" and Houston/Jones vet, guitarist Glenn Houston, and Nancy Hall from the Curios, will be joining them onstage. See
Lots of poetry events this month! Starting this Thursday July 7th, Dave will read at Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael; Saturday July 9th at Museum of the American Indian in Novato, 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. where he'll be reading with contributors to the anthology Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from California. Readers will include co-editor Kurt Schweigman, as well as 
House concerts, live music in the intimacy of a home, are a great way to experience music! Please contact us if you’re interested in hosting one in your area by replying to this newsletter. Don’t forget to like our band page,
Then on July 3, Chappell & Dave return to Unity of Walnut Creek, 1871 Geary Rd., Walnut Creek, CA. We will be the featured music for the two Sunday morning services, 9:30 & 11:30 AM doing original spiritual songs and rockin' gospel. Remember you can
Our holiday song “Cause to Celebrate” has been released. You can listen to it, if you’d like to celebrate Christmas early, 
Chappell interviewed for
American Poetry from California (RIRW), in addition to discussing many issues related to Native American history and culture. P.S. To go directly to the interview, you can click on the RIRW portion of the podcast at 10 min. 45 sec. into the soundcloud file.
Women of Substance Radio Show #351 can still be heard on their podcast.
from Sandee Rosenberg, our host, “While we set up the PA, Dave sat down at the piano & began to play a rollicking boogie woogie; the residents immediately responded … Chappell & Dave performed songs from the American songbook and many of the tunes were familiar to the residents. As some sang along now & then, one woman sang along to just about every song. Most all the current residents are in wheelchairs. Their enjoyment was clear in all the hand & toe tapping and big smiles.” And from Carolyn Gauthier, VP of Programs, “We’re so happy to have you as part of our family of performers. You make a difference!” If you haven’t tried it, providing music as a community service is a rewarding experience.
We are going to get back to recording this month. We’ll do a couple of “holiday” tunes at Oscar Autie’s studio in El Cerrito. We first met Oscar when he’d just arrived from Cuba in the 1990’s and his wife worked with Tom Ekkens, Chappell’s brother. He had his first studio going at the time but we chose to record in Martinez back then. Oscar is the Grammy Award-winning engineer/owner/operator of 
Dave is published in a new anthology of American Indian poets, Red Indian Road West (pictured above with some of the poets). He and Lucille Lang Day, editor/publisher, just recorded a radio interview show to be aired in April. Stay tuned!