“Anyone who’s been in an audience when the San Francisco Bay Area Dirty Cello takes the stage knows that something unique happens whenever cellist Rebecca Roudman and ensemble come face to face with living, breathing (and whooping and shouting) fans.” – Strings Magazine
“Petaluma favorites Dirty Cello have been hard to describe, apart from saying that a cello (played in ways you won’t quite believe) is involved, and the range of music takes the word eclectic an supercharges it to meltdown levels of energy and invention.” – Argus Courier
Dirty Cello – cello like you’ve never heard before! Combine the virtuosic wail of Jimi Hendrix, the soul of BB King, and the fire of Bill Monroe, and add a whole lot of cello, and you get the Dirty Cello band. Dirty Cello performs all over the world, from Iceland to Israel, from Scottish castles to underground caves presenting an energetic and wild show that’s been described as, “Dirty Cello’s music is all over the map: funky, carnival, romantic, sexy, tangled, electric, fiercely rhythmic, and textured, and only occasionally classical.” by Oakland Magazine.
“The band plays every style imaginable, and does some fantastic covers. (Their rendition of “Purple Haze” is incredible.) But what is most spectacular about them is hearing the depth of soul in Roudman’s playing—it goes beyond what most people would expect from the instrument. She plays it with so much heart, you’ll wonder why more bands don’t have a cellist.” Good Times Santa Cruz
“A five-piece string ensemble that truly pushes the envelope and breaks the barriers, they blend blues, bluegrass and world music sounds with roots in the world of European classical music in a style that is unique and refreshing.” Cloverdale Reveille
“The group seamlessly careens from blues to bluegrass and rock in a way that really shouldn’t make sense but somehow does.” LA Times
Orcas Center’s Summer Concert Series on the Village Green is FREE thanks to donations from local individuals and businesses including Country Corner, OrcaSong Farm, Buck Bay Shellfish Farm, Maria and Bill Burke, Darvill’s, Doe Bay Resort, Eastsound Airport Center, GiveOrcas and OICF, Island House Dental, Island Life, KaBloom Landscape Design, The Little Farm on Olga Road, A Massage by the Sea, New Leaf Café, Orcas Food Co-Op, Outlook Inn, Pawki’s for Pets, Ray’s Pharmacy, Salish Sea Medical, San Juan County LTAC, Savi Bank, Stoltz Kau Architects, Tony and Jenna Hair Studio, and West Sound Marina.
