Winter Warmer Festival

Come warm up inside the beautiful Bret Harte Opera Hall for a day of great music, local comfort food and some of the best craft beer the area has to offer.

What’s included

-Live music from local and regional touring acts
-Craft beer
-Comfort food
-beautiful venue nestled in the redwood forest
-free parking

Itinerary

3 PM – Doors

3:30 PM – Rory Lynch

5 PM – Benjamin Andrews (of Con Brio)

6:15 PM – Greg Loiacono & Stingray

8 PM – Forrest Day

Highlights

Come out and warm up with a celebration of great music, beer, food and community.

About our Artists:

Forrest Day – Based out of Oakland, Forrest Day is a 5 piece band that’s been performing concerts around the country for almost a decade. It’s a true rags to riches story, but without any money. New album in the works, shows being booked, this wonka boat is showing no signs of slowing…combining elements of jazz, hip hop and more, this is a don’t miss act.

Greg Loiacono & Stingray – While Greg Loiacono may be best known as a gritty rock and soul man from his work with The Mother Hips and Chris Robinson, the singer who emerges on Giving It All Away, his charismatic new solo album, is a far more sensitive storyteller, one whose tender delivery and heartfelt lyrics lay it all on the line in the plainspoken poetry of Bill Withers or The Everly Brothers.

Benjamin Andrews – Benjamin Andrews is a guitarist, lyricist, vocalist and legend in Bay Area rock‘n’roll. Equally at home playing a dive bar or a festival stage in front of thousands of people, Andrews has spent the last 20 years in and around San Francisco, making a name for himself as a guitar virtuoso with jaw-dropping chops, a natural showmanship and deeply expressive style. As a veteran member of the acclaimed R&B/modern soul band Con Brio, he’s performed at the likes of Bonnaroo, Austin City Limits, Outside Lands, Lollapalooza, Japan’s FujiRock and Australia’s Byron Bay BluesFest.

2024’s YOU’RE DOING GREAT,is Andrews’ first major solo work, a compelling collection of songs he wrote between 2022 and 2024 and recorded at Con Brio’s Oakland studio. While sweeping, cinematic strings and driving rhythms accompany Andrews’ typically stunning guitar work, his soulful vocals take center stage here, drawing the listener close with conflicted meditations on love and self-destruction, death and rebirth. At once tender and tough, vulnerable yet sonically vast, YOU’RE DOING GREAT reveals a musician who’s seen some things, lived some lives, and is ready to let us in.

Rory Lynch is a singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer based in Santa Cruz, CA. His music encompasses classic genres like country, jazz, and pop while blending in classic Americana themes. His debut album “Sittin’ On The Well” is out now on all streaming platforms.