Mark Karan is best known for performing with the extended Grateful Dead family.  For the last twelve years, he has anchored the lead guitar slot in Bob Weir & RatDog, playing hundreds of shows to thousands of fans year-round.  Before crossing over into the land of the Dead, Mark worked his guitar and vocal voodoo for the likes of Dave Mason, Delaney Bramlett, the Rembrandts, Paul Carrack, Huey Lewis, Jesse Colin Young and Sophie B. Hawkins.

Mark also tours with an array of amazing musicians on his own, where his soulful blues-based vocal stylings and inspired guitar work meld with the remarkably creative and responsive playing of his friends in a passionate delivery of the psychedelicized sounds of Americana. This is where rock meets R&B and country and mixes with the soul of New Orleans… with healthy portions of reggae, folk, funk and whatever else the muse might bring.  In addition to his originals, as well as those of songwriter friends, Mark covers a range of eclectic songs from Johnny "Guitar" Watson's "You Can Stay (But the Noize Must Go)" and Peter Tosh's "Don't Look Back", to the Kinks’ “Lazin’ on a Sunny Afternoon” or Joe Jackson’s “Fools in Love” -- his unique musical taste and song choices are the hallmark of these shows, and always crowd pleasers for his nationwide, loyal fanbase.

Music to be enjoyed.. Easy Wind / Rock Your Papa

$20 GA Standing / $25 GA Seated / $25 Day of Show

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Stairwell Sisters
April 24th
The Lark
549 Magnolia Ave in historic downtown Larkspur
Doors @ 8:30pm

Producer Lloyd Maines recalls hearing The Stairwell Sisters for the first time: “I happened upon this tribe of
women musicians, playing old-time string music, with the power and excitement of a great rock band.”
Tribe of women indeed. Evie Ladin explains what holds sway with the sisters, themes similarly found in one of
their early influences, Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard: “not exactly the sweet and tender ladies, but the stand up
for yourself and face the world kind of women.”

Which is exactly the kind of women that make up The Stairwell Sisters. Evie, Stephanie Prausnitz. Lisa Berman,
Martha Hawthorne, and Sue Sandlin are career women, organizers, activists and mamas; making ends meet
working and living in San Francisco. They also happen to crank out acoustic, old-time music with a punk-rock
intensity. Somehow, between raising children, working and releasing records, they’ve taken their band to some
rather well-regarded places – appearing on A Prairie Home Companion, festival stages from Lincoln Center
(NYC) and Hardly Strictly Bluegrass (SF) to Celtic Connections (UK), and many points in between.

The Stairwell Sisters come from varied musical backgrounds, some from acoustic traditions, others through
amped-up rock and roll. Sue Sandlin says hearing Flatt and Scruggs brought her back to the country mu-
sic her family loved, “It was akin to the hair raising excitement I felt the first time I heard The Clash as a
teenager.” The Sisters are all about bringing that excitement to the stage. Lauded for infectious shows that
combine buckdancing with balladry and sass, these women unfailingly play their instruments hell-bent to
drive the music.

$20 General Admisson $25 Day of Show

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The Lark Theater 415-924-5111