Joe & Hattie Craven

We have had the pleasure of hosting Hattie Craven in our living room just once, two years ago. We are glad she has agreed to join us again, chaperoning her father for their first duo visit to Música Del Río. Joe Craven has been here many times, always in diverse incarnations of his serious, yet slanted musical style, colored by a few stabs at his love of sharing the absurd.

Together Hattie and Joe Craven bring us rootsy jazz, worldly blues, and the folk/bluegrass style, colored by Joe’s 17 years with mandolinist David Grisman. Not to mention many years with guitarist Jerry Garcia and banjo artist Alison Brown. As Hattie has grown with this musical nonsense over her 24 years, she has offered her father small bits of musical sanity from time to time.

This family has created a celebration of music making by finding common ground between different generations with differing musical tastes and sensibilities, as the Cravens bring their love of music (with running commentary) to a multi-generational table and audience.

Join us in welcoming Hattie and Joe, back to Música Del Río on Friday, November 14.