Bread & Roses Presents

Don’t miss the chance to get tickets to see legendary singer-songwriter guitarist Shawn Colvin in the intimate setting of the outdoor venue of HopMonk Tavern Novato on Friday August 7. This special concert is a benefit for Bread & Roses ongoing program of live music for those who need it most. Tickets are going fast. Hope you will join us soon for a very memorable night of music to support our mission. Tix at www.kcturnerpresents.com.

KC Turner delivers another solid lineup for Cookout Concert Series in Novato Get tickets for Shawn Colvin, Molly Tuttle, Cracker, Charlie Musselwhite and more at Cookout Concert Series at HopMonk Tavern Novato.

The 13th Annual KC Turner Presents Cookout Concert Series at HopMonk Tavern Novato is underway. The first two concerts with the The Brothers Comatose and Brandy Clark were outstanding. We were so happy to see rising star (and Bay Area native) Olivia Wolf from Nashville opening the show for Brandy. Tickets are going fast for three don’t miss shows this weekend. Bread & Roses will have a presence at all Cookout Concerts accepting donations for raffle tickets for a beautiful Gibson Rose Burst guitar to be signed by Joan Baez. The concert with The California Honeydrops on Memorial Day is sold out but tickets for Saxsquatch on Friday May 22, Bill Kirchen on May 23 and ALO on May 24 are still available. Help us keep live music alive for those who need it most and let’s celebrate the up beat at the start of the summer concert season this weekend…

Check out the Cookout Concert Series May lineup!

KC Turner Presents Cookout Concert Season launches this weekend at HopMonk Tavern Novato with an exciting season. Please join us this Saturday night May 16 for the incomparable double bill with powerhouse singer-songwriters Brandy Clark and Olivia Wolf opening. We will be hosting our ninth season of a raffle for a beautiful Gibson guitar to be signed by Joan Baez with all raffle proceeds benefitting our ongoing program of live music for isolated Bay Area audiences. The concert starts at 6 pm with door at 4, so hope to see you then. For tix, see: https://www.kcturnerpresents.com.

Outdoors at HopMonk - Novato, CA
🔥 SATURDAY, MAY 16 🔥

Brandy Clark
+ Olivia Wolf

4pm Doors | 6pm Show
KC Turner Presents Cookout Concert Series
Sponsored by JAMBAR

Happy birthday to our founder the late Mimi Farina who would have been 81 on April 30. We think about Mimi every day as her great legacy of Bread & Roses lives on. We are now in our 51st year and still bring over 400 concerts every year to isolated Bay Area folks. Mimi is a beacon of bright light whose example continues to inspire so many talented performers to share their best gifts with those who need uplifting most. We will look to the stars in the sky tonight and think of Mimi with love and admiration for the nonprofit she created that continues on today…

1969....Mimi Farina.
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Margarita Mimi Baez Fariña (April 30, 1945 – July 18, 2001) was an American singer-songwriter and activist, the youngest of three daughters to a white mother and Mexican-American physicist Albert Baez. She was the younger sister of the singer and activist Joan Baez.

Fariña died of neuroendocrine cancer at her home in Mill Valley, California on July 18, 2001, at age 56. A memorial service was held on August 7, 2001 at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. 1,200 people attended.

The life of Mimi Fariña is partially chronicled in David Hajdu's book Positively 4th Street. She is alluded to in the Armistead Maupin novel Tales of the City, set in San Francisco in the 1970s, and she appeared in a cameo role in the 1993 miniseries based on the novel.

She is referred to by Carol Ward (Catherine O'Hara) in the U.S. television series Six Feet Under, in which it is stated that Fariña had been involved with the production of the (fictitious) Pack Up Your Sorrows: The Mimi Fariña Story. She also was the subject of sister Joan Baez' 1969 song "Sweet Sir Galahad".

She appears in the 2012 documentary Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation and the 2023 documentary Joan Baez: I Am a Noise.