Songs of Love - Gone Wrong!

At the show the world traveling band Dirty Cello will rock their way through a program with their signature high energy and irreverent style. With powerful singing and lightning fast instrumentals, the program will even include their relationship song, “I May Not Be Perfect, But I’m Pretty Damn Good.”

This concert will feature no romantic songs, no happy endings and nothing sappy. Instead, the show will be all about songs that take an unvarnished look at love. There will be blues songs where no one escapes unscathed, rock songs that don’t end with a kiss and even a bluegrass murder ballad or two.

From Iceland to Italy, and all over the U.S., San Francisco-based band Dirty Cello brings the world a high energy and unique spin on blues, rock, and Americana. With wild vocals, and world class cello playing, the group is led by vivacious cross-over cellist, Rebecca Roudman. Dirty Cello is cello like you’ve never heard before. From down home blues and rock with a wailing cello to virtuosic stompin’ Americana, Dirty Cello is a band that gets your heart thumping and your toes tapping!

"Dirty Cello’s music is all over the map: funky, carnival, romantic, sexy, tangled, electric, fiercely rhythmic, and textured, and only occasionally classical." Oakland Magazine

"The group seamlessly careens from blues to bluegrass and rock in a way that really shouldn't make sense but somehow does." LA Times

"The ensemble plays a range of eclectic tunes in ways you won’t hear anyone else dare to attempt." - Argus Courier

"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

"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 and supercharges it to meltdown levels of energy and invention." - Argus Courier

What's the music?

Rebecca Roudman