A dazzling lineup of Freight & Salvage glitterati, featuring F&S board chairs past and present and other longtime musical friends, graces our stage for this year's 37th anniversary celebration. Singer-songwriters Phil Marsh and Suzanne Fox, guitar/fiddle duo Eric & Suzy Thompson, singer and slide guitarist/dobro player Mayne Smith, guitarists Eric Park and Marc Silber, and fiddler Ray Bierle are joined by many more special guests for this gala event.

Phil Marsh sang and picked his guitar with the Cleanliness & Godliness Skiffle Band at the 1968 opening night of the Freight and Salvage. Phil also performed with the street theater ensemble, the East Bay Sharks, was musical director for the Pickle Family Circus, wrote songs for the San Francisco Mime Troupe, and helped create the infamous Masked Marauders superstar spoof album. Tonight, Phil ranges from folk and country to blues and originals, joined by various musical cohorts.

Eric and Suzy Thompson are two of the Bay Area folk music scene's most versatile stars. Key members of many of the area�s best known folk groups past and present, including the Blue Flame String Band, Graineog Ceilidh Band, the California Cajun Orchestra, the Aux Cajunals, and the Bluegrass Intentions, flatpicking maestro Eric and fiddler and vocalist extraordinaire Suzy play just about anything, from bluegrass to Cajun to Irish traditional to Greek rembetika�and they do it with fire, verve, and finesse to spare. The duo are joined tonight by blues guitarist Marc Silber, plus other musical friends.

Long-time Freight favorite (and our first board chair), Mayne Smith has been playing for decades at the Freight, where he became known as a spine-tingling Anglo-American country-style singer and as a dobro and pedal steel guitarist. Tonight, Mayne is joined by fiddler Ray Bierl as he revisits tradition and introduces originals with plenty of hot licks, delivering a wide range of American vernacular music. Ray and Mayne have maintained a fertile musical association since the late '60s, including membership in the extremely eclectic Alternate Roots Band.

Singer-songwriter and guitarist, Suzanne Fox is also a recent Freight board chair and probably our most recognizable public face: she's been night managing and doing the show announcements here for 15 years! Suzanne is also a wonderful singer and gifted songwriter, with material ranging from clever, quirky children's songs to biting political commentary. She's joined tonight by guitarist Eric Park (with whom she has appeared at the Freight as Park & Fox), who's known for playing a wide range of styles, from Elvis to Antonio Carlos Jobim, but usually centers around melodic fingerstyle guitar arrangements in the style of John Hurt.