Come feast your ears and kick up your heels as a dazzling lineup of musical friends graces our stage to help celebrate the Freight's 40th anniversary! Singer-songwriter Phil Marsh headlines this evening's event, which also features a set by Hank Bradley, plus other musical cohorts from the good old Cleanliness and Godliness Skiffle Band days, including Brian Voorheis.

Phil sang and picked his guitar with the Cleanliness and 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. Since those days, Phil re-located to New York City where he works as a club and studio performer. Phil returns to his Berkeley origins tonight as he ranges from folk and country to blues and great originals.

Well-known to old-time music aficionados, Seattle-based Hank Bradley was one of the Skiffle Band's founding members. The Washington state fiddle champion for 1974, Hank is an eclectic musician with awesome chops on a staggering number of instruments in just as many genres. His Blue Ridge style fiddling can be heard on collections from Vanguard, Folkways, Kicking Mule, and numerous others. He has also played driving cafe orchestra music with Cathie Whitesides, Croatian tamburitsa and violin with Ruze Dalmatinke of Seattle, and violin and bouzouki at various Greek community functions.

The evening ends by taking off into the stratosphere, as Phil and Hank bring down the house with a reunion of Cleanliness and Godliness Skiffle Band members, including guitarist and harmonica ace Brian Voorheis, Will Scarlett (because you can never have too many harmonica aces), bassist Richard Saunders, and guitarist Gary Salzman, plus special mystery guests!