Concerts for a Cause presents Dirty Cello Band

Combining virtuosic musicianship and a fiery taste for rock and roll, California-based ensemble Dirty Cello is renowned around the world for their energetic live shows and their remarkable ability to reinvent classical and modern music into a one-of-a-kind experience. With wild vocals and world-class cello playing, Dirty Cello is cello like you've never heard before, from down home blues and rock with a wailing cello to virtuostic stompin' Americana.  

The group is led by the vivacious cross-over cellist, Rebecca Roudman.  As a member of both the Oakland Symphony and the Santa Rosa Symphony, Rebecca is an experienced orchestral musician who has toured with orchestras to Brazil and throughout Europe.  She has premiered numerous classical and contemporary works, many of which were written for her. 

In a variety of venues, Rebecca has shared the stage with Carlos Santana, Elvis Costello, Joan Baez, George Clinton, Isaac Hayes and many more exciting musicians. Rebecca also performed on the soundtrack for the Bruce Willis film "Looper," and on the soundtrack for the Jeremy Renner film, "Kill the messenger."

But Rebecca and her Dirty Cello Band get your heart thumping and your toes tapping!  Combine the virtuosic wail of Jimi Hendrix, the sould of BB King, and the fire of Bill Monroe, and add a whole lot of cello, and you get the Dirty Cello Band.

"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 band plays every style imaginable, and does some fantastic covers. (Their rendition
of “Purple Haze” is incredible.) But what is most spectacular about them is hearing the depth of soul in Roudman’s playing—it goes beyond what most people would expect from the instrument. She plays it with so much heart, you’ll wonder why more bands don’t have a cellist." -- Good Times Santa Cruz

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