# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Jim Kweskin & Friends at Mercury Theater, Petaluma
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 14 Feb, 2026 at 07:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Jim Kweskin
with Suzy Thompson and Matthew Berlin
Saturday February 14 at 7:30pm
Tickets: https://app.arts-people.com/?show=311943

A night of folk music with Jim Kweskin, featuring Suzy Thompson on fiddle & Matt Berlin on bass.

Kweskin is the founder of the legendary 1960s Jim Kweskin Jug Band with Fritz Richmond, Geoff Muldaur, Maria Muldaur, Mel Lyman and Bruno Wolfe. During the five years they were together, they successfully transformed the sounds of pre-World War II rural music into a springboard for their good-humored performances. Their imitators were legion, including a San Francisco jug band that became the Grateful Dead, a Los Angeles jug band that became the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, and a New York jug band that became the Lovin' Spoonful. No other group attained their unique blend of youthful energy and antiquarian expertise, tight musicianship, loose camaraderie, and infectious swing. 

These days Jim is best known as a singer and bandleader, but he also created one of the bedrock guitar styles of the folk revival, adapting the ragtime-blues fingerpicking of artists like Mississippi John Hurt and Pink Anderson to the more complex chords of pop and jazz. He has maintained a remarkably consistent musical vision since his jug band days, continuing to explore traditional folk and blues with the sophisticated sensibility of a jazz musician, and jazz with the communal simplicity of a folk artist. He has recorded many solo ventures, as a member of the U and I band, with band-mate Geoff Muldaur, with Samoa Wilson, with The Texas Sheiks as well as performing and recording with a wide variety of well-known musicians such as Maria Muldaur, John Sebastian, David Grisman, Cindy Cashdollar, Happy Traum, Meredith Axelrod, Juli Crockett and Samoa Wilson, to name a few.

More: 
www.mercurytheater.org
www.jimkweskin.com
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/petaluma/jim-kweskin-and-friends-at-mercury-theater-petaluma/200029615433919
- **Event Categories**: music, entertainment, art, performances, live-music, theatre, pop
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 14

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Petaluma
- **state**: CA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Mercury Theater
- **lat**: 38.259263355123
- **long**: -122.66018092632
- **full address**: Mercury Theater, 3333 Petaluma Boulevard North,Petaluma, California, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Jim Kweskin & Friends at Mercury Theater, Petaluma being held?
  - **A:** Jim Kweskin & Friends at Mercury Theater, Petaluma takes place on Sat, 14 Feb, 2026 at 07:30 pm to Sat, 14 Feb, 2026 at 07:30 pm at Mercury Theater, 3333 Petaluma Boulevard North,Petaluma, California, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Jim Kweskin & Friends at Mercury Theater, Petaluma?
  - **A:** Jim Kweskin & Friends at Mercury Theater, Petaluma is organized by Jim Kweskin.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** Jim Kweskin & Friends at Mercury Theater, Petaluma is ideal for live music fans, concert-goers, and anyone who enjoys unforgettable performances from their favorite artists in an electric live atmosphere. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Petaluma, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If Jim Kweskin & Friends at Mercury Theater, Petaluma sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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