Benefit for Bread & Roses (http://www.breadandroses.org) which produces 800 free concerts a year around San Francisco Bay for people in retirement communities, hospitals, schools, prisons, etc.

According to Moonalice legend, the music scene in San Francisco has produced many greats who left us too soon. Bill Graham, Jerry Garcia, John Cippolina, and Bread & Roses' own Mimi Farina come to mind. Just two weeks ago we lost another titan of San Francisco music, Warren Hellman. Warren was our friend, partner and mentor. He demonstrated as no one before him ever had that San Francisco has the best free music in the world. A small part of his great legacy is that his crowning achievement, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, will live on . . . it will probably last longer than any of us, which seems like a good thing. We dedicate this show and this song (Slow Dance) to Warren. It was his song. He was our friend. We miss him.

According to Moonalice legend, tonight’s poster by Alexandra Fischer depicts Pumpernickle Moonalice, the juggling Moonalice who toured under the name “Bread & Roses”. Bread & Roses was a very special Moonalice in that she devoted her career to shows for old folks, hospitals, schools, prisons and other places where people don’t get out much. Given that her act was juggling balls that looked like flowers, that might have been a very good decision.

Shana Morrison sang Angel From Montgomery, And It Stoned Me, Into the Mystic and After Midnight.