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La Dee Da have been actively charming weirdos and normies alike in the bay area/norcal music scene for nearly two decades. Being adept at genre-bending/blending as well as adapting to the nuances of performative context, they have collaborated and shared stages from large to minuscule with an absurd variety of musicians over the years.

The band's infectious tunes are delivered with a style and approach that is instantly recognizable yet eludes definition. Bandleader Rosie Steffy is a relentless hyper-connector in the arts community locally and regionally, a dynamo whose embrace reaches across generations, genres and cliques through a steady parade of multi-day festivals, street jams and intimate fondue/badminton parties.

bandcamp: ladeeda.bandcamp.com
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insta: www.instagram.com/ladeedaband/
email: ladeedaband@gmail.com
web: ladeeda.xyz

lyrics

GROTTO

Sometimes at Dusk
I leave this world
to swim in my pristine deep green grotto
There’s schools of fish
in starlit clouds
and seaweed swirling like a mermaid’s hair

We all need
a place to go
to swim in our pristine deep green sorrows
Where shadows play
upon the walls
mimicking the rising of our fears

CHORUS:
In darkened rooms
Self critical fingernails
Waste precious time
Picking at scabs
Burdened by love
Beyond our capacity
Afraid to give
Away all we have

If you were naked would you be as beautiful
As you’ve convinced us you are?

I’ll create
A giant butterfly net
So I can catch and comprehend your dreams
But when I’m there
Inside your head
Will you feel safe or vulnerable and mean?

CHORUS

credits

from Mixtape for Palestine, fundraiser for Middle East Children's Alliance for Peace (​$​25​-​125) / SCROLL DOWN to donate directly & get music, released January 1, 2024
Rosie Steffy: PIANO, VOCALS
Rebecca Kleinmann: FLUTE, VOCALS
Lewis Patzner: CELLO
Aaron Handler: UPRIGHT BASS, TRUMPET
Daniel "Fletch" Fleischer: DRUMS

Thomas Lehnartz: CLARINET
Nick Pojman: TROMBONE

Written and performed by La Dee Da
Wind Ensemble Arrangement by Thomas Lehnartz & La Dee Da

Recorded by Greg Ashley in Oakland, CA at the Creamery
Mixed by La Dee Da
Mastered by Shawn Hatfield

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seaweed sway San Francisco, California

SeaweedSway is a collaborative evolving project by Jessie Woletz & many incredible friends over the years, encouraging community through music gatherings especially.

The poem of "SeaweedSway" sprouted in a convo between Karl Blau & Jessie in 2007, when Karl opened for BrightBlack Morning Light at the Great American Music Hall. The music encouraged seaweed-like movement in the room.
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