CZU Remembrance and Recovery Gathering

Please join us at the Historic Brookdale Lodge for the third Annual CZU Remembrance and Recovery Gathering. Featuring live music from Sugar by the Pound, Pablo Eagle, and Vito and Friends. Everyone is welcome!

This event is an annual bonding opportunity for the Santa Cruz Mountains community three years after the CZU Lightning Complex Fire disrupted so many lives in August of 2020. Many are still homeless. The event also includes victimes of the winter storms of 2022/2023. 

1. Honoring the CZU Fire Community
2. Fire Risk Mitigation
3. Resources for disaster victims (CZU and Winter Storm Victims)
4. CZU Barn Raising
5. Food, Music, Merch

Live music from:

Sugar by the Pound
Boulder Creek's all-girl band features Alison Steel (banjo, vocals), Erin Valdivia (vocals, guitar), and Cristy Aloysi (vocals, mandolin). Sugar by the Pound sings folk songs in perfectly blended harmony and plays melodies with simple traditional chord progressions using only acoustic instruments. They compose their own material and cover some of the most richly nostalgic traditional music ever written. 

Pablo Eagle and Company
Peace, Love, and Rock-n-Roll! Pablo Eagle is a Boulder Creek local known for his soulful songwriting often paying homage to his Native American roots, and heartfelt rockin' covers. He is a mainstay in the Santa Cruz Mountains and all over Santa Cruz as the front man for the legendary band Medicine Road. Pablo Eagle & Company is Pablo Eagle from Medicine Road, Paul Stevens from the Dirt Rakers, Aardvark, Sebastian Hegenbart from Tiger's Tale, Jampico, and Waxi Meltdown.

Later into the evening:

Vito and Friends
Vito Dettore is an accomplished and well known San Lorenzo Valley blues guitarist. He and multi-instrumentalist Keith Graves formed Vito and Friends nearly two decades ago. Joined by Eric Gunn on drums and Frank Hatfield on harmonica, the band captivates with improvisational artistry, expressive groove, and unpretentious approachability. Deeply steeped in the Mississippi Delta sound with all the blue notes that grab your soul. 

"This year is going to be a bit different. The fire community is really struggling right now, many of us are still in emergency after three years. We now have new disaster victims from this winter who need our support just as much. There really isn't anything like your home being ripped from you. My hope and prayer is that those who didn't suffer this loss will never know what this journey is like. Let us come together as a community to get disaster victims back home where we belong so that we can start the process of healing from these tragedies." - Antonia Bradford, fire survivor and event coordinator

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