Residing in Pacifica CA since 1991, Carmen has done many aspects of the music world. Recording, Engineering, Producing and Writing, In the recent years Carmen has pursued the joy of live entertainment. 2017 the CR Band is high energy modern blues. Carmen is back by a stable of the best blues / musicians in the SF peninsula
Generations of influences of blues masters, and rock legends are evident with Carmens attack.
An instrument like the harp doesn’t exactly inspire imagery of driving bass lines and mainstream appeal, and that’s what Bay Area based harpist, singer/songwriter Ella Dawn Jenkins, aka EllaHarp is working to change.
Armed with a fresh take on contemporary blues, the musical lineage of composer/arranger Gordon Jenkins, and a unique instrument she designed for the purpose, EllaHarp is taking the harp out of type-cast genre constraints and doing things differently.
