On November 1st, Bayview 109 in Redwood City hosted the Las Pulgas Big Band. The Las Pulgas Band is an 18 piece big band led by Claire Curry. Las Pulgas sounded FANTASTIC! They are a truly professional outfit. They feature two different singers. Their repertoire was very eclectic, featuring jazz bnd standards from the 1940’s, as well as …
I was honored to be asked to lead a community dance at the Cave Degree Weekend in Yreka in early September, and delighted to get as many participants as we did. The weekend was nicknamed “Odd Con”, and of course the dance was the Odd Ball. There were about 50 people in and out of the …
On July 13th, 2025. Bayview Lodge 109 hosted the Grateful Dead cover band “One Man Gone” in our main hall, from 2-6 pm. Opening for One Man Gone was the folk duo “Redwood Souls”. We had about 90 attendees for the event. The band sounded great, and people really had a blast. As an added, …
On Saturday, July 25th, we had over 50 attendees come sing-a-long to the musical Hamilton alongside 15 performers for our Hamiltunes event with Harmony Werks, Inc. Nicole Ennen is on the board of HarmonyWerks, Inc. – a Silicon Valley based nonprofit offering informal training and performance opportunities that help strengthen relationships and build communities by sharing our love of …
Patrick Landeza Presents, produced a Hawaiian concert on Father’s Day at our Cupertino Lodge. With over 80 in attendance, everyone enjoyed a meal that Patrick made plus top notch Hawaiian entertainment by Kupaoa (Lihau and Kellen Paik), from the island of Kauai and Mark Yamanaka, from the big island. Accompanying the musicians were many of …
On June 25th, we held our second Cupertino and True Fellowship Kanikapila – Burger Fry, at the Cupertino Lodge. This event combined the Hawaiian music from Cupertino and the monthly True Fellowship burger bbq. It was great working with the True Fellowship team in running the event. Our attendance wasn’t that great, so we’ll need …
A dream come true often looks like an experiment, where we try something we have never done before in hopes that we get better results than what had been happening before. In the case of Cupertino Lodge no. 70’s Kanikapila and True Fellowship Lodge no.52’s Burger Fry: four times this year we were scheduled to …
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On March 9th, 2025′, the Bayview 109 Lodge in Redwood City, hosted the band “One Man Gone”. O.M.G. is a Grateful Dead tribute band, located on the SF Peninsula. We had been eagerly wanting to have a concert at our lodge, on the heels of our successful singer-songwriter concert which we hosted in November. We …
True Fellowship no.52 and Cupertino no.70 have been cooking up a plan for music, dance, and juicy hamburgers for the last few months: and it all finally came together at the February Kanikapila hosted by Cupertino Lodge no.70! Noble Grands Jim Kabbage and Andrew Crockett reached agreement that instead of running events in competition with …
–By Steven Koehler Hello Odd Fellows, Etc……. On March 9th, from 3-6 pm. Bayview Lodge 109 will host the Grateful Dead cover band “One Man Gone”. We are charging a mere $20 for the event ($25 at the door). We are also providing very reasonably priced drinks and snacks. Our November 9th concert was …