Duvall Dark Stars
October 26, 2025 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Join us for a special FREE live music event organized by Bill Roman, featuring musicians with ties to Duvall, past and present, that you may not know well as they tend to hide in recording studios. Lucky for us, they occasionally come out to perform!
Jerry Stalder is a songwriter, singer, and multi-instrumentalist who lived somewhere in the hills north of Cherry Valley back in the ’80s. Through an unlikely but fortunate chain of musical acquaintances he met Duvall’s somewhat notorious bass player Bill Roman, who at the time lived in a cabin near Lake Margaret. That cabin was the scene of a lot of songwriting and home recording. Jerry has since moved back to where he grew up in eastern Washington, and has continued writing, performing, and recording. He and Bill have maintained their musical association over the years and across the miles, and are finally getting together as a duo to perform some of Jerry’s old and newer songs as well as a few covers from artists as diverse as Neil Young and Led Zeppelin.
Rick Ravenscroft is a singer, songwriter, and guitarist who lived just across the valley from Duvall in the ’70s and hasn’t strayed too far away since then. Inspired by friends he began playing guitar, singing and writing and has been improving these skills ever since. With influences such as the Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, and Gram Parsons, he writes beautifully crafted songs full of love, longing, hope, and the joys and sorrows of living.
Rick has been playing with his current trio for over two decades. It began with amazing pianist Steve Berman, who has played with Rick for even longer than that. Bill Roman encountered Rick through strange synchronicity in the early years of this century, wandering into the old P&G Speakeasy Cafe during off hours and finding no one in there but the owner Paula and Rick playing guitar and singing for her with the hope of booking a gig. He got the gig – and a bass player. They will be playing some of Rick’s more recent songs that will be on his forthcoming CD, and probably some of the group’s favorite covers.
Free and open to all ages!
