Album Notes

Kentucky girl Gayle Schmitt and the Toodala Ramblers have just released a new bluegrass and old time music CD for kids. Gayle teaches music/movement classes for children in San Francisco and has long included bluegrass and traditional songs in her teaching and performing. Toodala -front porch favorites, features notable local musicians playing fun arrangements of favorite bluegrass and old-time tunes and includes two new original songs by Gayle.

Complete with banjo, fiddle, dobro, mandolin and some hot pickin' and pretty harmonies - the new disc is a treat for your ears! Listen to the scurrying squirrel and the river boat movin' on down the river, jump with the chorus of frogs, dance by the light of the moon with the buffalo gals Hey! How many biscuits can you eat?

Backing Gayle on the CD are the Toodala Ramblers, all members of other San Francisco bluegrass and old time bands:

Rick Hendricks - Dobro (Belle Monroe and the Brewglass Boys)
Chad Clouse - Fiddle (Lost Weekend, Due West, David Grisman)
Elise Engelberg - Fiddle (Von Trout Family Singers)
Debbie Berne - Old-time Banjo
Tom Drohan - Bass (Belle Monroe, Shut-Ins, Chazz Cats)
Jordan Klien - Banjo - (Ho'Down Quartet, Belle Monroe)
Ted Silverman - Mandolin (West of Kentucky, Belle Monroe, Chazz Cats)
Charley Casey - Dobro (The Chazz Cats)
John Kornhauser - vocal harmony (Dark Hollow)