Roots 66 Music

Cliff Feldman

Cliff got his musical start as a teenager in Tucson, Arizona where he was a classmate of Linda Ronstadt’s. Starting out as a drummer, an early band “The Syndicate” was well known in Tucson, and was heard on local radio shows.

Switching to guitar and vocals, his next band was “Central Heating” with fellow University of Arizona schoolmates including famed Old West historian Bob Boze Bell. Central Heating did the newest and most difficult material possible from the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and the like. They regularly opened for another struggling band from Phoenix, The Spiders, who would become Alice Cooper.

After moving to northern California, Cliff formed the group, “Occasional Rain” with co-DJ’s from San Jose’s KOME Radio. This band performed an eclectic mix of his original tunes and covers of obscure English progressive groups.

He moved to Santa Cruz in 1984 and founded Roots 66 in 2005. Cliff also plays in the original music band Dead Men Rocking.

Robin Ellison

Keyboard and Lead vocals
Robin Ellison has been playing and singing in bands since the tender age of 15 when she was lucky enough to be in one of the San Jose area’s most popular bands of the late 60’s (The Grapes of Wrath). It was in this band that she had the privilege of meeting and playing gigs with Fritz, Stevie Nicks and Lindsay Buckingham’s band.

She went on to play in many other bands including an all-original band, Bender, which opened for the Neville Brothers and Steven Bishop. She adds keyboards and acoustic guitar to her singing talents and helps round out the Roots 66 sound. Some of Robin’s early musical heroes are Linda Ronstadt and Steven Stills and she considers Bonnie Raitt to be among the elite.

Glenn Morse

Glenn first picked up a pair of drumsticks at age 8. He honed his chops playing in garage bands during high school in Modesto, CA. After graduating, he joined a popular Top 40 band called New York Connection. Their many gigs throughout the San Joaquin Valley in the early 2980s included opening for Elvin Bishop.

Glenn spent a couple of years playing mainly with the power trio The Karey Doolin Band, who did original music. After moving to the Bay Area Glenn anchored the rhythm section for The Crybaby Band, and oldies cover group.

Glenn relocated to Washington Sate in the late 1980s, where he played drums for the Olympia-based original band Brave New World.

He moved to Santa Cruz in 1995 and has played in numerous cover and original groups, including Dueling Julies, Torpedo, and The Juvenators.

Glenn adds experience, versatility, some vocals, and a sold backbeat to make him the ideal drummer for Roots 66

Steve McCampbell

Lead Guitar and vocals
By the end of high school, Steve was playing and singing along to about half of the Beatles catalog. Then it was on to southern and classic rock, rockabilly, blues and jazz. An adept and intuitive player, Steve credits Robben Ford, Terry Haggerty, Larry Carlton, Brian Setzer, George Benson and “Brothers” Duane & Dicky as his biggest guitar influences.

Steve has worked in various South Bay and Santa Cruz area bands the last 18 years and has had the pleasure of jamming with Terry Haggerty (Sons of Champlin) and Grant Geisman (Chuck Mangione Band). When not playing with Roots 66, Steve plays with Santa Cruz area band Wredhorse.

Marvin Labrie

Bass guitar
After arriving from Sacramento where he was a guitarist in the popular New Wave band Kicks, Marvin has been active in the Santa Cruz music scene since 1986 when he helped form The Meltdowns, winners of the Good Times Best Band award. He later played with Ishmael Huggins in Sensible Shoes and Billy Petrone in Monkey Man, both hard working ska bands and long time Santa Cruz favorites. He has more recently filled bass duties with The Koz, Wredhorse, FamDamily, The Mofongo Mardi Gras Band, and several other Santa Cruz area groups.
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