Charlie Burnham is one of Brooklyn's own musical treasures-- a fiddler, singer, and multi-instrumentalist renowned for the depth of his musicality and imagination, who over the course of five decades has collaborated with distinguished artists from Cassandra Wilson to Norah Jones to Wynton Marsalis to Living Color.
Jean Rohe is perhaps best known as the author of our nation’s next National Anthem Arise! Arise! and for her 2019 Independent Music Award winning release, Sisterly (Best Adult Contemporary Album). She has been stirring up trouble around the country with her unique brand of folk-songwriting-activism since before she could come in the front door of the bar.
Skye Soto Steele got his start playing fiddle in the subways after moving to N.Y.C. at 17, and has gone on to work with a rainbow of artists ranging from platinum singer-songwriter Vanessa Carlton to salsa legends Tipica Novel, in between self-releasing four albums of his own songs and touring independently across the US and Europe.
The three had been friends and collaborators for over a decade when the offer of a recording retreat from Looking Glass Arts in the Catskills spurred them to combine forces as never before to become... Eureka Shoes.
Rounded off by bass virtuoso Rashaan Carter, Eureka Shoes has a sound that is one part string quartet, two parts jazz combo, and soulful all the way down.