LaRhonda Steele Family Band

LaRhonda Steele, the “First Lady of Portland Blues” and the Steele family band rock the Portland Waterfront every year. Annual favorites at Portland’s premier Blues Festival,  the Steele Family members, together and individually, infuse Northwest festival and stage performances with passion, energy, and power. On their first tour to California, the Band joins forces with Bay Area musicians to bring Ripon Arts League an exhilarating evening of Blues, Gospel, Soul, and Jazz, the musical heritage of America’s Black community.

Music is everywhere in the lives of the Steele family. For LaRhonda, Mark, and daughters Lauren “Lo” and now East-Coast based Sarah, working through music phrasing as they go about their day, writing songs, harmonizing at home, and performing for the public has always been their way of life.

As Oregon Music Hall of Fame’s Norman “The Boogie Cat” Sylvester says of the Steeles, ”They are just phenomenal. The expression of…