Name: DAYNA KURTZ • VICKI RANDLE
Start: 2025-10-30T19:30:00
End: 2025-10-31T01:00:00
Location: Ivy Room

IVY ROOM PRESENTSTHURSDAY OCT 30THpartially seated—<h2>Dayna Kurtz</h2><h2>VICKI RANDLE</h2>—7:00 pm doors / 7:30 pm showADV TIX AVAILABLE—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Avenue, Albany • 21+<h2>DAYNA KURTZ</h2>—Over the past decade, the New Jersey born, now New Orleans (and seasonal Vermont) resident vocalist/writer/musician/producer has been bestowed with many awards and praises, including being named the Female Songwriter of the Year by the National Academy of Songwriters. Norah Jones and Bonnie Raitt have raved about her in interviews, and she’s performed on such high-profile radio shows as World Cafe, Mountain Stage and NPR’s Morning Edition and Tell Me More. She’s toured and opened for the likes of Elvis Costello, Richard Thompson, Mavis Staples, Rufus Wainwright, B.B. King, Dr. John, Richie Havens, Keren Ann, Chris Whitley, and the Blind Boys of Alabama.<h2>VICKI RANDLE</h2>—Randle was born in San Francisco, California. She began her career as a singer-songwriter/guitarist, playing in such venues as the Bla-Bla Cafe, McCabe's and The Ice House. She also recorded and toured with several women's music artists, such as Cris Williamson, Ferron, June Millington and Linda Tillery.She has recorded and/or toured with Aretha Franklin, Mavis Staples, George Benson, Lionel Richie, Kenny Loggins, Celine Dion, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Branford Marsalis, Jeffrey Osborne, Laura Nyro and Lyle Mays. She appeared in the HBO documentary Mavis!.Randle became the first female permanent member of the Tonight Show Band with Branford Marsalis, starting in May 1992 and continuing through May 2009. She continued her association with Jay Leno under his five-nights-a-week primetime The Jay Leno Show on NBC as a musician with Kevin Eubanks' renamed "Primetime Band". The show premiered September 14, 2009. She returned to The Tonight Show with Jay Leno with the primetime show's cancellation on February 9, 2010, and continued until May 2010.In 2006, Randle released her first solo album titled Sleep City: Lullabies for Insomniacs. The album was produced by Bonnie Hayes and included Hayes, Cris Williamson Nina Gerber, Barbara Higbie, Teresa Trull, Linda Tillery, Freddie Washington, Herman Matthews, Stephen Bruton with a track produced by Val Garay.Randle plays in Skip the Needle, an Oakland-based queer female quartet that fashions punk, funk, and soul-influenced rock they call "Black Dyke Rock." She is also a part of Greg Loiacono's band Stingray and has toured with the MC5, which was led by the late guitarist Wayne Kramer and featured singer Brad Brooks, guitarist Stevie Salas, and drummer Winston Watson.

DAYNA KURTZ • VICKI RANDLE