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Lech Wierzynski is a perfect example of the kind of amazing things that can happen when a kid with a particular interest is surrounded by adults who support and encourage the exploration of said ...

The California Honeydrops call their sound "party music." The California Honeydrops began in 2007, when three Oberlin grads linked up to play obscure soul and blues music at the Ashby and Rockridge ...

This Oakland root-blues-soul quartet has a truly underground sound. In October 2004, Oberlin College graduates Lech Wierzynski and Nansamba Ssensalo moved to the Bay Area and began performing ...

The California Honeydrops aren’t trying to make old-time music sound new. Rather, the popular Bay Area quartet has turned into one of the region’s busiest roots bands by weaving blues, New Orleans ...

REVISIT AND REVISE: "I love old music, and I respect it a lot," says vocalist and trumpet player Lech Wierzynski. "But I always think, 'Hey, I'm probably going to do it a slightly different way.'" ...

With ease and a good deal of soul, the California Honeydrops’ third studio album remembers the group’s roots as a street band and contains the essence of the warm Californian sun. Based out of Oakland ...

With roots planted deep in the fertile soil of the American South, the California Honeydrops have weathered changes that would have swept away most other bands. Steeped in New Orleans R&B, Delta blues ...

”We’ve played basements, rooftops, warehouses, barns, backyards, campgrounds,” says Lech Wierzynski, rattling off all the funky Bay Area venues his California Honeydrops have survived. After four ...

The last time The California Honeydrops created a buzz in Arcata they took some of the sweet nectar of their performance with the Pimps of Joytime and included it on their recently released album ...

Even before he began learning English at a Chicago preschool, Lech Wierzynski, the Warsaw-born leader of Oakland's California Honeydrops, was memorizing and singing trumpet, trombone and clarinet ...