Redwood Coast Music Festival, Eureka CA

Featured Artist Steve Lucky & The Rhumba Bums Featuring Miss Carmen Getit Friday Oct 2, 2026 5:00pm - Eureka Theater - Steve Lucky's Hammond Cheese Combo opens for Steve Lucky & The Rhumba Bums Featuring Miss Carmen Getit - Special Guest - Sax Gordon 8:00pm - Historic Eagle House - Steve Lucky & The Rhumba Bums Featuring Miss Carmen Getit Saturday Oct 3, 2026 12:00pm - Veteran's Memorial - Steve Lucky & The Rhumba Bums Featuring Miss Carmen Getit - Special Guest - Sax Gordon 5:00pm - Eureka Theater - Redwood Coast Blues Revue with Duke Robillard, Dennis Gruenling, Steve Lucky, Carmen Getit, Tommy Harkenrider & the Memphis Kings, Ron Dziubla, Jim Jedeikin 7:45pm - Historic Old Town - Gazebo Stage - Steve Lucky & The Rhumba Bums Featuring Miss Carmen Getit Sunday - Oct 4, 2026 1:30pm - Adorni Waterfront Center - Steve Lucky & The Rhumba Bums Featuring Miss Carmen Getit - Special Guest - Sax Gordon More Info: rcmfest.org. We're excited to welcome one of the world's most celebrated Jump blues/swing bands Steve Lucky & the Rhumba Bums Featuring Carmen Getit here in 2026! Steve Lucky and Miss Carmen Getit are the dynamic frontmen of Steve Lucky & The Rhumba Bums, a San Francisco–based jump-swing band celebrated for their superior musicianship, high-energy performances, witty banter and mastery of swing, jazz, blues, and R&B. Described as “instant crowd favorites” by the San Francisco Blues Festival and “consummate musicians and entertainers” by Lincoln Center, they have the ability to turn any audience into a dancing crowd. Born in Seattle and raised near Detroit, Steve Lucky started playing piano at age eight and was playing and singing professionally by the time he was thirteen. He founded and led the six-piece Blue Front Persuaders through the ‘80s, playing swing, jump-blues, and ‘40s and ‘50s R & B, while living in Ann Arbor and attending the University of Michigan. In 1987 Lucky moved to New York City to play keyboards for Grammy award-winning guitarist and vocalist Johnny Clyde Copeland. During the next five years he was active in the Greenwich Village music scene, was hired to score performance art and theater, and performed with a diverse group of musicians including Joan Osborne, Blues Traveler, and the Spin Doctors. Sticking to his musical roots, Lucky formed his own band in New York City working the nightclubs and touring throughout Europe. In 1993 he moved to San Francisco and started the Rhumba Bums as a quintet, but admits the band really took shape in ‘94 with the addition of Miss Carmen Getit on vocals and guitar. In Carmen's powerful vocals, one can hear echoes of her idols Ruth Brown, Etta James, and Dinah Washington. Miss Getit is a dynamic performer and versatile vocalist, interpreting "slick jazz a la Dinah Washington" or shouting down-and-out blues. In 1998 she recorded a critically acclaimed release with the Rhumba Bums, Come Out Swingin'!, earning four stars in both Downbeat and Blues Access Magazines and accolades from the press. Getit is recognized for her more swinging styles in Guitar Player Magazine as "smooth and steady," and her grittier blues playing in Experience Hendrix Magazine, where Frank-John Hadley calls Getit "one of the most striking young blues guitarists in the country."