Hall of Fame

2025 Inductees

Dave Segal’s love of jazz and blues came very early. Starting at age five and on, he listened to every genre of music, favoring the artist Taj Mahal the most. Dave learned to play various instruments through his school years, played in high school bands, and volunteered at the UC Davis campus radio station KDVS 90.3. This led to his hosting the show “Buried Alive in the Blues”, Saturday mornings from six to nine, is streamed and has been ongoing since 2001. 

By becoming a jam host in such places as the Stoney Inn, Dave joined the band Spotted Dog. It was at a Vega’s jam in Old Sacramento that Dave picked up a bass and took host Stan Alves’ advice to sing. It was also through Stan that Dave met Paris Clayton, Tim Barnes, John Noxon, and the two drummers he has worked with the most since then, Kirk Hooper and “Ratatat Pat” Balcom. 

Dave became a jam host at the Elk Grove Sports bar, Louie’s and the famous Torch Club, where he continues to hold down his position every Sunday, including the Sacramento Blues Society’s “Blue Sunday” event.

In addition to hosting the Torch jam, Dave has a busy playing schedule, playing under his own name with Chrissie O’Dell and The Real Deal, Dave Croall and the Soothers, The Steve Kimball Blues Band, and with the Sacramento Indie-rock band The Hard Knock Daddies. 

Dave appeared on studio and live recordings with such notables as Red’s Blues, the Dave Earl Band, the Tim Noxon Blues Band, and Two Tone Steiny and the Cadillacs, as well as numerous festivals throughout the region.

Stan lived in Sacramento most of his life, with the exception of two years in Manila when his father Robert was the director of mathematics volunteers in the Peace Corps. Stan graduated from high school from Hiram Johnson at age 16, and as he evolved into an adult, his music career also evolved, playing the guitar, writing music, singing in bands and teaching many others.

In addition to singing and playing guitar, Stan afforded other musicians that joy by doing the “grunt” stuff. He hauled P/A systems to gigs; provided instrument/amp backlines; transported other musicians; did stage management; organized talent; and conducted many other strategies for making the “music-magic” happen. 

Stan served the Sacramento Blues Society (SBS) for ten years creating scores of musical events, as well as a stint as President. He was involved in the SBS Blues In The Schools (BITS) programs, along with raising funding to send musicians to represent SBS at the International Blues Challenge (IBC) in Memphis, TN. Stan helped organize and raise funds for the SBS Gene Chambers Musicians Crisis Fund, directed stage management of Mike Balma’s Heritage Festival, and supported and encouraged aspiring musicians like Kyle Rowland and Dana Moret by bringing them up on stage to perform in their younger years. Stan always said his favorite gig was playing for the Homeless at the Sacramento Loaves and Fishes, which he did for nearly 30 years running. He was elated when his 90 something mother joined the crowd to see him play in public for one of her last Thanksgivings.

He played in numerous bands starting in the early 1970s including: The LuniTones, Badd JuJu, Equinox, Bone Jeli, The Goodtimes Friendship Park Orchestra, and the Dear Friends Band.  He hosted a long-running and successful jam at Vega’s in Old Town Sacramento and was active in the annual Chalk It Up Festival, raising funds for Sacramento school programs. Stan opened for many well-known musicians including Elvin Bishop, Daniel Castro, Maria Muldaur, Guitar Shorty, Coco Montoya, and many others. 

He was most proud of his great band of brothers, The LuniTones with Rat-a-Tat Pat, Jerry Thomas and Paris Clayton and the many others who frequently joined them on stage. Paris made one of Stan’s happy ambitions come true by producing the LuniTone’s CD, A Little More Time, which is cherished by many who have a copy.

Bassist David Garrity has been a fixture of the Sacramento music scene for the past three decades. He has been a member of highly visible bands such as House of Stone, The Lewminators, The Mind Club, Rowdy Kate, Big Boss Graffiti, and recently The GenXer's. 

David’s path to playing the blues started in the late ‘80’s when he played in a couple of cover bands with fellow Hall of Famer Rat-a-Tat Pat Balcom. In 1992, Pat and David teamed up with another Hall of Famer, Lew Fratis, to form The Lewminators, a Blues- Rock power trio that recorded two albums and played hundreds of gigs. 

David won multiple “Sammies” (Sacramento Area Music Awards) with The Lewminators and The Mind Club as well as Critic’s Choice Award for Outstanding Bassist in 2008 as a member of Rowdy Kate. Over the years, the various bands David has been a part of have opened for the likes of Run DMC, Greg Allman, Edgar Winter, Elvin Bishop and KISS.

Wayne has been a music collaborator with Mick Martin since they were teenagers in a garage band, forming a partnership of a lifetime. After a few years of honing their skills, their band
Joshua played at the Fillmore and in 1981 Phil Givant, producer of the Sacramento Blues Festival, invited them to perform along with many well-known artists. It was at that time the
Blues Rockers was formed with Smith, Donna Procter, Ted Standcliff, Russ Skarsten & Martin, but it was short-lived as some of the members didn’t want to travel out of town.

Martin had witnessed how Wayne produced the early release of “Rocking the Blues” and a new career for Smith was born. Wayne went on to co-produce Martin’s next six CDs. Mick
said “Wayne truly was a ‘Blues Rocker’ in every sense but a stage musician. His ears, attention to detail and willingness to give the band members what they wanted resulted in an
enjoyably collaborative experience."

Word spread and Smith became a popular choice for many other local artists, including Ray "Catfish" Copeland, Screaming Dave Wright, Kyle Rowland and others. He did live production and mixing on Sally Katen's first three Blues for the Cure albums. He also acted as sound supervisor on Nan Mahon and Mick Martin's "History of the Blues"; stage production presented
at Harlow's in 2022.

Paul Vieira, son of drummer John P. Vieira, was instinctively drawn toward stage band and choir at Goethe Jr. High School  Paul played coronet in stage band - meanwhile he played drums at home in his first garage band. After graduation from Luther Burbank Senior High School in 1967, his musical pursuits had to be placed on hold while serving the United States Marine Corp.

Paul reunited with friends in 1970 and formed a four-piece hard rock band while still attempting to play drums, finally realizing drums were not his forte. Coincidentally, the bass player left the band and Paul was encouraged to play bass, which led to a fulfilling 52-year career.
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Over the years Paul has played with numerous well-known bands, affording him the honor of winning The Sammies (Sacramento Area Music Awards) as a member of The Soul Prophets; Two Tone Steiny and the Cadillacs, which was honored to represent The Sacramento Blues Society in the Internation Blues Competiton in Memphis, Tennessee; as the Bassist for The Sonny Boy Blues, and his own band Blue Soul. Paul continues to play bass with The RoomShakers and Tripple Threat Band.