CLMF On Tour: Canada Lake Barge
July 19 @ 6:30 pm
Sunday, July 19th, 2026
6:30 pm
Canada Lake Barge
Free admission, donations appreciated!
A one-of-a-kind floating concert experience on Canada Lake. Featuring Jeff Picker, Eddie Barbash, and Mark Raudabaugh, this performance combines scenic beauty with adventurous, genre-crossing music. Lawn chairs encourage – minimal seating provided.
CLMF On Tour takes Caroga Lake Music Festival beyond Sherman’s Park, bringing performances to communities across the region. Featuring CLMF Resident Artists, these concerts bring live music to unique spaces throughout Fulton County and beyond.
Jeff Picker is an in-demand double bassist, bass guitarist, composer, and bandleader in Nashville, TN. Hailed as the “designated bassist to the stars,” (The Willamette Week) Jeff is a touring member of platinum-selling, genre-bending bluegrass band Nickel Creek (Chris Thile, Sara Watkins, Sean Watkins). He spent 5 years as a member of Grand Ole Opry star Ricky Skaggs’ band Kentucky Thunder. He appears frequently with artists and as a member of the staff band at the Grand Ole Opry.
Jeff has also appeared on over 50 records in styles ranging from bluegrass to country to jazz to Americana. He has performed or recorded with dozens of artists including East Nash Grass, Sarah Jarosz, Skip Ewing, The Infamous Stringdusters, Mark O’Connor, John Jorgensen, Tim O’Brien, and Jordan Tice.
In 2020, Jeff ventured into the role of composer and bandleader with his first solo album, “With the Bass in Mind,” which debuted at #13 on the Billboard Bluegrass chart. Hailed as “remarkable,” (Bluegrass Today) this collection of original compositions deftly weaves together Jeff’s formative training in jazz within his adopted home format of the bluegrass string band. His follow-up 2022 release, “Liquid Architecture,” co-produced by Viktor Krauss (Lyle Lovett), takes these sounds one step further, utilizing unique instrumentations and offering cinematic arrangements of soulful, genre-less melodies.
When not on tour, Jeff works extensively in and around Nashville, TN.
Hailed by Jon Batiste as “one of the world’s most important saxophonists,” Eddie Barbash was a founding member of the house band for the Late Show With Stephen Colbert and currently tours the world with Cory Wong and the Wongnotes. His unmistakable sound is featured on the Oscar and Grammy-winning soundtrack of Soul. He has performed at venues ranging from Carnegie Hall to Madison Square Garden to the Village Vanguard and has headlined both the Newport Jazz and Folk Festivals, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, and the Umbria Jazz Festival. Barbash’s versatile sound has led him to collaborate with musicians in many styles. At 18 he joined the sextet of legendary jazz drummer Chico Hamilton and the quintet of emerging jazz star Jon Batiste. In his 20’s he fell in love with American traditional music and began touring with bluegrass phenom Sierra Hull. He’s a frequent guest with funk band Vulfpeck and indie rocker Sam Evian. In 2016 he performed a duet on national TV with Yo-Yo Ma and in 2024 he performed the world premier of “Songs Of Nature,” a concerto for saxophone and choir by Pulitzer Prize winning composer Paul Moravec.
Nashville based drummer, Mark Raudabaugh, is a versatile and skilled musician who stays busy touring and recording. Mark has worked with Sierra Hull, Donna the Buffalo, Jim Lauderdale, Peter Rowan, Bernard Purdie, Jeff Coffin, Marcus King, Oliver Wood, Lee Fields, Nigel Hall, Lindsay Lou, Eddie Barbash, John Mailander, Seth Walker, Grant Green Jr., Kevin Scott, Kristina Train, Roosevelt Collier, Jimmy Hall, Jennifer Hartswick, Charles Walker and The Dynamites, Papa Mali, Bobby Lee Rodgers and The CodeTalkers, and many more.
He has also had the honor to sit in with Bela Fleck and The Flecktones, Zac Brown, Robert Randolph, Sam Bush, Keller Williams, Anders Osborne, Ketch Secor (Old Crown Medicine Show), Steve Kimock, Vince Herman (Leftover Salmon), and many more. Mark began playing drums while living in England during the early 90’s. After moving back to the States, he attended Gainesville High School in Gainesville, FL where he was involved in both the marching and jazz bands.
He later received a jazz scholarship to Florida State University where he studied under Leon Anderson Jr. During that time, he had the opportunity to perform with Wyclef Gordon, Ellis Marsalis, and Manuel Valera to name a few. Since graduating from FSU, Mark has toured throughout the US, Europe, Canada, Japan, and Bangladesh. When not on the road, Mark stays busy gigging/recording throughout the Southeast area.