LAKEPORT, Calif. – Clean Sweep is playing a benefit dance concert for KPFZ, Lake County Community Radio, at 7 p.m. on Saturday, May 5, at the Soper Reese Theatre in Lakeport.

This is the culmination of KPFZ’s 10th anniversary celebration.

Clean Sweep mixes it up, and keeps people on the dance floor all night, with high energy music.

This seven-piece band, founded by lead vocalist and harmonica virtuoso Pat Gleeson, plays R&B, funk, blues and jazz. The band also features Keith Crossan on sax, Mikey Gymnaites on Guitar and vocals, and David Neft on keyboards. Rounding out the band are Joanie Lane on vocals and flute, Dave Falco on bass and John Sheridan on drums.

Pat Gleeson grew up in San Francisco and has played with John Cipollina, Nick Gravenitis, Tom Finn, John Lee Hooker, Sonny Rhoads, sax great Ben "King" Perkoff, bluesman Mississippi Fred McDowell and many others.

He founded Baluga Whale in the 1970s, and opened for Leon Russell. More recently, he started the band 62 Blues, which added members, branched out into funk, R&B, and jazz, and morphed into Clean Sweep in 2016.

Saxophonist Keith Crossan, a Bay Area fixture in the music world for decades, recently moved to Lake County. He has played with pretty much everybody who’s anybody: Elvin Bishop, John Lee Hooker, Huey Lewis, Lenny Williams, Robert Cray, Bonnie Raitt, Barry Melton, Lara Price, Joe Louis Walker, Del Shannon, Percy Sledge, Commander Cody, The Platters, Leslie Gore, Frankie Valli and Tommy Castro.

Crossan also toured and recorded with the KBC Band with famed Jefferson Airplane rockers Marty Balin, Paul Kantner and Jack Casady.

Crossan recorded 11 albums with the Tommy Castro Band, and recorded his own CD, “Beatnik Jungle,” a reference to North Beach in San Francisco, where the beatniks hung out in the 50’s, 60’s and beyond.

Michael (“Mr. Mikey”) Gymnaites grew up in Santa Barbara and is a vocalist and guitar virtuoso who has played with Chuck Berry, Bo Diddly, the Coasters and the Drifters. He has opened for Sly and the Family Stone. He played for many years in Los Angeles. He settled into the slower pace of Lake County in 2005, and brings an exhilarating style to the band.

Keyboardist David Neft (“The Piano Man”) is well known in Lake County, and has played with the Syndicate of Sound ("Hey Little Girl"), Blue Haz, and Bill Noteman and the Rockets, opening for B.B. King, Steve Miller, the Temptations and Tower of Power.
Vocalist/flutist Joanie Lane grew up in Sebastopol and has played with Taj Mahal, Merle Saunders, Jackson Browne and Juice Newton.

Lane started playing the flute when she was 9 years old. Encouraged by legendary folk singer Kate Wolf, while a teenager she began singing and playing guitar in coffee shops, and then began playing flute and singing backup in Sonoma County bands.

Bass player Dave Falco has played all over the state at numerous venues with several bands, including the Usual Suspects, Blue Haze and Bill Noteman and the Rockets.

Drummer John Sheridan is very talented and is the newest band member. Well-versed in all music genres, he brings 50 years of varied experience to the band and has melded in effortlessly.

This KPFZ (88.1 FM) benefit is co-sponsored by Joy Swetnam, Andre Ross, Shanda Harry, Jim and Olga Steele, Smiling Dogs Winery, Kaz Winery and Steele Wines.

The show is Saturday, May 5, at 7 p.m. There is reserved seating, and tickets are $22, $17 and $12, with a $2 discount for KPFZ members.

Tickets are available online at www.soperreesetheatre.com, at the Travel Center at 1265 S. Main Street in Lakeport, at the Soper Reese box office on Fridays, and at the door.

The Soper Reese Theatre is located at 275 S. Main St. in Lakeport.