Home The Band Shows Photos Music Contact Us Kat Bowden - Vocals, Mandolin & Percussion Kat is a student at UC Davis studying English and vocal performance. Though she is, by far, the youngest member of the band she has performed “classically” at prestigious venues such as Carnegie Hall, The Grand Ole Opry, and Lincoln Center. Recently, she has discovered her love for more “grounded” genres such as folk, blues, bluegrass, jazz and swing, performing with musicians such as Jamie Knapp, Rick Palkovic, Debbie Cox, and Goran Muhlert. When not singing, she can be found teaching voice, hiking and camping, or playing the guitar, mandolin, string bass, and percussion.   Richard Day - Guitar & Harmonica Richard has been playing guitar and harmonica in and around Davis since the early '90's. "Raised" primarily in the blues, he enjoys playing many styles of music. In the early to mid '90's, he gigged mostly with Dave Nachmanoff’s band, Dave & the Generators. For over a decade Richard could be heard gigging weekly with the Gary Lee Yoder band playing southern rock, country, folk, blues & Motown. Richard was also a frequent guest of local favorite Bill Scholer Blues band. In recent years, Richard turned his attention more towards jazz, performing live monthly with FJC (modern jazz) and the Bob Ratcliff Little Big Band (contemporary modern jazz). Not content to play one of style of music, these last few years Richard could also be found playing modern bluegrass harmonica with the West Nile Ramblers, jazzy guitar with Yolo Mambo (jazz, world music) and blues harp with various local blues bands. For "Frenchie Reechar," man-about-town, it's all good!   Johnny Flores - Drums & Hand Percussion Johnny has played with various musicians at venues in and around Davis, including Borders Books, Delta of Venus, Sudwerk Brewery, Davis Farmer's Market, Cafe Roma, and E Street Plaza. Johnny also performed with the UC Davis Jazz Ensemble and with the Davis band !Akimbo! at the Whole Earth Festival in Davis, the Oregon Country Faire, the Ashkenaz club in Berkeley and the Friday Night in the Park summer series in Sacramento. Johnny enjoys playing different styles of music from funk, jazz, and world beat to rock, reggae, and Latin.   Rob Gonzales - Bass & Vocals A veteran (ok, old guy) of the music scenes in NorCal and Colorado, Rob has found new energy and joy doing tunes with the great talents in Hardwater. Yeah, he's been at it for a while, with lots of folk, and it's all been fun. The 70’s & 80’s saw him doin’ the circuit with The Texas City Band, dressed in five different colored tuxedo shirts. He also currently heads Dropped Roses, and often has freelanced with Mike McGowan & the Mighty Delta Roadmasters, The Putah Creek Crawdads, Bill Scholer, Barry Melton, and others. Keeps things a little busy, but gosh, it’s all good. There’s a zone you can sometimes visit when partaking in the universal language of music. Rob loves getting there and all the surprises along the way.   Bob Lindley - Violin, Electric Mandolin, & Baritone Violin Bob has played styles from classical to folk to rock to jazz, drawing inspiration from each. After early classical violin training performing orchestral and chamber music, he made the jump to electric synthesized violin with the Pasadena-based fusion band "Mixt Fixion". Then, following a period of performing with acoustic folk-blues groups at UC Santa Cruz, he took up jazz studies with alto sax player Gary Foster of the Toshiko Akiyoshi, Lew Tabackin Big Band. For two years Bob produced a monthly jazz concert series at Clouds Gallery in Pasadena and performed there and elsewhere with his own quintet "Blue Tuna Road". While with Hardwater, he's added two new musical voices with the 5-string electric mandolin and the "octave" violin.   John Swann - Vocals & Guitar In the mid 70s John played guitar and sang in the "The Rentals" - a folk/rock band, lead by Glen McClughan and based in Victoria B.C. His biggest musical heroes growing up in the '60s were Jimi Hendrix, Joni Mitchell, and Frank Zappa. Following a long hiatus from performing, John has been active on the Davis music scene for the last 10 years. In addition to playing with Hardwater, he has performed at various times with folk artists Katie Henry, Ray Frank, and Laura Sandage of Mudlark, and has has also collaborated with guitarist / vocalist Andrew Corbett. Recently John has also added song-writing and bass playing to his musical endeavors.