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"A captivating improviser, imaginative composer, and master of collaboration." - San Francisco Chronicle

"Ani DiFranco's secret weapon." - The New Yorker

A Bay Area native, Sickafoose spent some years in Los Angeles studying bass with Charlie Haden and composition with the great, late Mel Powell.  Since then, he's been recording and performing with a ton of innovative folks and genre benders including Ani DiFranco, Andrew Bird, Don Byron, Trey Anastasio, Jenny Scheinman, Nels Cline, Ron Miles, Myra Melford, Tin Hat Trio, Adam Levy, Skerik, Stanton Moore, Bobby Previte, Scott Amendola, Will Bernard, Stebmo, Jessica Lurie, Shane Endsley, Erin McKeown, Anaïs Mitchell, Gina Leishman, Carla Bozulich, Noe Venable, Etienne de Rocher, James Carney, Erik Deutsch, Tony Furtado, and Darol Anger.  

The consistency of his personal voice within wildly diverse collaborations prompted the LA Weekly in 2004 to call Todd "one of the most comprehensive musical minds of this coast".  Since 2005, Todd has been living in Brooklyn, NY.

   

     

    
some discography
    
TODD SICKAFOOSE  Tiny Resistors*  (2008)  
TODD SICKAFOOSE  Blood Orange*  (2006)
TODD SICKAFOOSE  Dogs Outside*  (2000)
      
ADAM LEVY  Loose Rhymes  (2006)
ADAM LEVY  A Nice Place To Live  (2007)
ANAIS MITCHELL  Music of Hadestown*  (2010)
ANDREW BIRD  Noble Beast  (2009)
ANDREW BIRD  Useless Creatures  (2009)
ANI DIFRANCO  Red Letter Year  (2008)
ANI DIFRANCO  Live at Babeville (DVD) (2008)
ANI DIFRANCO  Canon  (2007)
ANI DIFRANCO  Reprieve  (2006)
ANI DIFRANCO  Knuckle Down  (2005)
ANI DIFRANCO  Trust (DVD)  (2004)
ANI DIFRANCO  Live in Hamburg  (2008)
ANI DIFRANCO  Live in Boston  (2006)
ANI DIFRANCO  Live in Portland  (2004)
ANI DIFRANCO  Live in Rome  (2004) 
ANNIE KEATING  Belmont  (2008)
AJ ROACH  Dogwood Winter*  (2003)
ATOOSA  When the Cardinals Come  (2009)
BETH CUSTER  My Grandmother (film score)  (2005)
BRITTANY HASS  Brittany Hass  (2004)
CARLA BOZULICH  I'm Gonna Stop Killing  (2004)
CRATER  Proceed  (2005)
DAROL ANGER & MIKE MARSHALL  Woodshop  (2007)  
DAROL ANGER  Generation Nation  (2006)
DAROL ANGER  Republic of Strings  (2004)
DAVID AKE  Sound & Time  (1997)
DAVID BERKELEY  Strange Light  (2009)
EMMA  Emma*  (2009)
ERIN McKEOWN  Lafayette  (2007)
ERIN McKEOWN  Sing You Sinners  (2006)
ERIK DEUTSCH  Fingerprint  (2007)


    
ETIENNE DE ROCHER  Etienne de Rocher  (2005)
GINA LEISHMAN  In My Skin  (2007)
GUSTAVO AGUILAR  Dreaming with the Serpents (1998)
JAMES CARNEY  Thread  (2002)
JENNY SCHEINMAN  Live at Yoshi's  (2000)
JENNIFER TERRAN  Full Moon in 3  (2005)
JESSICA LURIE  Shop of Wild Dreams*  (2009)
JESSICA LURIE  Licorice and Smoke  (2005)
JOHN DAVERSA  Live at Catalina's  (2000)
JOHN ETTINGER  August Rain  (2003)
JOHN ZORN  Voices in the Wilderness  (2003)
JULIAN SUMMERHILL  The Hologram Cowboys  (2005) 
JUSTIN MORELL  Trio  (2003)
JUSTIN MORELL  Septet  (1999)
NELS ANDREWS  Off-Track Betting* (2008)
NELS ANDREWS  Dollar and a Dream 7"* (2006)
NOE VENABLE  Summer Storm Journals*  (2007)
NOE VENABLE  The World Is Bound By Secret Knots* (2003)
NOE VENABLE  Boots*  (2002)
NOE VENABLE  Down Easy  (2000)
REBECCA FANYA  Rebecca Fanya*  (2009)
ROBERT REIGLE  The Marraige Of Heaven & Earth (1999)
SCOTT AMENDOLA BAND  Cry  (2003)
SCOTT AMENDOLA BAND  Band  (2001)
STARS OF TRACK & FIELD  A Time For Lions  (2009)
STEBMO  Stebmo  (2008)
SURREALESTATE  Contrafactum  (2000)
TIN HAT TRIO  The Rodeo Eroded  (2002)
TONY FURTADO  Tony Furtado  (1999)
TREY ANASTASIO  Bar 17  (2006)
VIENNA TENG  World Café Live (DVD)  (2007)
WON IL  Asura  (1997)   
   
*produced by todd sickafoose