Todd Sickafoose

Todd Sickafoose's Bear Proof, downstairs at Town Hall, Seattle, Washington, at the 2023 Earshot Jazz Festival. Left to right: Carmen Staaf (piano, seen from the back), Adam Levy (guitar), Jenny Scheinman (violin), Todd Sickafoose (bass), Allison Miller (drums), Rob Reich (accordion), Ben Goldberg (clarinet), Kirk Knuffke (cornet). Todd Sickafoose is an American jazz and rock musician, composer, and producer/engineer from San Francisco, California.

He is best known for playing acoustic bass and keyboards with Ani DiFranco but has also led his own group, Todd Sickafoose's Tiny Resistors.

Sickafoose has been a member of the bands of Jenny Scheinman, Scott Amendola, Adam Levy, Allison Miller, and Noe Venable. and John Zorn.

Sickafoose has produced three albums for Anaïs Mitchell – Hadestown (2010), Young Man in America (2012), and Hadestown Live Original Cast Recording (2017). He has also produced albums for Rupa & the April Fishes, Nels Andrews, and Mipso. Sickafoose also won a Grammy award as a co-producer of the Hadestown cast recording, which won Best Musical Theater Album in 2020. Sickafoose has also composed original music for the fourth season of the Peabody award winning podcast Threshold Podcast

At the age of 13 Sickafoose began playing double bass after seeing Edgar Meyer perform. He later studied with Charlie Haden

Critic Steve Greenlee of JazzTimes states Sickafoose's 2008 release Tiny Resistors is one of that "year’s most compelling listens." The CD also received positive reviews from NY Times and USA Today.

Discography Dogs Outside (Evander, 2000) Blood Orange (Secret Hatch, 2006) Tiny Resistors (Cryptogramophone, 2008) Bear Proof (Secret Hatch, 2023)