Loe & the Nastys' original music fuses the improvisation of jazz, the structure of popular music, and the conversation of group interplay. They draw their influence from Roy Hargrove, Thelonious Monk, Gretchen Parlato, and Jobim. Featured on youtube.com and Yahoo!News as soundtracks for Grammy artist Phil Hanson, the group was also named Editor's Pick on […]
Described by the New York Times as 'An Imaginative Artist', Chilean musical sensation, Viviana Guzman, pools from her Latin roots, and performs an array of music spanning from Classical, Traditional World music and original compositions. A graduate of the Juilliard School, Viviana began her musical training at the age of 5 and performed 5 times […]
The Misson Arts & Performance Project (MAPP) is a FREE bimonthly festival that happens the first Saturday of every other month. Join us for this Saturday, April 7th! Performance Program: 6pm - "The ItCH" - Investing in the Creative Hunch (Social-Cultural networking) 7:15pm - Tom Sway (Writer of Remarkable Songs) 7:42pm - Adrian Arias presents […]
Internationally renowned saxophonist/composer/educator Dayna Stephens, is a force to watch out for. A fluid, vigorous soloist with a warm, soulful sound, Dayna has also proven himself a master of composition and arrangement, a highly acclaimed band leader and an “in-demand” side-man for some of Jazz’s contemporary masters, such as Kenny Barron, Idris Mohammed, Taylor Eigsti. […]
Agapi Mou, quite simply, is a group of four musicians drawn together by their common love of Greek traditional music. They chose the name "Agapi Mou" (meaning "my love" in Greek) to symbolize the love they feel for the music and the passion with which they play it. Formed three years ago, in Berkeley, CA, […]
Allison Lovejoy is a concert pianist, composer and chanteuse whose exciting and unique performances inspire and delight audiences. Exquisite interpretations of Ravel and Rachmaninov are intermingled with her original cabaret and theatre compositions. This program features guest artists Zotan DiBartolo, Michelle Jasso, Alexis Lane Jensen singing selections from the cabaret musicals "The Seven Deadly Pleasures" […]
A complete departure from his previous work, trumpet/composer Darren Johnston (The Nice Guy Trio, The Darren Johnston Quintet), has formed the Broken Shadows, an earthy, rootsy ensemble, although the roots from which they stem are difficult to pin down. They feature Johnston on vocals over danceable grooves, horn solos, the intensely rhythmic and adventurous bass […]
LULACRUZA is an electronic folk duo operating at the junction of the hypermodern and the ancient. Their music weaves together hypnotic female singing, South American instruments, found sound objects, field recordings and electronic manipulation. Lulacruza is made up of Alejandra Ortiz (Colombia) and Luis Maurette (Argentina). Alejandra is an extraordinary songbird and plays the Colombian […]
Award winning artist - Fared Shafinury - unearths and explores the world of classical Persian music. From a small sleepy beach town along the Gulf of Mexico, Shafinury's musical sense crosses barriers with mutual cultural ease. His compositions thus move against the current, by retracing the arc from West to East. This is what makes […]
The Ochs Shelton Quartet features Larry Ochs and Aram Shelton on saxophones, Scott Walton on bass and Kjell Nordeson on drums. Co-led by two like-minded saxophonists from different generations, this quartet is a kinetic meeting of four diverse & internationally recognized musical talents who have longtime associations with the likes of ROVA, John Zorn, Nels […]