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Rudy Macias Orchestra Contact:
Rudy Macias |
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| Bio: The Rudy Macias Orchestra plays a combination of Latin jazz, cumbias, salsa, big band and Mexican music. | |
| Instrumentation: 3 Trumpets, 2 saxophones, timbales, drums, congas, bass, keyboards and vocals. | |
| Number of musicians: 7-12 |
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Ashley Maher Contact:
Ashley Maher |
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| Bio: Ashley Maher is a singer/songwriter whose music is fused with the rhythms and textures of West Africa and Latin America. Ms. Maher's concerts range from a capella vocals with guitar to big-global-band featuring West African dance. | |
| Instrumentation: Voice, two backing vocals, guitar, bass, drums and percussion. | |
| Number of musicians: 2-10 |
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Ric Mandell Contact:
Ric Mandell |
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| Bio: Ric Mandell plays jazz and R&B specializing in jazz standards, as well as original, ethereal compositions. | |
| Instrumentation: Piano, bass, drums, saxophone, trumpet and guitar. | |
| Number of musicians: 1-8 |
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Mariachi Plata Contact:
Everardo Sandoval |
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| Bio: Mariachi Plata's leader Everardo Sandoval has been performing traditional mariachi music for over 35 years when he began in Tijuana, Mexico playing alongside a young Carlos Santana. Before starting his own band, Sandoval performed with other prestigious mariachi groups and appeared on the legendary Ed Sullivan Show. | |
| Instrumentation: Bass guitar, vihuella (rhythm guitar, violin(s), trumpet(s) and guitar. | |
| Number of musicians: 3-8 |
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Bobby Matos and his Afro Latin Jazz Ensemble Contact:
Bobby Matos |
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| Bio: Percussionist and arranger Bobby Matos combines Afro Latin rhythms with jazz harmony. His dance-inspiring improvisation is highly percussive. | |
| Instrumentation: Piano, bass, conga drums, bongos, timbales, hand percussion, trombones (1-3), flute and tenor saxophone, alto and baritone saxophone, vocalists, bata drums, shekere and guiro. | |
| Number of musicians: 4-14 |
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Jeff Mikusky Trio Contact:
Jeffrey Mikusky |
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| Bio: Jeff Mikusky's piano trio plays styles ranging from jazz and funk, to salsa and Latin jazz. Horn players or singers are available as needed. | |
| Instrumentation: Piano, bass, drums, with possible trumpet, saxophone and/or vocalist. | |
| Number of musicians: 3-6 |
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Mojácar Contact:
Stephen Dick |
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| Bio: Mojácar is guitarist Stephen Dick, flamenco dancer Katerina Tomás, and multi-instrumental percussionist Fernando Diez. Together they present contemporary flamenco music and dance in the newest traditions from Spain. | |
| Instrumentation: Guitar, percussion and flamenco dancer. | |
| Number of musicians: 3-5 |
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Moondance Contact:
Phil Cantor |
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| Bio: Moondance specializes in swing, jazz, big band and the best of the great American songbook. Veteran live performers, they can customize their repertoire for concert settings as well as dance events. | |
| Instrumentation: Guitar, bass, drums, keyboards, saxophone, trumpet, trombone, and male and female vocals. | |
| Number of musicians: 5-12 |
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Jim Morris Band Contact:
Jim Morris |
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| Bio: Jim Morris' jazz vocabulary ranges from easy listening to Dixie, from swing to popular music. A classically trained trombonist, his versatility is illustrated by his performances with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Mantovanni, as well as in big bands and rock & roll lineups. | |
| Instrumentation: 2 trumpets, french horn, tenor trombone, bass trombone/vocalins, piano, guitar, bass and drums. | |
| Number of musicians: 5-11 |
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Musica Angelica Contact:
Laura Spino |
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| Bio: Musica Angelica specializes in authentic, historically informed period instrument performances of music from the Renaissance and Baroque eras. Group sizes range from small chamber music ensembles to a Baroque orchestra of up to 25 members, choir and soloists. | |
| Instrumentation: Violin, viola, violoncello, viola da gamba, lute, flute, oboe, bassoon, horn, trumpet, timpani, organ | |
| Number of musicians: 2-50 |
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Musicantica Contact:
Enzo Fina |
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| Bio: Musicantica performs music from the oral tradition of Mediterranean Italy. Musicantica believes in the continuation of the musical tradition as a living experience filtered and shaped by everyday life occurrences. Central to the music is the performance of the "pizzica," the ancient tarantella used to heal the malady of the bite of the tarantula spider. | |
| Instrumentation: Guitars, frame drums, Sardinian reed clarinets, bouzouki, mandolin, mandola, jaw's harps, friction drums, harmonica, assorted percussions, fina (elaboration of the African 'mbira), bull roarers, homemade noise makers, clappers, castanets and flutes. | |
| Number of musicians: 2-7 |
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