“Attentive listeners, though, will be rewarded with their subtle variations on the jazz idiom and the splendor of their playing” - Robert Ham, Downbeat Magazine

“SHE IS THE LOGICAL CHOICE TO PROVIDE A NEXT STEP FOR HER INSTRUMENT IN THE WORLD OF JAZZ AND IMPROVISED MUSIC” - PAUL RAUCH ALL ABOUT JAZZ

As a musician and a flutist, Elsa’s sound reflects the sense of awareness and urgency of this generation. A generation that is more aware than ever of our self destruction, after decades of habitual planetary abuse which also happens to be what propelled us into the technologically inclined world we are in today. Her music imbibes the energy of Rock N Roll, the cadence of street protest, the visceral improvisations of Jazz and the compositional language of Classical music.

RECIPIENT OF THE 2022 CHAMBER MUSIC AMERICA NEW JAZZ WORKS GRANT FOR “PULSES”

WINNER OF THE 2018 NATIONAL FLUTE ASSOCIATIONS BI-ANNUAL JAZZ FLUTE COMPETITION

The Harmony House Van Ness is an intimate performance venue. Included in the ticket purchase will be appetizers, soft drinks, tea and coffee. We encourage you to bring your own wine. You know what you like . Doors are 7pm for a pre show get together.

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Graham Bonnet  is an English rock singer. He has recorded and performed as a solo artist and as a member of several hard rock and heavy metal bands including Rainbow, Michael Schenker Group, Alcatrazz, and Impellitteri. He is known for his powerful singing voice but is capable of also singing soft melodies.

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GRAMMY Award® winning jazz vocalist Sara Gazarek reigns as one of the most creative voices of her generation. Collaborating with jazz legends Fred Hersch, Billy Childs, Kurt Elling, and more,and with 6 critically-acclaimed albums under her belt at the age of 40, Gazarek often tours internationally as a soloist/band leader, and as a co-founder of the vocal collective, säje, whose debut album earned a GRAMMY Award® for Best Arrangement Instruments and Vocals.

Richard Lloyd Giddens Jr. hails from Fresno, CA. He moved to New York City at the age of 17 after receiving a full scholarship to the Jazz and Contemporary Music Program at The New School for Social Research. In 2000, he went on tour Off-Broadway show STOMP. Giddens has recorded and performed  with such artists as Charlie Haden, Wadada Leo Smith, Robert Glasper, Oscar Hernandez, Mary Halvorson, Ravi Coltrane, Larry Goldings, Walter Smith III, Ralph Alessi, Gilbert Castellanos, Ideal Bread, Taylor Ho Bynum, Ben Wendel, and many others.

Born into a musical family, Larry Koonse has been playing the guitar since he was seven years old.After graduating from USC Larry toured extensively for six years as a member of the John Dankworth quartet. He is a member of Billy Child's landmark chamber sextet. He has received multiple Grammy nominations over the years and has been a featured player on more than 400 albums.

Drummer Mark Ferber can be heard on over 200 recordings. Ongoing projects include ECM recording artist Ralph Alessi’s ‘This Against That’, the Marc Copland Quartet, the Brad Shepik Organ Trio, and his twin brother, Alan Ferber’s Grammy nominated big band and nonet. He has worked as a faculty member for the California Institute of the Arts, the Tavira Jazz Workshop in Portugal, the School of Improvisational Music (SIM), the City College of New York, The Maine Jazz Camp and The Lafayette Summer Music Jazz Workshop. 

https://www.kingstontrio.com

In 1957 The Kingston Trio emerged from San Francisco’s North Beach club scene to take the country by storm, bringing the rich tradition of American folk music into the mainstream for the first time.Through changing times, the Trio has played on, remaining popular for a simple reason… great songs that sound as good today as the first time you heard them. And fifty-eight years after Tom Dooley shot to the top of the charts, the Trio is still on the road thirty weeks a year, bringing back all the great memories and making new ones.

All three current members, Mike Marvin, Tim Gorelangton and Don Marovich, have intrinsic links to and experience with the original group: Mike is the adopted son of founding member Nick Reynolds, who was also his musical mentor; Tim, a close friend since boyhood, is one of the few musicians outside the Trio who has recorded with Nick Reynolds; and Don Marovich, who has performed with the Trio and who plays the guitar, banjo and mandolin.

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TeamNeville is presenting this performance to benifit The Central Valley Honor Flight.

Since its inaugural flight in October 2013, Central Valley Honor Flight has taken more than 1500 veterans to see their memorial in  Washington D.C.

Each trip costs roughly $1,500 per veteran for the charter aircraft, tour buses, lodging and meals – an expense covered by Central Valley Honor Flight entirely through donations from more than 1,000 individuals, small businesses and service clubs from Modesto to Porterville. Fundraising efforts are currently underway to help pay for additional trips.

https://www.cvhonorflight.org

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https://talyahalom.com

Tal Yahalom is an award-winning Israeli guitarist, composer and bandleader based in Brooklyn, New York since 2014. Drawing from a wide range of influences – spanning jazz and impressionistic classical music to Brazilian repertoire and South-American guitar traditions.

Following 3 solo guitar EPs of original and improvised music, Tal released ‘Solo Standards’ in June 2023 - an ambitious and creative take on classic jazz repertoire, arranged to showcase the guitar as a multi-dimensional instrument, playing several roles simultaneously while exploring various techniques and textures.

Yahalom performed as a semifinalist at the 2019 Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz International Guitar Competition, earned 1st place at the 2015 Detroit Jazz Festival National Guitar Competition, 3rd place at the 2016 Montreux Jazz Festival International Guitar Competition, and received an AICF scholarship award of excellence in 2014-2015.

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https://www.y&trocks.com

Before Mötley Crüe, before RATT, even before there was a Metallica, Y&T was slogging away in sweaty rock clubs around America. When the band formed in the early 1970s, little did they know they would set the standard for hard rock bands that trailed. Many of the biggest acts of the ’80s became popular opening for headliners Y&T—and cut their teeth on the band, as evidenced by the Y&T mentions in tell-all books by acts such as Metallica and Mötley Crüe.

Born in Oakland, California, Y&T is one of the San Francisco Bay Area’s own innovators of the hard rock sound. Whether performing to a festival crowd of fifty-thousand or in an intimate nightclub, Y&T’s high-energy set and passionate performances still captivate legions of fans around the globe, proving Y&T’s music timeless.

Originally formed as Yesterday and Today, the initial powerhouse quartet—featuring Dave Meniketti (lead guitar/lead vocals), Phil Kennemore (bass), Leonard Haze (drums), and Joey Alves (rhythm guitar)—tore through the ’70s and ’80s with their own brand of hard rock. After two ’70s albums on London Records, they shortened their name to Y&T and released eight albums on A&M in the ’80s. Two more albums with Geffen Records marked an era of change with Jimmy DeGrasso (Alice Cooper, Suicidal Tendencies, Megadeth) on drums and Stef Burns (Alice Cooper, Berlin, Huey Lewis) on guitar.

In 2024 Y&T will be in their 50th year of rocking in the USA, and continues to tour the world, featuring the dynamic original frontman Dave Meniketti (lead guitar/lead vocals), John Nymann (guitar/vocals), Aaron Leigh (bass/vocals), and Mike Vanderhule (drums/vocals), playing songs that span the band’s five-decade career and including all the hits and fan favorites. Prepare to have your face melted.

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