Matthew Whitaker grew up surrounded by music. At 9 years old, Matthew began teaching himself how to play the Hammond B3 organ and 4 years later, he became the youngest artist to be endorsed by Hammond in its 80+ year history. By age 15, he was also named a Yamaha Artist, becoming the youngest musician to join the stellar […]

WEEK #3 FEATURING: SET I: KRISSY BERGMARK + BRYAN NICHOLS + CODY MCKINNEY + ERIK FRATZKE SET II JESSE WHITNEY

Enigmatic guitarist Marc Ribot has released 6 very diverse solo guitar albums: (including John Zorn’s Book of Heads, Plays the Works of Frantz Casseus, Saints, Don’t Blame Me, Exercises in Futility) and 2010's, Silent Movies (Pi Recordings) has been described as a "down-in-mouth-near master piece" by the Village Voice and has landed on several Best of 2010 lists including the LA Times […]

Kenny Horst - drums, Will Kjeer - piano, Chris Bates - bass, Pete Whitman - sax

As part of the symposium, performances by Simon Harding, Paul Harper, Joe Mayo, and Pete Whitman on Sax. Laura Caviani - Piano Kam Markworth - Bass Mac Santiago - Drums

Songwriter and novelist Dylan Hicks will perform new and not-quite-as-new material with a sextet featuring Zacc Harris, Michelle Kinney, Christopher Thomson, Charlie Lincoln, and Peter Hennig. For the first set, the group will "open for itself” with a mix of solo, duo, and group pieces, improvisations, and experiments more or less distinct from the song-based […]

This perfect trio features: CHRIS BATES, bassist // BRYAN NICHOLS, piano // JAY EPSTEIN, drums

After a warm up from infrequent dancing and or review of some classic swing moves with the Uptown Swing dance company expect to turn up the heat with The Red Hot Django Peppers as they burn up the Hot Club Swing style popularized by Django Reinhardt.