Starring the Crystal Bowls, Cynthia and Rick Quintanal
Photo- Annie Stiefel
The Crystal Cymbalogy Band formed out of a desire to create music that expressed each musicians heart and soul in their present moment. What evolved is an interactive play of consciousness wherein the musicians connect first to their own essence and soul level then to each other and lastly but most importantly to those present in the audience. This requires deep listening to all of the energies in the performance space. Each concert is unique in that it is completely improvised.
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Past concerts have featured-
For more info on Rick Quintanal
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Past concerts have featured-
Dave Anderson- Bass, electric upright bass, Loops
Dave Anderson has, in over twenty five years of professional bass playing, worked with so many notable musical artists. Michael McDonald; Art Garfunkel; Blood, Sweat & Tears; Patti Austin; James Ingram; Ashford & Simpson; The 5th Dimension; Darlene Love; Phoebe Snow... just name a few in the long list!
Dave's own projects include: The Dave Anderson Group, and the DAG Special Projects Unit – of which the long running improvisational duo "Q&A" with Rick Quintanal is the chief effort. Additionally, Dave has composed and recorded original music for Theatreworks New Milford for several of their productions: The Laramie Project; The Elephant Man; and Dog Sees God. He owns and manages Flying Squirrel Studio, where he has engineered and played on over a dozen recording projects for various jazz/improvisational artists.
Dave and Ricks' "Q&A" project was actually the inspiration to venture into the format we have. He and Rick have spent many hours (most likely adding up to years) improvising together in the studio.
for more Dave Anderson go to www.daveandersonbass.com
John Marshall- Percussion
John Marshall performs on concert stages, radio, television, and film both nationally and internationally. He includes the drumming traditions of the Middle East, North and South India, Egypt, West Africa, the Caribbean, and Central Asia in his repertoire. Performing on frame drums, tabla, doumbek, tombak, djembe, congas, riq, pandiero, mbira, conventional Western percussion, and all manner of hand-held percussion.
John's music has been featured on National Public Radio's All Things Considered, Echoes, Hearts Of Space, PBS Television and the British Broadcasting Company (BBC).He has performed and recorded with such artists as The Paul Winter Consort, Michael Brecker, Omar Faruk Tekbilek, Snatam Kaur, Paco Pena, Krishna Das and David Darling to name just a few.
We have been aware of Johns talents for a long time and saw him recently at a kirtan event and thought "wow, wouldn't it be great if..." A few months later he joined us to do the Solstice concert and we very much look forward to some events that are in the works for future dates with him!
For more John Marshall go to http://www.marshalldrum.net
John's music has been featured on National Public Radio's All Things Considered, Echoes, Hearts Of Space, PBS Television and the British Broadcasting Company (BBC).He has performed and recorded with such artists as The Paul Winter Consort, Michael Brecker, Omar Faruk Tekbilek, Snatam Kaur, Paco Pena, Krishna Das and David Darling to name just a few.
We have been aware of Johns talents for a long time and saw him recently at a kirtan event and thought "wow, wouldn't it be great if..." A few months later he joined us to do the Solstice concert and we very much look forward to some events that are in the works for future dates with him!
For more John Marshall go to http://www.marshalldrum.net
Karl Spicer- Shakuhachi
Karl is an accomplished bassist in NYC,who plays Jazz "mostly on the dinner cruise Bateaux" in New York. He also plays the bamboo flute from Japan known as the Shakuhachi. He's into Brazilian music and plays guitar/sings Bossa Nova. We first heard about Karls passion for Shakuhachi through his website. Rick was reconnecting with Karl who had played a few jazz gigs on bass with Rick on drums.
Karl and his instrument added a new dimension to our Solstice concert and we excited to have him back with us again soon! It has such a lush warm tone and very definitively Japanese sound.
For more Karl Spicer go to http://www.karlspicer.com/
Karl and his instrument added a new dimension to our Solstice concert and we excited to have him back with us again soon! It has such a lush warm tone and very definitively Japanese sound.
For more Karl Spicer go to http://www.karlspicer.com/
Lydia Heilmann- Cello
photo-Annie Stiefel
Lydia is a professional Cellist who before improvising with us had only played with orchestra! She handled us very well since she is also a yoga instructor/ practitioner.
photo- Annie Stiefel
photo- Lisa Brett
upcoming dates to be announced soon! Enjoy the photos below by Annie Stiefel.
