Live Jazz in SF Bay

LIVE at Piedmont Piano Company JAZZ CAMP JAZZ FEST Grupo Falso Baiano with special guest Anat Cohen TWO SHOWS 5PM & 7:30PM Grupo Falso Baiano, with Carlos Oliveira, present an evening of choro, Brazil’s earliest popular music. Like jazz, it reflects the melding of African rhythms with European classical music and other influences. Grupo Falso Baiano formed over 21 years ago in 2004 and performs choro with a twist, including elements of jazz, samba, and even bluegrass. Their exploration of choro spans nearly 100 years, including everything from traditional to more contemporary versions and jazz-influenced reinterpretations. Join us for a lively program that traces the nuances of Brazilian choro music and featuring the phenomenal clarinetist Anat Cohen. General Admission $30 in advance / $35 at the door We are offering a limited number of seats for these performances. Advance purchase is recommended. ANAT COHEN Clarinetist-saxophonist Anat Cohen has won hearts and minds around the globe with her expressive virtuosity and magnetic stage presence, earning esteem both as a musician’s musician and as a performer who charms new recruits to the jazz art like few others. With her acclaimed albums, sold-out world tours and Grammy Award nominations adding up over the past two and a half decades — not to mention the glowing profiles by such totemic outlets as NPR’s Fresh Air and The New York Times — it has become apparent that the Brooklyn-based Anat has evolved into one of the music’s great border-bounding leaders, as not only an artist but as an educator, an ambassador. Anat fell for the choro music of Brazil while studying at the Berklee College of Music, and the country eventually became a home away from home for her. Not only have many of her albums as a leader included Brazilian classics and original pieces that Anat composed under the influence of choro, samba, bossa nova and more. She has two Brazilian albums that are Grammy-nominated: Outra Coisa: The Music of Moacir Santos (with Brazilian guitarist Marcello Gonçalves) and the Grammy-nominated Rosa Dos Ventos (with Trio Brasileiro). DownBeat declared: “One of the most acclaimed clarinetists in jazz, the Israel-born Cohen has also managed to become one of the world’s foremost practitioners of Brazilian music. Indeed, she is now to the clarinet what Stan Getz was to the tenor saxophone in the 1960s: a jazz musician who speaks the language so fluently that she has become a beacon of Brazilian music to the larger jazz world.” anatcohen.com CARLOS OLIVEIRA Recently returned to the Bay Area, Grupo Falso Baiano is delighted to include Carlos Oliveira in this concert. Guitarist, composer, arranger, and teacher Carlos Oliveira is a leading figure in preserving and performing the rich musical traditions of Brazil, particularly in the Northeast region of the country. Originally from Pernambuco, he began playing guitar in his teens and has dedicated his career to showcasing a wide range of Brazilian styles, from choro and samba to baião FALSO BAIANO Grupo Falso Baiano is a San Francisco-based quartet bringing the joy of Brazilian choro music to audiences in California and beyond. Choro is one of Brazil’s earliest popular musics, originating in the 1870s, and remains a vibrant, evolving style today.The group honors choro’s 150-year legacy, bringing their varied musical backgrounds and creativity to this timeless tradition. Their performances span classic tunes to jazz-influenced pieces, showcasing the genre’s rich diversity.With 20 years together, Grupo Falso Baiano has graced top jazz and world music stages on the west coast, including SF Jazz, Yoshi’s Oakland, Yoshi’s San Francisco, The Freight and Salvage, the California Jazz Conservatory, San Jose Jazz Festival, Healdsburg Jazz Festival, and L.A.C.M.A. They’ve worked with renowned Brazilian and jazz artists like Anat Cohen, Ana Carbatti, Jovino Santos Neto, Jackie Rago, Moyseis Marques, Rogerio Souza and Tiago do Bandolim. Grupo Falso Baiano is Ami Molinelli (percussion), Brian Moran (7-string guitar), Jesse Appelman (mandolin), and Zack Pitt-Smith (reeds). grupofalsobaiano.com

LIVE at Piedmont Piano Company JAZZ CAMP JAZZ FEST Grupo Falso Baiano with special guest Anat Cohen TWO SHOWS 5PM & 7:30PM Grupo Falso Baiano, with Carlos Oliveira, present an evening of choro, Brazil’s earliest popular music. Like jazz, it reflects the melding of African rhythms with European classical music and other influences. Grupo Falso Baiano formed over 21 years ago in 2004 and performs choro with a twist, including elements of jazz, samba, and even bluegrass. Their exploration of choro spans nearly 100 years, including everything from traditional to more contemporary versions and jazz-influenced reinterpretations. Join us for a lively program that traces the nuances of Brazilian choro music and featuring the phenomenal clarinetist Anat Cohen. General Admission $30 in advance / $35 at the door We are offering a limited number of seats for these performances. Advance purchase is recommended. ANAT COHEN Clarinetist-saxophonist Anat Cohen has won hearts and minds around the globe with her expressive virtuosity and magnetic stage presence, earning esteem both as a musician’s musician and as a performer who charms new recruits to the jazz art like few others. With her acclaimed albums, sold-out world tours and Grammy Award nominations adding up over the past two and a half decades — not to mention the glowing profiles by such totemic outlets as NPR’s Fresh Air and The New York Times — it has become apparent that the Brooklyn-based Anat has evolved into one of the music’s great border-bounding leaders, as not only an artist but as an educator, an ambassador. Anat fell for the choro music of Brazil while studying at the Berklee College of Music, and the country eventually became a home away from home for her. Not only have many of her albums as a leader included Brazilian classics and original pieces that Anat composed under the influence of choro, samba, bossa nova and more. She has two Brazilian albums that are Grammy-nominated: Outra Coisa: The Music of Moacir Santos (with Brazilian guitarist Marcello Gonçalves) and the Grammy-nominated Rosa Dos Ventos (with Trio Brasileiro). DownBeat declared: “One of the most acclaimed clarinetists in jazz, the Israel-born Cohen has also managed to become one of the world’s foremost practitioners of Brazilian music. Indeed, she is now to the clarinet what Stan Getz was to the tenor saxophone in the 1960s: a jazz musician who speaks the language so fluently that she has become a beacon of Brazilian music to the larger jazz world.” anatcohen.com CARLOS OLIVEIRA Recently returned to the Bay Area, Grupo Falso Baiano is delighted to include Carlos Oliveira in this concert. Guitarist, composer, arranger, and teacher Carlos Oliveira is a leading figure in preserving and performing the rich musical traditions of Brazil, particularly in the Northeast region of the country. Originally from Pernambuco, he began playing guitar in his teens and has dedicated his career to showcasing a wide range of Brazilian styles, from choro and samba to baião FALSO BAIANO Grupo Falso Baiano is a San Francisco-based quartet bringing the joy of Brazilian choro music to audiences in California and beyond. Choro is one of Brazil’s earliest popular musics, originating in the 1870s, and remains a vibrant, evolving style today.The group honors choro’s 150-year legacy, bringing their varied musical backgrounds and creativity to this timeless tradition. Their performances span classic tunes to jazz-influenced pieces, showcasing the genre’s rich diversity.With 20 years together, Grupo Falso Baiano has graced top jazz and world music stages on the west coast, including SF Jazz, Yoshi’s Oakland, Yoshi’s San Francisco, The Freight and Salvage, the California Jazz Conservatory, San Jose Jazz Festival, Healdsburg Jazz Festival, and L.A.C.M.A. They’ve worked with renowned Brazilian and jazz artists like Anat Cohen, Ana Carbatti, Jovino Santos Neto, Jackie Rago, Moyseis Marques, Rogerio Souza and Tiago do Bandolim. Grupo Falso Baiano is Ami Molinelli (percussion), Brian Moran (7-string guitar), Jesse Appelman (mandolin), and Zack Pitt-Smith (reeds). grupofalsobaiano.com

LIVE at Piedmont Piano Company Emilio Solla & Antonio Lizana El Siempre Mar Latin GRAMMY winner and 6x GRAMMY nominee, Argentina-born and New York-based pianist, composer, and arranger Emilio Solla teams up for his 15th album with rising star Spanish flamenco-jazz vocalist and saxophonist Antonio Lizana to create a highly original album, El Siempre Mar , where old Argentine folk songs live together with original compositions from both artists. In this new take on the “cantes de ida y vuelta” (roundtrip songs), these two artists have managed to find a unique and contemporary meeting point between the music of Argentina, the south of Spain, and jazz. General Admission $30 in advance / $35 at the door We are offering a limited number of seats for this performance. Advance purchase is recommended. EMILIO SOLLA Emilio Solla has been lauded for his artistry in summoning global styles and rhythms. His aesthetic eloquence can be experienced in his Latin GRAMMY-winning album, Puertos: Music from International Waters . The master composer-arranger has also earned six GRAMMY nominations. Solla has performed at some of the most iconic venues in Europe, Latin America, and the United States alongside Jazz and Latin legends such as Paquito D'Rivera, Billy Hart, Arturo O'Farrill, Edmar Castañeda, Silk Road Ensemble member Cristina Pato, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and the WDR Big Band. Of his piano performances, The New York Times has said, “The virile throb of Astor Piazzolla's nuevo tango is omnipresent in the pianist Emilio Solla's stately pulse.” emiliosolla.com ANTONIO LIZANA Antonio Lizana is considered both by audiences and critics worldwide as a distinctive figure in the contemporary flamenco-jazz field. In addition to his extraordinary skills as a composer, lyricist, and singer, Lizana is a world-class jazz saxophonist. The uniqueness of his style has brought him international recognition. He has performed with his quintet in venues and festivals all around the globe, including Womex; Etnosur; SXSW; Flamenco festivals in London, New York, and San Francisco; Flamenco Biennale (Holland); Barcelona Jazz Festival; Shanghai Jazz Fest; and more. antoniolizanamusic.com

LIVE at Piedmont Piano Company JAZZ CAMP JAZZ FEST Peter Apfelbaum & Paul Hanson Longtime musical associates Peter Apfelbaum (piano, saxophone, flutes, percussion) and Paul Hanson (bassoon, woodwinds) appear in Duo for the first time at the piano store. Having met as students in the pioneering Berkeley public schools Jazz Program in the 1970's, the two began a lifelong musical association as members of Apfelbaum's Hieroglyphics Ensemble in 1977. In their largely improvised performances, the Apfelbaum/Hanson Duo combines Apfelbaum's expansive, polyrhythmic approach to the piano - blending elements of jazz, gospel, avant-garde and world music - with Hanson's singular, virtuosic, electronics-enhanced bassoon melodies which evoke the haunting beauty of Balkan music. For this show, they will be premiering new original compositions as well. General Admission $30 in advance / $35 at the door We are offering a limited number of seats for this performance. Advance purchase is recommended. PETER APFELBAUM An influential figure in new jazz for over three decades, Grammy winner Peter Apfelbaum (piano, saxophone, flutes, percussion) is best known as leader of the genre-mashing world music big band Hieroglyphics and the electronica/vocal-driven sextet Sparkler. Based in Brooklyn, NY since 1998, he has also collaborated with some of the leading figures in contemporary music, including the late Don Cherry (whose group Multikulti he was Musical Director of from 1989-1995), Cecil Taylor, Harry Belafonte, Omar Sosa, Bill Laswell, and Trey Anastasio, among others. He has written for the Kronos Quartet, the National Swedish Radio Orchestra and Kamikaze Ground Crew. In addition to his own projects, he has also often returned to the Bay Area over the years in the various bands led by NY-based, Berkeley-bred trumpeter Steven Bernstein, Cuban-born drummer/composer Dafnis Prieto, and world music pioneer Jai Uttal. He currently leads the New York Hieroglyphics and is the Conductor and Artistic Director of the Creative Music Studio Improvisers Orchestra, which performs monthly in Kingston, NY. CMJ New Music Report has called Apfelbaum "A visionary, galvanic composer and player like few others of his time.” PAUL HANSON Paul Hanson, internationally known as a top jazz bassoonist, has roots both in jazz and classical music as a conservatory-trained bassoonist currently active in both idioms. His list of jazz bassoon credits for performance and recording include Jon Batiste, Taylor Eigsti, Billy Cobham, Randy Brecker, Fareed Haque, Wayne Shorter, Brian Blade, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Peter Erskine, Billy Childs, Miguel Zenon with SF Jazz, Billy Higgins, David Binney, Ray Charles, Charlie Hunter, Patrice Rushen, Dennis Chambers, Abraham Laboriel, Medeski Martin & Wood, Jonas Hellborg, Afro/Cuban pianist Omar Sosa, Kai Eckhardt, Peter Apfelbaum. Other performances include Paul with The Paul Dresher Ensemble, DAVKA, St. Joseph Ballet Company, The Klezmorim, as jazz soloist with the Oakland Eastbay Symphony Orchestra, as classical soloist with the Napa Symphony Orchestra and Contra Costa Chamber Orchestra. In 2008-Paul was invited to collaborate with Cirque Du Soleil where his role in the show ZED was created for him-this lasted till 2012. Paul has won awards both in classical and jazz music. He was awarded a jazz performance grant from the National Endowment of the Arts in 1995. He was the Robert Mondavi Concerto Competition winner as a student in 1984. With Bela Fleck and the Flecktones- he recorded OUTBOUND which won a Grammy in 2000. Paul was the Grand Prize winner of JAZZIZ Magazine's Woodwinds on Fire award in 1995 for his album ‘ASTRO BOY BLUES’. With Jon Batiste-Paul appeared in the recent movie “American Symphony” and performed at Carnegie Hall. Paul has taught numerous master classes worldwide including Ithaca College, Penn State University, Arizona State University, Oklahoma University, University of Wisconsin, Memphis State University, University of Northeaster Oklahoma, University of Arkansas and Portland StateUniversity-all specializing in modern performance techniques and improvisation for double reed instruments. In 2004, Paul was an assistant professor of bassoon at Ithaca College of Music. Paul currently teaches privately in the San Francisco Bay Area.

LIVE at Piedmont Piano Company Hannah Mayer, Nathan Nakadegawa-Lee, & Gus Hurteau Longtime friends and musical collaborators pianist Hannah Mayer, saxophonist Nathan Nakadegawa-Lee, and vibraphonist Gus Hurteau present an intimate show of original music, as well as songs from their favorite composers spanning across genres. Catch this East Bay born-and-raised trio while they’re in town from New York City! General Admission $20 in advance / $25 at the door We are offering a limited number of seats for this performance. Advanced purchase is recommended. HANNAH MAYER Hannah Mayer is a pianist and composer from El Cerrito, currently based in NYC. Hannah has shared the stage with notable musicians including Sean Jones, Melissa Aldana, Etienne Charles, Warren Wolf, Charenée Wade, Pedro Martins, and has had the immense honor of being mentored by the great Brazilian guitarist/vocalist/composer Toninho Horta, recording and performing with him during his time in New York this past year. Hannah has performed at venues/festivals including Small’s, Mezzrow, Bar LunÀtico, Nublu, The Jazz Gallery, 54 Below, Keystone Korner, the Jazz Showcase, BopStop, Yoshi’s, the Monterey Jazz Festival, The Tri-C Jazz Festival, the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival, and Shijiajuang University in China. Hannah received their Bachelor’s from Peabody Conservatory and has been a member of programs including Betty Carter’s Jazz Ahead, Carnegie Hall’s NYO Jazz and YoungArts. Heavily influenced by musical theatre composers, Hannah’s debut album pays tribute to Stephen Sondheim (“Hannah Mayer & Friends Play Sondheim”) and Hannah is currently a composer in the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Songwriting Workshop. Hannah is excited to return to Piedmont Piano Company, having grown up attending Oakland School for the Arts across the street! NATHAN NAKADEGAWA-LEE Born and raised in Oakland, California, saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer Nathan Nakadegawa-Lee embodies a striking mix of sounds deriving from improvised, vocal, blues, and jazz traditions. He is a graduate of The New School's Jazz and Contemporary Music program, where he studied with luminaries such as Melissa Aldana, Darius Jones, Tivon Pennicott, David Glasser, Or Bareket, Jon Irabagon, Anat Cohen, Joshua Rubin, and Ismail Lumaneovsky. In Oakland, Nathan has taught at Oakland Summer Music, Oakland Public Conservatory, and his alma mater Claremont Middle School, providing music education at no cost to middle schoolers. As a performer, Nathan has appeared alongside generational artists such as Billy Martin, Faye Carol, Azure McCall, Selendis Sebastian Alexander Johnson, and Lesley Mok. He has performed internationally in Tokyo, and the Bern Jazz Festival in Switzerland, in the Bay Area at Yoshi's Oakland, and The Soundroom, and NYC at Dizzy’s Jazz Club, The Stone, and Le Poisson Rouge. A big supporter of community organizing, Nathan hosts eclectic house shows and Improv Nights, and continues to compose, improvise, and perform in New York City and the Bay Area. GUS HURTEAU Gus Hurteau is an Oakland native and multi-instrumentalist based in New York. Gus started playing music at age six, and has performed in genres from jazz to metal, on drums, bass, keyboards, and of course, his main love, the vibraphone. Gus studied jazz performance at the New School in New York, and with vibraphone legends Joe Locke and Mike Mainieri, and audio engineering at the city college of New York. Gus is currently a member of the legendary bassist Gene Perla’s Tiger Quartet, who have toured up and down the east coast. Gus’ vibraphone fronted metal EP “There’s Still Time to Regret Everything” was released in the summer of 2025 and features Gus playing vibraphone, drums, keyboards, bass, and 8 string guitar. The album explores the unfamiliar sound of vibraphone in metal, as well pushes genre limits by experimenting with complex harmony, rhythmic structures, and conventions from other genres. Ultimately, "There's Still Time to Regret Everything" stands as a testament to Gus' deep respect for multi-instrumentalism, well-rounded creatives, and forward thinking music across all genres.

LIVE at Piedmont Piano Company Tierney Sutton & Tamir Hendelman “Spring” CD Release TWO SHOWS 5:30pm / 8pm Jazz vocalist and nine-time Grammy nominee Tierney Sutton returns to the piano store with virtuosic pianist, composer and arranger Tamir Hendelman to celebrate the release of their new duo album, Spring . Recorded live after a run of Spring 2025 tour dates, the album captures the effortless chemistry between two voices as they bloom through moods that feel hopeful, tender, swinging, and quietly electric. http://springthealbum.com General Admission $40 in advance / $45 at the door We are offering a limited number of seats for these performances. Advance purchase is recommended. Masking is optional. TIERNEY SUTTON Tierney Sutton has received 8 Nominations for “Best Jazz Vocal Album” and a 9th for arranging. Known for her impeccable voice and superbly imaginative arrangements, Sutton is heralded for her ability to transform eventhe most familiar song into a revelation. She is a story-teller. Her 15 recordings as leader have addressed themes such as materialism and the pursuit of happiness as well as paying tribute to the music of Bill Evans, Frank Sinatra and Sting. Since 1993 Sutton has fronted the Tierney Sutton Band, but the pandemic found Tierney deepening her collaboration with piano powerhouse Tamir Hendelman. Director Clint Eastwood has called Sutton “my favorite singer,” and she has given workshops and masterclasses throughout the world and has taught and mentored some of the finest new generation of singers including Sara Gazarek and Gretchen Parlato. tierneysutton.com TAMIR HENDELMAN Whether leading the Tamir Hendelman Trio or as a long time member of the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, award-winning pianist-composer Tamir Hendelman is known for his dynamic and sensitive touch and imaginative arranging. Hendelman has toured and recorded with Natalie Cole, Barbra Streisand, the Jeff Hamilton Trio, and Roberta Gambarini. He has toured in duo with Tierney Sutton in venues from the US to Europe to Japan. Since moving from Tel Aviv to Los Angeles and winning Yamaha’s national keyboard competition in his youth, Hendelman has appeared on recordings by Paul McCartney, Michael Buble and Diana Krall, has performed with Benny Golson, Eddie Henderson, Houston Person, James Moody and Sean Jones, and has arranged for Richard Galliano, Lori Bell, Graham Dechter and Claudio Roditi. Since 2005 he has taught at UCLA’s Herb Alpert School of Music’s Global Jazz Studies department. tamirhendelman.com

LIVE at Piedmont Piano Company Tierney Sutton & Tamir Hendelman “Spring” CD Release TWO SHOWS 5:30pm / 8pm Jazz vocalist and nine-time Grammy nominee Tierney Sutton returns to the piano store with virtuosic pianist, composer and arranger Tamir Hendelman to celebrate the release of their new duo album, Spring . Recorded live after a run of Spring 2025 tour dates, the album captures the effortless chemistry between two voices as they bloom through moods that feel hopeful, tender, swinging, and quietly electric. http://springthealbum.com General Admission $40 in advance / $45 at the door We are offering a limited number of seats for these performances. Advance purchase is recommended. Masking is optional. TIERNEY SUTTON Tierney Sutton has received 8 Nominations for “Best Jazz Vocal Album” and a 9th for arranging. Known for her impeccable voice and superbly imaginative arrangements, Sutton is heralded for her ability to transform eventhe most familiar song into a revelation. She is a story-teller. Her 15 recordings as leader have addressed themes such as materialism and the pursuit of happiness as well as paying tribute to the music of Bill Evans, Frank Sinatra and Sting. Since 1993 Sutton has fronted the Tierney Sutton Band, but the pandemic found Tierney deepening her collaboration with piano powerhouse Tamir Hendelman. Director Clint Eastwood has called Sutton “my favorite singer,” and she has given workshops and masterclasses throughout the world and has taught and mentored some of the finest new generation of singers including Sara Gazarek and Gretchen Parlato. tierneysutton.com TAMIR HENDELMAN Whether leading the Tamir Hendelman Trio or as a long time member of the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, award-winning pianist-composer Tamir Hendelman is known for his dynamic and sensitive touch and imaginative arranging. Hendelman has toured and recorded with Natalie Cole, Barbra Streisand, the Jeff Hamilton Trio, and Roberta Gambarini. He has toured in duo with Tierney Sutton in venues from the US to Europe to Japan. Since moving from Tel Aviv to Los Angeles and winning Yamaha’s national keyboard competition in his youth, Hendelman has appeared on recordings by Paul McCartney, Michael Buble and Diana Krall, has performed with Benny Golson, Eddie Henderson, Houston Person, James Moody and Sean Jones, and has arranged for Richard Galliano, Lori Bell, Graham Dechter and Claudio Roditi. Since 2005 he has taught at UCLA’s Herb Alpert School of Music’s Global Jazz Studies department. tamirhendelman.com

LIVE at Piedmont Piano Company Amendola Vs. Blades Featuring Kasey Knudsen and Ryan Shaeffer Longtime musical associates Scott Amendola and Wil Blades have been playing as a duo for over 20 years as "Amendola Vs. Blades." They play a genre bending blend of Funk, Bebop, Afro Beat, Avant Garde and more. Their shows have been lauded for their ability to sound like a huge band, even though they are only two musicians. For this special one-off Bay Area date, they will be joined by special guests Kasey Knudsen on sax and Ryan Schaeffer on guitar. General Admission $25 in advance / $30 at the door We are offering a limited number of seats for this performance. Advance purchase is recommended. AMENDOLA VS. BLADES If told about a band that consisted of only keyboards and drums, one wouldn’t be faulted for thinking, “Where’s the rest of the group?” But one listen to the funky California-based duo Amendola Vs. Blades and their new album, ‘Everybody Wins’ and all fears will be assuaged. Wil Blades on Hammond organ and clavinet delivers cutting solos and deep bass lines that make for a thick stew of soulful harmony and daring improvisation, while Scott Amendola behind the kit creates beats that are simply unstoppable, simultaneously pushing the duo to heights unknown and sending the listener into a joyful sonic trance. The musicians first united in 2006 to perform the Duke Ellington album ‘Far East Suite’ and the ball hasn’t stopped rolling since. And despite a little distance on the horizon—Blades recently relocated to L.A.—there is no end in sight for the duo that sounds like an eight-piece band. The extra-musical bond keeps growing, too. “The ‘Vs.’ is about how we mess with each other,” says Amendola. “It’s one fun part of our personal connection. Our friendship. We take the art of what we do seriously, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously. Gotta have fun, mess with each other . . . and keep improvising!” avsbmusic.com KASEY KNUDSEN Kasey Knudsen is a San Francisco-based saxophonist, composer, and educator. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Jazz Composition from Berklee College of Music in 2002. Knudsen has been described as “one of the region’s most esteemed saxophonists” by Andrew Gilbert in San Francisco Classical Voice and was included in Paste Magazine’s list of “10 Female Instrumentalists Who Redefine Jazz” in 2016. In addition to leading several of her own projects, Knudsen co-leads groups including the Schimscheimer Family Trio, the Holly Martins, and the Klaxon Mutant Allstars. She has collaborated extensively with many of the Bay Area’s most distinctive musical voices, including performances throughout the United States and Europe with Tune-Yards; international tours and festivals with Fred Frith; and performances with Charlie Hunter, Scott Amendola, Erik Jekabson, Circus Bella, Ben Goldberg, the Electric Squeezebox Orchestra, Ian Carey, Beth Schenck, and many others. RYAN SHAEFFER Oakland native guitarist Ryan Schaeffer has played all around the Bay Area and across the globe. Ryan’s unique musical background has influenced his instrumentation, creating a fusion of funk, jazz and gospel that allow him to transcend genre.