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01/27 Friday

7:00 PM Yani Batteau and the Styles

Yani Batteau calls her music 'Americana Soul'. Her musical roots run deep encompassing the sounds and lore of Vintage Country, traditional folk and the unique mystique embedded in Appalachian culture. Her banjo picking style extends beyond claw hammer tradition as she skillfully launches into improvisational riffs that are at once complex and dynamic. She is joined by her seasoned bandmates, The Styles, Steve Sidhly on Guitar and Marty White on bass.

"Yani Batteau has carved out her own niche of what she calls

mountain music. Her latest album 'Fearless' includes a sly

banjo-driven cover of Johnny Cash's 'Ring of Fire'."

The Boston Globe 2/24/11

"An adroit, yet mysterious, amalgamation of country styles"

John Gersh

“Yani is so skillful, making the difficult seem effortless as her fingers fly over the strings…”

Lucy Holstedt - Berklee College of Music

“I’ve never met anyone who doesn’t love to hear Yani sing and play.

Kirk Etherton - writer and musician

8:00 PM Allan Chase & Friends

Allan Chase-alto and baritone saxes
Keala Kaumeheiwa-bass
Luther Gray-drums
and a Special Guest!

9:00 PM Composers Saxophone Quartet

Mark Zaleski- soprano sax
Rick Stone- alto sax
Sean Berry- tenor sax
Kathy Olson- bari sax

This group performs original compositions and/or arrangements by members of the band and local composers including Ayn Inserto, Brian Friedland, Randy Pingrey, Rick Stone, and Kathy Olson.

For more information about the group and to view a short video from a previous performance please visit our website:
http://kathyolsonmusic.com/sax-4-tet/

10:00 PM Tal Zilber

Israeli born pianist Tal Zilber enjoys an unusually diverse career of classical, jazz, and pop performances as well as composing, arranging, and improvising. His chamber and orchestral arrangements have been performed by the Carmel String Quartet and the Be’er Sheva Symphony Orchestra. In 2009 he performed his electro acoustic compositions on the Louisiana-Texas electro acoustic music festival (LaTex). His original incidental music for the play “Chulsha” by Ran Apelberg, was performed at the Fringe Festival in Haifa, Israel under the direction of David Shushan
 
In the classical music scene, Zilber has appeared as a soloist with the Ramat Hasharon Orchestra in Tel Aviv and his recordings were featured on the Galei Zahal radio station in Israel. Zilber was chosen to serve as an Outstanding Musician in the Israeli Defense Forces and during the three years of his military service, he was chosen by the Zionist Federation to participate in a concert tour in Australia.  Prizes and Awards include the Andre Watts Scholarship, the America-Israel culture foundation scholarship, the Lillian H. Duncan Prize and the Marian Fox Martel scholarship.
 
Zilber holds a M.M from Rice University, a Performance Diploma from Indiana University, and a B.M. from the Rubin Israeli Music Academy, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude. His has performed in the Masterclasses of Pnina Salzman, Ronan O'Hara, Evelyne Brancart, Tamás Ungár and the Eroica Trio. Past teachers include Brian Connelly, Edmund Battersby, Michael Boguslavsky, and Alexander Volkov.
 
Zilber is currently pursuing a Doctorate Degree in Contemporary Improvisation at the New England Conservatory in the studios of Ran Blake and Bert Seager.

11:11 PM gaT

The Gill Aharon Trio is rarely a trio.

Gill Aharon - pen and piano
Randy Wooten - drums
Jef Charland - bass
Andrew Stern - guitar
Rick Stone- alto sax
Kelly Roberge - tenor sax
Daniel Rosenthal - trumpet