MAY 29 THIS HOLDING TRACES OF CONTACT
ozartsnashville.org #OZArts WELCOME TO OZ! Normally, you would be reading this welcome note in a printed program handed to you as you entered the theater. Sadly, we can’t stage the performance with a live audience at this time, but I’m proud of artist Jana Harper and her collaborators for inventing a way to expand on the theme of the original performance and create something that may be even more profound.
By reimagining this work for the camera, we can watch it unfold as a series of stunning images, set in landscapes throughout Nashville. Conceiving and shooting these movements during a time of “social distancing” gives them even greater resonance, as the alternating images of intimacy and isolation create a disturbingly beautiful portrait of a historic period.
I’m grateful to the artists for being so nimble, creative, and ambitious, so that we can all experience the work in a digital format. Thanks also to the team at OZ Arts for working collaboratively with the artists to find a way to use a different platform for sharing an artistic vision. Finally, thank you for watching this passionate new work — especially if you are among the audience watching it during the May 29 premiere (and special thanks to all of you who have made an online contribution, allowing us to share the presentation free of charge).
This Holding: Traces of Contact will be available via the OZ Arts Nashville website throughout the month of June. Please feel free to share the word and encourage others to view it during that time.
I look forward to welcoming you to OZ Arts in person sometime soon.
Thank you,
Mark Murphy Executive & Artistic Director
OZ ARTS NASHVILLE SUPPORTS THE CREATION, DEVELOPMENT, AND PRESENTATION OF SIGNIFICANT CONTEMPORARY PERFORMING AND VISUAL ART WORKS BY LEADING ARTISTS WHOSE CONTRIBUTION INFLUENCES THE ADVANCEMENT OF THEIR FIELD.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES Jerry Johnson, Chairman Jimmy Wilson III, Vice-Chair Laurie Seabury, Secretary T. Alp Ikizler, MD, Treasurer Tim Ozgener, President and Chief Executive Officer Meera Ballal Max Goldberg Aylin Ozgener Daniel Bryant James Kelley Kevin Roddey Marjean Coddon Janet Miller Hope Stringer Ann Waller Curtis Sherri Neal Josephine VanDevender Shervin Eftekhari Arnita Ozgener Marcus Whitney
Performance supported in part by: THIS HOLDING TRACES OF CONTACT
CONCEPT, VISUAL ARTIST, DIRECTOR, PRODUCER Jana Harper
MOVEMENT DIRECTOR AND ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Rebecca Steinberg
MUSICAL SCORE AND ARRANGEMENT Moksha Sommer & Jemal Wade Hines
VIDEOGRAPHER Sam Boyette
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT Kirstin Koepnick
DANCERS James Barrett Becca Hoback Kira Fargas Emma Morrison Lenin Fernandez Hadassah Perry David Flores Sarah Salim Spencer Grady Rebecca Steinberg
MUSIC BY HUDOST Moksha Sommer: composition, vocals, keys, programming Jemal Wade Hines: engineering, guitars, programming Oz Fritz: mixing and mastering Matthew Nelson: string arrangements, cello Avery Bright: violin Kai Welch: horns Oscar Utterström: trombone Dan Walters: bass Bryan Brock: percussion
SPECIAL THANKS Banning Bouldin Lauren Snelling Vadis and Vicki Turner Karen Werner
The world premiere of This Holding: Traces of Contact is made possible in part by support from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Curb Center for Art, Enterprise & Public Policy at Vanderbilt University, The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee, Metro Arts Nashville, and the Office of the Provost at Vanderbilt University. A NOTE FROM LEAD ARTIST JANA HARPER
This project began with a simple question, “What are the unable to meet in groups or gather indoors. We didn’t have burdens we carry?” access to our rehearsal facility and the assembly of large Over the past three years, in the course of researching this audiences was prohibited. Luckily, our team is nimble and work, I have talked to hundreds of people in dozens of our presenter is generous so we were able to pivot from workshops: doctors, dancers, middle-school kids, college performance to film somewhat seamlessly. But Covid-19 students, retirees, folks from many different countries, and didn’t just affect the technical aspects of our project, like from all walks of life. I always start by asking them to name where we would shoot the videos or which dancers could the burdens they carry and together we make a list. To be safely touch one another. It also informed our creative sure, each group has specific weights they bear, but in the process: it caused us to ask new questions about the end, we share the same fundamental human concerns: we rhythms of Covid-life and what burden-sharing looks like worry about our loved ones, our futures, our planet, and of under these new conditions. course, our health. We might experience or carry our burdens differently, but I This Holding Without a doubt, the burden we are collectively hope you will see yourself in this work. If could experiencing right now is Covid-19. It has changed daily life leave you with one feeling, I hope it is the knowledge that for everyone and it caused us to transform our project. This you are not alone. Holding was originally conceived as a live performance — Jana Harper but in the months leading up to its presentation we were
SUPPORTERS John and Kendra Allen Kirke and Linda Harper Mark and Vicki Scala Caroline Allison Judy Harrald Gretchen Schermerhorn Jen Baker Alicia Henry Stephanie Schlaifer and Arny Nadler Jill Baker and Jeffrey Bishop Jamie Karolich Karen Seapker Ayelet Berger Kieu Lam Teka Selman Frauke Berndt-Hoeller Mary Lamboley Tate Shaw Anne Beyer Rachel Lavenda Emily Squires Andrew and Sara Lee Burd Farrel Levy Annie Render Stephens Joy Calico Daphne Lowell Marcia Teusink Seth Caplan Jean Mandeberg Terry Thacker Kiran Chandra Caroline Maxwell Brenda Tucker Paul Collins Elizabeth Meadows Vadis Turner Danika Cooper Melissa Morris Vicki Turner Laurie Corral Barbara Moutenot Usus (Ulrike Stoltz + Ute Schneider) Martha Dale Kevin Murphy Tom Webb Kitty and Tim Daly Leslie Noell Emily Weiner Michael Dickins Ann-Leslie Owens Karen Werner and Ken Botnick Angela Ellsworth Lesley Patterson Marx Chris Willging Jen Fay Jennifer Pepper Mel and Lisa Ziegler Anne Jost Fritz Jerry Phillips Hillary Zilz Laura Gunnip Mary Anne Pitt Nancy Zimler Cheryl Savage ABOUT THE CORE COLLABORATORS International Training Program. Rebecca was a freelance artist in New York before joining New Dialect in 2015. She JANA HARPER (Concept, Visual Artist, has performed in works by Ohad Naharin, Hofesh Shechter, Director, Producer): Jana Harper is David Dorfman, Doug Varone, Inbal Pinto, Roy Assaf, an interdisciplinary artist whose work Bryan Arias, Joy Davis, Idan Sharabi, Banning Bouldin, explores the themes and tensions and Noa Zuk. In addition to performing, Rebecca is a between materiality and transcendence, choreographer and dance educator. She has most recently chance encounters and human willfulness, been commissioned to create work for New Dialect, relationships and connectivity, and human Nashville Ballet, and Middle Tennessee State University. acts of meaning making. Originally trained She has taught workshops and master classes across the as a printmaker, her work takes many forms, and she works country to young dancers, adults, and professionals for in both individual and collaborative settings. over a decade. Most notably she has worked with dancers A native of Washington D.C., Harper received an MFA in through various education programs at Perry Mansfield Printmaking and Letterpress from Arizona State University, Performing Arts School & Camp, New Dialect, Mark Morris a BA in Political Science and Fine Art from The Evergreen Dance Center, Bates Dance Festival, and Jacob’s Pillow State College, and was in the Core Fellowship Program at Dance Festival. the Penland School of Crafts. Additionally, she is trained in Contemplative Movement, Restorative and Awareness MOKSHA SOMMER (Compositions, Yoga, and Community Arts Leadership. Since 2006 she has Vocals, Keys/Synth): Moksha Sommer regularly attended workshops and residencies led by the is a celebrated composer, musician, and artists & educators Rosenclaire. performance artist. Her primary music project is HuDost. In the last year, HuDost Harper’s work is held in several public collections including released a new album of Water + Mercy the Library of Congress, the Sackner Archive for Visual that has received rave reviews and, as and Concrete Poetry, the J.S. Blanton Museum, Proyecto an independent release, reached #24 in Ace Print Collection, and the Janet Turner Print Collection. the BILLBOARD SALES CHARTS for Folk/Americana. It Her work has been written about in The Tennessean, recently received The Independent Music Award for Social Burnaway, The Nashville Scene, in several literary journals Action Song. Sommer is also a committed activist and does including Grist and YEW, and was recently the subject of a advocacy work on behalf of people living in extreme poverty feature article in the bilingual journal Figurationen: Gender, (whose voices are not heard). She holds an MFA from the Literatur, Kultur. Vermont College of Fine Arts and a BFA from Montreal’s Concordia University, both received with Great Distinction. Her work has been shown both nationally and internationally She has received multiple grants from the Canada Council and last year her collaborative performance Cargas for the Arts. Some of her highlight performances include (featuring Moksha Sommer on vocals), was the closing Bonnaroo, The ARK, Alex Grey’s CoSM, the Salvador Dali event for Intermittent Rivers, the Matanzas portion of the Museum, The Levitt Pavilions, Bluebird Café, Music City 13th Havana Biennial. Other selected exhibitions include Roots, and many more. Highlight collaborations and shared Blessing the River, Browsing Room Gallery, 2019; Land performances include Ani DiFranco, Philip Glass, Jon Derived Sentiments, Zeitgeist Gallery, 2019; Selected Works Anderson (YES), Bell Orchestre, Neko Case, Jim Lauderdale, from the Hand Print Workshop, Athaneaeum Museum, Omar Faruk Tekbilek, and Mercan Dede. Sommer hopes to 2017; Southern Constellations, American University Art create music and performance that is a powerful expression Museum, 2016; Asymmetric Kin, Cukurcuma Gallery, Istanbul, of life’s journey and discovery. 2016; Anthology: Visual Narratives from Nashville’s Print Community, Frist Art Museum, 2015; First Impressions, Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, 2013; Let’s Talk About Love, SAM BOYETTE (Filmmaker): Sam Boyette Baby (traveling exhibition 2010-2013) Printed Matter, NY; is a filmmaker and cinematographer who Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit; Joan Flasch Artists’ lives in Nashville, TN. He works on a Book Collection, SAIC, Chicago; National Gallery, Zimbabwe. range of projects including music videos, commercials, and TV shows. His past Harper is associate professor of the practice in the clients include Nashville Soccer Club, department of art at Vanderbilt University. Atlantic Records and CMT, to name a few. Since graduating from Vanderbilt in 2016, REBECCA STEINBERG (Movement Sam has worked on several dance projects with groups Director, Dancer, Assistant Director): such as Intermission and New Dialect, and has been on the Rebecca is originally from Danvers, This Holding creative team since 2017. Massachusetts. She received her BFA in Dance and BA in Psychology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Upon graduation she lived in Israel and danced in Vertigo Dance Company’s ABOUT THE DANCERS Kroger, Acts of Matter, Whyteberg, Szalt, and Arrogant Elbow. Lenin actively engages in community outreach JAMES BARRETT: James received his BA through Heidi Duckler Dance. He works with elementary in Dance from Point Park University in through high school students, sharing tools of composition Pittsburgh, PA. While in school he had the and improvisation through the company’s site-specific opportunity to perform works by Doug framework. His most recent collaboration was a 12-week Varone, Trey McIntyre, and Kevin Iega movement healing and composition workshop with women Jeff. He furthered his studies at Deeply from the Chino Women’s Prison in Southern California. He Rooted Dance Theater and Springboard is grateful to share in this capacity and to further push the Danse Montreal. After graduation, James edges of dance as a healing modality. worked with Pittsburgh-based companies Reed Dance, Texture Contemporary Ballet, and Attack Theatre. In 2014, DAVID FLORES: Born and raised in he joined Visceral Dance Chicago where he performed San José, Costa Rica, Flores attended works by Ohad Naharin, Fernando Melo, Marguerite Marymount Manhattan College in New Donlon, and met Banning Bouldin. James joined New York City where he graduated in 2015 Dialect in August 2016, where he has performed works by with a BFA in modern dance and was Bouldin, Idan Sharabi, and Yin Yue. He has also presented recipient of the Golden Key award. During his own work through the New Dialect’s multi-disciplinary his college career, Flores performed works residency, Third Voice. by Aszure Barton, Dwight Rhoden, Lar Lubovich, Doug Varone, Loni Landon and Chase Brock. In KIRA FARGAS-MABAQUIAO: Kira is 2013, he performed with Nokolais Dance Theater in the First originally from South San Francisco, Yunnan Kunming Yang Liping International Dance Festival CA. Having two professional dancers as in Beijing and Kunming, China. He is a Springboard Danse parents, she was inspired at a young Montreal alum (2014-2015) where he worked closely with and age to follow in her parents’ footsteps. performed works by Fernando Melo, RUBBERBANDance Kira started her training at the Westlake Group, MADBOOTS DANCE, and Banning Bouldin. In 2015, School for the Performing Arts in Daly Flores joined Loni Landon Dance Projects and shortly City, CA, where she trained intensively after became a member of Catapult Entertainment in their for 15 years. Alongside her primary training, Kira studied 2016 European and American tour. David has been a part at the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, where she of New Dialect since August 2016, where he performed had the privilege of working with Summer Lee Rhatigan, works by choreographers Banning Bouldin, Rosie Herrera, Bobbi Jene Smith, and Alex Ketley. She also participated Idan Sharabi, Yin Yue, and Joy Davis. Flores is currently an in Salt Dance Fest and New Dialect’s summer and winter active dancer, teacher, resident choreographer and outreach intensives. In 2014, Kira moved to Tucson, AZ to continue program co-leader with New Dialect, creative director for her training at The University of Arizona School of Dance, Sidra Bell Dance New York and an active collaborator/ where she worked with choreographers and teachers such performer for Loni Landon Dance Projects. as Guy Shomroni, Yaniv Abraham, Miguel Perez, Amy Ernst, and Tammy Dyke-Compton. She received her BFA in Dance SPENCER GRADY: Spencer is originally in 2017. Later that year, she moved to Nashville to train with from Redkey, Indiana. He received his BFA New Dialect as a scholarship student. Kira joined New Dialect in Dance from Ball State University, then as an apprentice in 2019, after performing Banning Bouldin’s went on to attend the Alexandria School The Triangle at Jacob’s Pillow. In addition to Kira’s work as a of Scientific Therapeutics for massage dancer, she is also a passionate teacher and choreographer. therapy. While in Indiana, Spencer worked Since 2014, she has created a number of award winning with Phoenix Rising Dance Company and works for young dancers. In 2019, Kira received the Youth s | k dancers, and in 2017, he produced America Grand Prix Outstanding Choreographer Award. The Washing, a solo in residency at the North American Laboratory for the Performing Arts. Spencer joined New LENIN FERNANDEZ: Lenin, a California Dialect as an apprentice in 2017. During his time with native, started dancing in 2010 at Mt. San New Dialect, he performed works by Banning Bouldin, Antonio Community College. In 2015, he choreographed for ND’s Third Voice, and taught community worked with Esklan Arts Factory (Erika classes. Here, he began creating a curriculum for Contact Silgoner) in Rome. For the last four years Concepts, a class incorporating contemporary floorwork he has been a frequent collaborator and bodywork principles. As a freelance artist, Spencer with Sonya Tayeh on multiple projects has worked in live performance, music videos, short films, including her NYLA (2016) and Jacob’s and teaching workshops. He has performed works by Pillow (2018) debut you’ll still call me by name, the Off- Kate Wallich and Sidra Bell, and has collaborated with Broadway show The Lucky Ones, pre-production for artists and organizations such as iiisquared, OZ Arts, Jeff Moulin Rouge, and Rent Live on Fox. Lenin worked with Carl, Imagine Dragons, Maniac Fantastic, Ball State Dance Teresa Barcelo, Erica Sobol, LA Contemporary Dance, Theatre, and Westlake School for the Performing Arts. In and Heidi Duckler Dance before joining New Dialect in 2019, he released the dance film CAVE in collaboration October 2019. Additionally, he has performed for Charissa with Austin Paul and Maniac Fantastic Productions, and KCDC’s repertory. Hadassah returned to Nashville in 2017 premiered a new work, Oct. 11, alongside Emma Morrison at and rejoined New Dialect as a company member this season. the inaugural Animata Arts Festival in Nashville. SARAH SALIM: Originally from North BECCA HOBACK: Becca is a dance artist Carolina, Sarah began dancing at the based in Nashville, Tennessee. She is Holly Springs School of Dance, Cary a founding member of New Dialect, Ballet Conservatory, and International and is featured in the company as a Ballet Academy. In 2009, she worked performer, outreach workshop team as a trainee with Carolina Ballet and in leader, community and company class 2011, joined Nashville Ballet 2 where she teacher, and choreographic assistant to started training under Banning Bouldin. artistic director Banning Bouldin. Becca Sarah danced with New Dialect from 2012-2019, where she began her solo project in 2018 to create, commission, performed in the premiere of New Dialect’s MultiLingual at and perform solo dance work that is evocative, theatrical, OZ Arts, Belinda McGuire’s Incorporeus, Banning Bouldin’s innovative, and experiential for both the mover and the Murmuration, Trisha Brown’s Planes, and Rebecca Allen’s viewer. She is an adjunct dance instructor at Harpeth Hall Kat5, Idan Sharabi’s Ella, Yin Yue’s PARA, and Roy Assaf’s and a guest instructor for the Metro Parks Dance Division. Girls. Sarah also workshopped with Bryan Arias, Peter Chu, Becca trained at the UNC School of the Arts, the Milwaukee Joy Davis, Laurel Jenkins, Alex Ketley, David Norsworthy, Ballet School, and Makaroff School of Ballet. She previously Riley Watts, and Shannon Gillen Lipinski. She is the worked for Nashville Ballet 2 and Montgomery Ballet. She co-founder of Animata Arts, a Nashville-based platform to has performed in works by Roy Assaf, Peter Chu, Bryan showcase independent creative talent. Arias, Fernando Melo, Léon & Lightfoot, Marco Goecke, Rosie Herrera, Yin Yue, Alex Ketley, Idan Sharabi, Belinda McGuire, Joy Davis, and Banning Bouldin. ABOUT THE MUSICIANS JEMAL WADE HINES (Production, Guitar, EMMA MORRISON: Emma is a Nashville Programming, Keys): Jemal Wade Hines native, who began her training at the has been recording and performing music Franklin School of Performing Arts in for over 30 years (starting by playing Franklin, TN. She began dancing with psychedelic punk and then studying New Dialect in 2013, and has since worked and performing in a polyrhythmic, just- with and performed the works of Banning intonation world music ensemble). Hines Bouldin, Peter Chu, Alex Ketley, Bryan is Moksha Sommer’s partner in HuDost. Arias, Yin Yue, Belinda McGuire, Joy Davis, Having toured the U.S., Canada, and Europe constantly and Roy Assaf. Along with being a dancer in New Dialect, since April 2006, HuDost has grown and expanded, Emma has assisted Banning Bouldin in creative processes travelled rocky and glorious terrain and marveled at all they for Salt Contemporary Dance, Groundworks Dance can learn and explore. Sommer and Hines in this time have Theater, Springboard Danse Montreal, and The Juilliard grown as artists, as seekers, as a couple and as a family. School Summer Intensive. She has led masterclasses at Since 2015, Hines has been a highly engaged activist, Belmont University, Salt Contemporary Dance, New Dialect doing advocacy work as a KY Congressional District Summer Intensives, and Groundworks Dance Theater. Representative for ONE (a non-profit organization working She is now leading the Contemporary program at Metro to end extreme poverty and, specifically, the sexism of Parks Dance in Nashville. Her most recent choreographic poverty). Hines has a degree in Sound Engineering and ventures have been in the contemporary opera scene, is a seasoned producer, guitar-experimenter and sonic premiering Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus in Fall ambient effect master. of 2019, and she is currently developing a multi-media collaboration inspired by the Dichterliebe song cycle by Robert Schumann. MATTHEW S. NELSON (Cello, String Arrange- ments): Matthew S. Nelson is a composer, cellist, and guitarist who has worked pro- HADASSAH PERRY: Hadassah attended fessionally in a wide variety of musical the Franklin School of Performing Arts roles since 1999. He is best known for his before beginning her training with touring work as bandleader for country Banning Bouldin in 2013. In 2014, she artist RaeLynn, his touring and session joined New Dialect as an apprentice and work with award-winning band Jars of participated in the Bates Dance Festival Clay, and his score (co-composed with Dan Haseltine) for and the Movement Invention Project, the hit original series The Chosen, the #1 crowdfunded where she trained with such artists as media project in history. In addition to album credits as Sidra Bell, Shannon Gillen, and Alexandra Wells. In 2016, diverse as JD Souther, Anderson East, Michael W. Smith, Hadassah moved to Israel to attend Kibbutz Contemporary and Hooray for the Riff Raff, Nelson has performed live with Dance Company’s study abroad program. There she had Amy Grant, Sleeping at Last, Steven Curtis Chapman, and the opportunity to create her own works and to research Cheap Trick, among a long list of others. He has appeared percussion/cymbals, Remo drumheads, Rebellion Drums on NBC’s Today, Late Night with Seth Meyers, The Ellen bodhráns, and Innovative Percussion sticks/mallets. He DeGeneres Show, Grand Ole Opry, NPR’s Mountain Stage, lives in Nashville, TN. and the TV drama series Nashville. Currently, in addition to working on new music with his neoclassical duo kïngpin- KAI WELCH (Horns): Conceived in a guïn, he is slated to return as co-composer for season 2 of tipi in Oregon and raised by parents he The Chosen. Matthew S. Nelson lives in Nashville, Tennessee. describes as “semi-nomadic, back to the land hippy homesteaders,” Kai Welch OZ FRITZ (Mixing and Mastering): Grammy is now a Nashville-based songwriter, Award-winner Oz Fritz has worked as an multi-instrumentalist, and producer, best audio professional and sound architect known for his work with Grammy-winners for over 40 years. Starting in live sound Kacey Musgraves and Abigail Washburn. reinforcement, Fritz transitioned into Recently nominated for an Album Of The Year award from studio recording after moving to New IBMA for his production of rising-star Molly Tuttle’s debut EP, York in the mid ‘80s. Highlights of his Kai continues to produce compelling music across multiple career include a long-time collaboration genres. His love for music and nature also led him to start with producer/musician Bill Laswell. They have worked Music for Wild Places, a non-profit concert series that takes on over 120 projects together in the recording studio, live participants on multi-day, musical adventures through some concert venues and remote field recordings with such of the world’s most beautiful wilderness areas. artists as L. Shankar, Material, Ginger Baker, Iggy Pop, The Ramones, Herbie Hancock, George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, OSCAR UTTERSTRÖM (Trombone): Oscar Tony Williams, Elvin Jones, Sonny Sharrock, William S. Utterström is a Swedish trombonist, Burroughs, Bob Marley, Icehouse and Yothu Yindi. Other composer, arranger and educator based engineering credits include Tom Waits, Miles Davis, Primus in Nashville, TN. His versatile playing and and HuDost. More recently he mixed and mastered the experience in many styles make him an new Flat Earth Society double album Untitled #0. Fritz in-demand session player on trombone, lives in Grass Valley, California and is working on a book bass trombone and euphonium. As in his spare time called Music, Magick and the Game of a freelance trombonist, Oscar has Life, Confessions of a Sound Engineer. Previews for this performed and/or recorded with acts such as Lauren book and more can be found on his blog, The Oz Mix: Daigle, Shania Twain, Kelly Clarkson, CeCe Winans, the https://oz-mix.blogspot.com/ Temptations, the Four Tops, My Morning Jacket, Diamond Rugs, Cage the Elephant, Taylor Swift, Little Big Town, and Chris Stapleton. He leads his own group, under his GUEST MUSICIANS name, in which he plays electric trombone and keyboard. The group has released two albums, Home (2008) and (Violin): Avery Bright is a AVERY BRIGHT Departure (2012), on the Right Turn Records label. Oscar violinist, violist, and founder of Stringcell has written horn arrangements for many different artists, Recording in Nashville, TN. He has played both for live use and recordings, including My Morning on recordings by OneRepublic, U2, Josh Jacket, Canadian superstar Johnny Reid and the Nashville Groban, Dolly Parton, and many others. Jazz Orchestra. Oscar has a B.M. in Music Business from Berklee College of Music and a M.A. in Jazz Studies from Middle Tennessee State University. Oscar plays exclusively on Schilke trombones and AR Resonance mouthpieces. Oscar’s books and arrangements can be BRYAN BROCK (Percussion): Bryan Brock is a seasoned percussionist specializing p u r c h a s e d t h r o u g h w w w . m a x w e l l t r e e m u s i c . c o m a n d in creative applications of rhythms, www.oscarutterstrom.com. instruments, and techniques from all DAN WALTERS (Bass): Electric bassist, over the globe. His unique blend of keyboardist, composer/arranger, singer/ creativity, versatility, and skill enhances a songwriter Dan Walters provides solid profusion of musical styles. Bryan earned side-musician support to many excellent a bachelor’s degree from the University artists and makes skillfully crafted music of North Texas and has studied throughout America, of his own that ranges from rootsy singer/ Cuba, and Ghana with percussion masters from African, songwriter through theatrical/cinematic Arabic, Brazilian, Cuban, and European traditions. Live guitar rock and into what is loosely called performance/touring credits include Frankie Valli, Melody “new music.” Dan dedicated his life to music at an early age Gardot, Tito Rojas, Nathan Pacheco, Anjani & Leonard and has been consistently and energetically involved in the Cohen, Incendio, Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band, and music business throughout the United States and abroad for the Clare Fischer Latin Jazz Band. Recording credits four decades. Included in his many recording credits are six include sessions for Dr. Dre, India.Arie, Sara Bereilles, Macy solo albums. His personal yet universal material genuinely Gray, Truth Hurts, HuDost/Jars of Clay and numerous films, resonates with listeners all over the world. His international video games, and commercial jingles. Bryan plays Meinl experience includes tours of Japan, Europe and Canada. 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