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KoMaGa Trio At MONCA - Postponed

Saturday, 22 Aug 2020 @ 3:00 PM Past Event
KoMaGa Trio at MONCA - Postponed
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Due to an abundance of caution to prevent the spread of coronavirus, this event is postponed until further notice.

Norton Buffalo Hall WEST

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monca

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Performing twice to limited audiences (40 each) for responsible social distancing!

KoMaGa Trio

Motoshi Kosako (Jazz Harp) Michael Manring (Bass) Chris Garcia (Percussion)

Friday, May 29, 2020 3PM and 7PM shows Audience limit of 40 per show

Doors open at 2:30PM 6:30PM

Donation $25 online $30 at the door

Refreshments Drinks Available

Kosako + Manring + Garcia

Motoshi Kosako: harpMichael Manring: fretless electric bassChris Garcia: tabla, percussion

These three virtuoso instrumentalists team up to play unique original jazz/ethnic cross over music rich in improvisation. For lovers of musical sublimity and adventure, this is a must-see must-hear collaboration!

About Motoshi Kosako:

https://www.harpmusician.com

Born in Matsuyama City, Japan. He started his musical training on the piano and also the guitar. In Tokyo he played the acoustic and electric guitar in professional Jazz bands and the Swing Journal magazine described him as one of the most remarkable young Jazz musicians.

In 1997, Mr. Kosako moved to the United States and soon after he started playing the harp. He is primarily self- taught with a few lessons to learn fundamental harp technique. He was the principal harpist of Stockton Symphony Orchestra in California between 2005-2010 and the featuring soloist for 2009-2010 season.

His latest music innovation is improvisation and composition for the harp. In 2007 he won the second place in Lyon & Healy International Jazz & Pop Harp Competition and received the Best of Sacramento award from Sacramento Magazine as Best Jazz Hound in Tie and Tail. Sacramento Magazine says, Kosako plays with fluid, modern style that evokes Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea. His groundbreaking style is also noted in Harp Column as Motoshi Kosako, a Japanese native whose introspective soloing was reminiscent of Keith Jarrett. He plays numerous original compositions and standards as solo or in trio and quartet. Since 2008 he started touring internationally to give performances and various workshops and he is considered as one of the most influential Jazz harpist in the world. He tours internationally to give concert, lectures and workshops. The numerous international music festivals he was invited are including The future of harp in Yokohama in Japan, VIII Rio Harp Festival in Rio de Janeiro, brazil, American Harp Society National Conference 2014 in New Orleans and World Harp Congress, Sydney 2014 in Australia.

He performs improvisation and original compositions as solo or in ensembles with top jazz musicians including Grammy award winning reeds player, Paul McCandless, master acoustic bassist, Bill Douglass, innovative electric fret-less bassist, Michael Manring. He released 2 classical solo albums in 2002 and 2003, and 10 jazz albums between 2008 and 2017.

In 2008, he joined NPO holistic health research group in Japan (Total Health Research Group) and began conducting research projects involving sound healing and practical application of music to occupational fields for the promotion of health. In 2012 the public medicine professional journal, Science of Public health in Japan published his research article Total Health and Music. He holds a B.S of health science and nursing, and is a registered nurse and public health nurse along with 2nd degree black belt of Judo.

About Michael Manring:

http://www.manthing.com/Manthing/home.html

Hailed by many as the worlds leading solo bassist, Michael Manring has been pushing back the boundaries of whats possible on the bass guitar for over three decades. While his technical skill and innovations always make an impression, it is his ability to communicate on a profound emotional level that most touches listeners.

Building on the conceptions of his teacher, the late bass legend Jaco Pastorius, Michael has developed a new approach to the instrument that includes unorthodox tunings, techniques and methodologies. He has honed his skills on hundreds of recordings as a session musician and thousands of concerts throughout the world in venues including Carnegie Hall in NY, Yamaha Hall in Tokyo and Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco. Michael has worked with a surprisingly diverse collection of musicians from New Age keyboardist Suzanne Ciani to avant-improv guitar innovator Henry Kaiser to celebrated folk troubadour John Gorka to experimental post-metal rockers Tim Alexander (Primus) and Alex Skolnick (Testament) to electro-pop pioneer Thomas Dolby. His long-term collaboration and close friendship with the late acoustic guitar genius Michael Hedges led to a lengthy stint as house bassist for Windham Hill Records; a label for whom he also worked as a solo artist, releasing four recordings under his own name: Unusual Weather (1986), Toward the Center of the Night (1989), Drastic Measures (1991) and Thonk (1994).

He has garnered two gold records, Grammy and Bammie nominations, a Berklee School of Music Distinguished Alumni Award, two Just Plain Folks Awards and numerous Bass Player Magazine Reader's Poll awards including 1994 Bassist of the Year. He was also the subject of a PBS TV documentary, The Artist's Profile: Michael Manring and a Youtube video of him playing his iconic solo piece Selene has well over a million views.

In his solo concerts Michael weaves together his musical influences into a tapestry rich with expression, virtuosity, humor and meaning. We hope you'll follow the advice of France's Musicien magazine: "Do not miss your next opportunity to discover the bassist with the most fresh and inventive playing today."

About Chris Garcia:

https://christophergarciamusic.weebly.com/

A native of (EAST)Los Angeles, Christopher is a critically acclaimed performer, improviser, composer, and educator who has made a career with over 1200 performances in 28 countries on 5 continents, either on Western drumset, percussion of North and South India, percussion of indigenous Mexico, Meso America or his own unique percussion configuration called EL MONSTRO which contains instruments from all of the above all within arms reach.

His fascination with rhythm and the color of sound allows him the opportunity to be a group member and frequent collaborator/composer with various critically acclaimed classical, jazz, rock, and world music ensembles with whom he continues to concertize with in the US and abroad.

His website on indigenous instruments of Mexico and various YOUTUBES demonstrations of the instruments in solo and ensemble settings continues to be acknowledged as an excellent educational overview to these instruments, their histories and performance practices with an average of 3,000 visits per month.

As a composer he continues to garner critical and popular acclaim and commissions for indigenous instruments of Mexico/Mesoamerica and India and classical guitar, marimba, piano, string quartet, western harp and woodwind quintet.

For more info call 762-1490 nortonbuffalohall@gmail.com
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