#JazzByTheLake: Actual Proof

The final show of the Fall season showcases the Quintet Actual-Proof: ive amazing artists who share a common vision and sensibility for Contemporary jazz.

Saxophonist/Flautist Brian Scherer is an active touring artist both in New York and Florida. Locally, he has been a featured player with The Maria DeSantis Orchestra, ESP, Funky Jazz Band and his own Quartet. Nationally he has shared the stage with Don Menza, Count Basie, Frank Sinatra Jr, and Martha Reeves, to name a few.

Bassist Ronnie France has a long local history working with Atlas Linen Company and Ronnie Leigh and Alliance. Nationally, he has worked as a touring bassist with Doc Severinsen. He has shared the stage with Paul Shaffer, David Clayton Thomas, and drummers Steve Smith and Dennis Chambers, and many more.

Guitarist Rick Balestra has been a featured soloist with The Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, Pops Orchestra, and Syracuse Opera Company. He is currently a professor of guitar at Colgate University, Hamilton College, and SUNY Oswego. For ten seasons Rick was the founder and facilitator for The Jazz Guitar Festival in Upstate N.Y., where he shared the stage with Peter Bernstein, Vic Juris, Mike Stern and many more.

Keyboardist Ed Vivenzio had major label success with the rock band 805 in the 80's with two releases on the RCA label. Since then he has played contemporary jazz around CNY with Dave Hanlon's Cookbook, Funky Jazz Band, and the Dave Hanlon Trio.

Drummer Evan DuChene toured with Inner City recording artists Dry Jack, backing such artists as McCoy Tyner and Freddie Hubbard. Locally, Evan is a member of the Sammy's winning group ESP. He's also a member of Monk Rowe's Ensemble, Five Families.

This is presented by The Ontario Center for Performing Arts Guest Curator Program and made possible in part by The New York Council on the Arts.

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