Shasta Power Trio

Schedule

Sat Jun 19 2021 at 07:00 pm

Location

Hungarian Cultural Alliance - Magtár | Los Angeles, CA

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After a long pause, we are reopening the Hungarian Cultural Center with the Shasta Power Trio, a San Francisco-based band composed of an Italian, an American and a Dutch musician, all three sharing an intense passion for Eastern European music, and in particular traditional Hungarian and Romani music from Hungary, Romania and surrounding countries. For this concert, they are joined by Janie Cowan (upright bass) and Jimmy Grant (guitar).
Doors open at 7 p.m.
Hungarian three-course dinner will be served starting at 8 p.m.
Admission $20
Dinner $30
Hungarian Cultural Alliance
1827 S Hope Street
Los Angeles 90015
Free street parking on Hope Street and 18th Street
Uber/Lyft/ride sharing highly recommended
The musicians' bios:
Marco Ghezzo (primas) grew up in a small town in the foothills of the Italian Alps. He started out playing the violin at the traditional music festivals of his region. At the age of 18 he fell in love with Hungarian and Romanian Roma music. For a while, he split his time between Romania and Italy, studying the violin in the Transylvanian village of Szaszcsavas and preparing his ethnomusicology thesis.
Andrew Cohen (accordion) has been playing music every day since he was seven years old. He graduated from the Hartt School of Music in 2006 and after a long and circuitous journey, Eastern European accordion music found his heart. He travels regularly to Romania where he studies with maestro Ionica Minune, and to Montreal to learn from maestro Sergiu Popa.
Balder ten Cate (cimbalom), born into a musicians family, grew up in the Netherlands but was steeped in Eastern European music from a young age, spending his childhood summers in Hungary listening to live music in the restaurants every night. He studied Romanian music with cimbalom master Giani Lincan, as well as, after moving to the Bay Area in 2008, music from the Balkans with Rumen Sali Shopov. Currently, Balder plays cimbalom in a number of Eastern European, and middle-eastern, ensembles that are local to the Bay Area, as well as in the international Trio Dulce Amar, and with his parents whenever they come to visit.
Alaskan grown Janie Cowan (double bass) studied at The Oberlin Conservatory of music, where she learned from such luminaries as Jamey Haddad, Eddie Gomez and Billy Hart. She followed the jazz and classical performance curriculums and is also drawn to the space and flexibility in modern music traditions, pioneering the double bass in different contexts with an unending thirst to explore it's reaches.
Native to Northern California, Jimmy Grant (guitar) grew up in a household full of rich musical influences. While his early influences also included Russian Folk, Balkan, traditional Hungarian, Bluegrass, Celtic and Classical, from a young age he gravitated towards the music of Django Reinhardt. He plays a blend of music from all over the world and his own compositions. He has studied with acclaimed guitarists Jim Nichols and Howard Alden, and in addition to Django Reinhardt, his other major musical influences are Sandu Ciorba, Bach, Kovacs Andor, Roby Lakatos and Angelo Debarre.
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Where is it happening?

Hungarian Cultural Alliance - Magtár, 1827 S Hope St, Los Angeles, CA 90015, United States

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