Odds and Ends
Jaroba,
Dave Mihaly and
David Samas: solos and trios
@ Turquoise Yantra Grotto
Friday February 20, 8-10 pm
32 turquoise way sf ca 94131
$10-15
Join us for a playful evening of free improv, poetry, comedy, storytelling and song with oddball performers Jaroba,
Dave Mihaly and
David Samas.
Jaroba aka James Robert Barnes musician / composer/ visual artist. Has performed jazz blues 20th century and experimental music. Jaroba has written music for Flatwater Shakespeare company. And has been awarded by the Kennedy center for best original music for stage.
Currently Jaroba has been exploring compositions with home made instruments, electronics and improvisation.
Jaroba lives in San Francisco
Dave Mihaly is a musician/composer who has played in many groups. He has played rock, jazz, blues, experimental, chinese, reggae, funk and many types of folk music. (Perhaps it's all folk music). He just recorded and sequenced an album in Antwerp, Belgium which will be available in late spring of 2015. www.davemihaly.com
David Samas is a composer, cosmologist, poet, painter, performer, philosopher, farmer and father of 4; he is a practitioner and professor of arcane healing technologies and traditional magics. He has a BFA from the SF Art Institute in conceptual art and studied poetics at the New College of California, Vassar, Bennington and S.F. State. As a young man he performed with the SF Boys Chorus, the SF Opera and the SF Symphony with which he won a GRAMMY for the “best classical recording” of 1994. He also makes sacred geometry amulets and talismans, is an excellent cook, and self publishes small editions of hand bound art books when he isn't hosting at one of the two Bay Area venues he curates: the Window Gallery at the Center for New Music SF and Turquoise Yantra Grotto.
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The Turquoise Yantra Grotto is a house concert series for avant improvisers and invented instrumentalists with a focus on ethno-modernism and extended techniques. We hold a monthly event which is part concert, and part social club, near glen canyon in San Francisco.
Cost: $10-15