Gold Lion Arts Summer FestivalPerformances by:
Rent Romus' Life's Blood Ensemble, Snake or Man (Steuart Liebig and Dax Compise)
Amy Reed and Collette Jay McCaslin, Grex
Grex (
Karl Evangelista-guitar/vocals/drums, Rei Scampavia-keys/vocals/drums) is an art rock band based out of Oakland, California. In biological terms, a “grex” is an entity composed of several smaller organisms. Grex (the band) explores the meeting point between fun, delightfully strange psychedelic pop/rock and the dark outer reaches of noise and free jazz. The group’s striking “two man band” configuration recalls a spectrum of wild duos ranging from The White Stripes to Skeleton Crew.
Rent Romus' Life's Blood Ensemble
Saxophonist
Rent Romus’ visionary group Life’s Blood Ensemble presents music from their new release of Rising Colossus, a milestone project of musical exploration of emergence and multiple movements. Featuring original compositions including a reprise of work written for Romus by late saxophonist legend John Tchicai as well as Anthony Braxton’s Composition 23J provided by Tri-Centric Foundation.
Rent Romus – alto saxophone,
Timothy Orr – drums, Max Judelson – double bass
Scott Walton – double bass,
Joshua Marshall – tenor saxophone,
Mark Clifford – vibes, Heikki “Mike” Koskinen – e-trumpet
Amy Reed and Collette McCaslin
This Sacramento/Bay Area Duo released their first album together in late 2015. The free improvisational duo combines electronics, brass, guitars, voices and whatever else is at their disposal to make beautiful sound collages.
Amy Reed-guitar, voice
Collette McCaslin-trumpet, electronics, voice
Snake or Man
A dynamic duo exploring grooves and textures, force and finesse, form and expression.
Steuart Liebig - Bass
Dax Compise - Drums
Hosted by NSAA
Poet, prophet, activist, podcast host, singer, graphic artist and many more things. NSAA is the glue to all things creative in Sacramento. He is one of the hosts of the "Black Talk Sacramento" podcast as well as the "Coffee and Poets" spoken word series.
Cost: $20 Day $35 Festival Pass
Videos featuring musicians playing at this event
A montage of the free music group the Lords of Outland from their live presented as part of The Tenderloin Museum’s Sounds of the Tenderloin live music series at the Tenderloin National Forest in San Francisco July of 2022
Featuring Rent Romus on alto/soprano saxophones, Ray Schaeffer on bass, Anthony Flores on drums, and Philip Everett on