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Galen Fous

Born: May 5, 1950

Galen Fous Collective - Mythic Acoustic Jazz Fusion - Enlivened Ambiance for Contemporary Events & Venues Galen Fous is a Portland based, innovative, acoustic guitar stylist, composer and an accomplished singer/songwriter. He plays solo, or as duo or trio, depending on the venue. His music is highly original and combines elements of jazz, latin, brazilian, celtic, rock, classical, contemporary folk and more into a modern fusion of traditional genres. The songs he and his group weave are rich in mythos and emotion lyrically and musically. Galen's compositions are held within unique chordings, diverse rhythms, and am amazing finger-style technique developed over the last 30 years

Leo Alvarez

Born: October 17

Born in 1969 in San Antonio de Padua, Buenos Aires. Leo started studying guitar at the age of fourteen. He was highly influenced by his grand father who used to sing and play very well the guitar performing beautiful folk tunes. He first studied with a local teacher close to his home, who introduced Leo into the fascinating world of jazz. Later, he studied for more than five years with Armando Alonso, founder of the Jazz career at the Official music school EMPA (Escuela de Musica Popular de Avellaneda). Leo is a composer, guitar player and arranger. Currently, he is also teacher at the upper stage of the Jazz Guitar career at the EMPA. He leads his own project since 1995 (Leo Alvarez Jazz Quintet) with original compositions, and has recorded two CD’s (“Contraluces” and “Algunas Consideraciones”) which received very good reviews. He has developed a very solid soloist career as well as a sideman on stage and studio, performing with renowned local singers as Sandra Mihanovich, Livia Barbosa, Monica Posse, among others

Loretta Heywood

Loretta Heywood is a soulful songstress, best known for her ethereal vocals with 90’s electronic band Bomb The Bass. In 1991, after 9 years in Japan where Loretta recorded ‘Tribe of Love’ & ‘Touch Me Take Me’ for Tosh & Kudo (Love TKO / Major Force), Tim Simenon heard her recordings and asked her to sing on the next Bomb The Bass album. The result was the hauntingly beautiful Winter In July, co-written by Tim, Loretta and Guy Sigsworth. It subsequently became a major hit in Europe, featuring on countless Chill Out compilations, and earned its place in dance music history as one of the classic records of that time

Stefanos Tsourelis

Born: January 1, 1979

Using the oud and guitar as his vehicle, Stefanos imprints his experiences from Greece and London on his music, taking the audience on an authentic journey that uniquely fuses Mediterranean music with jazz. The collaboration with bass player Dave Jones and drummer Eric Ford allowed the project to creatively evolve to its final form. Currently, the trio presents its debut album “Native Speaker” as well as new material while performing in the UK and abroad, at venues and festivals including the EFG London Jazz Festival, Ealing Jazz Festival, Teignmouth Jazz Festival, the Bulls Head, Jazz Cafe POSK, the Vortex and the Green Note

LuWii Lumibao

Born: October 5, 1989

LuWii started playing the guitar when he was 14 years old, although, his mother gave him as a gift his first guitar when he was 11 years old. LuWii did not have time to pursue learning guitar at a deeper level since his priority was finishing high school and college. During high school and college, he did not play jazz. He listened to Jazz, and to different genres related to it such as Bossa Nova. After a year graduating from college, he started his music career. Playing in small time cafes and restaurant, LuWii started playing music in the mainstream genre. After a year and a half of being exposed to the performing industry, he enrolled in a music school.

Ruben Machtelinckx

Ruben Machtelinckx is a prominent member of the Belgian and European improvised, experimental music scene. As a guitarist, but equally as a composer. Since the very start of his artistic course, he focusses on personal projects. 
 In 2013 the quartet Machtelinckx/Badenhorst/Jensson/Wouters released their debut, ‘Faerge’. The album was praised by international press and was listed ‘Best Belgian jazz release’ by KNACK magazine. Later the band issued a second album, ‘Flock’. 
 For many years, Machtelinckx is part of Linus, a duo with saxophone player Thomas Jillings. Their lauded debut, ‘Onland’, was followed by very specific collaborations

Mark Leighton

Erhan Ersin

Guitarist & Composer Istanbul born Turkish guitarist and composer, starting on classical guitar at the age of 15. Then rock and jazz in the following years. At the age of 16, starting to play with his high school band and won the “Best Perfroming Band of Turkey” award in a nationwide music competition. After his intensive study of guitar and composition as self-taught musician, he moved to England to improve his musical talent at the age of 19. Afterwards musical journey continued in Germany and France. Over the years, he performed as accomplished musician in Europe by playing together with bands and styles like jazz, big band, rock, blues, funk, soul, new age, aiming to expand his musical vision

David Regueiro

Born: December 10, 1979

Graduated by different conservatories and universities, has studied and/or played with some of the most internationally outstanding musicians, such as: Joaquín Chacón, Abe Rábade, Paco Charlin, Albert Sanz, Peter Bernstein, Philip Dizack, Taylor Eigsti, Joe Sanders, Rodney Green, Logan Richardson, Sam Harris, Aidan Carroll, Tommy Crane, Virxilio da Silva, Steve Brown, Philip Catherine, Bob Sands, Bobby Martínez, Victor Wooten, Carlos Carli, German Kucich, Albert Bover, John Georgini, Pepe Rivero, Perico Sambeat, Bart Van Lier, etc. He has played at Festivals in Spain, such as: “Lugo Jazz Festival”, “Imaxinasons” (Vigo Jazz Festival), ”Ribadavia Jazz Festival”, Salamanca Jazz Festival”, “Ponteareas Jazz Festival”, etc. Among his released works, it is worth mencioning the album Roots, with the band Jazzeros Inoxidables

Nikhil Yerawadekar

Multi-instrumentalist and producer Nikhil P. Yerawadekar creates propulsive new flavors with his Low Mentality project, delivering personal and uplifting original songs suitable for dancefloors, car stereos and headphones worldwide. The group plays organically cultivated styles drawing from Nikhil’s wide range of experiences, from his formative years as a teenage hip-hop junkie in Queens, NY, to later in his life when he found himself working closely with artists such as Hailu Mergia (Awesome Tapes From Africa), Zap Mama, Tony Allen, Cedric “Im” Brooks and Khaira Arby, and performing all over the world with Antibalas and collaborators such as Santigold, Sharon Jones, Billy Gibbons, Nels Cline and Esperanza Spalding. The hidden intersections between these broad-ranging musical vibrations are reflected in Low Mentality’s debut album Everything Lasts Forever, released April 2016 on 3rd Generation Recordings, with its lead single “Six Shooter AKA The History Of Dance” (featuring Kendra Morris) reaching over a million plays on Spotify