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Musicians Workshop Presents: Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks Competition

Musician’s Workshop presents a very unique experience where one lucky vocalist will get to sing with Dan Hicks & the Hot Licks. The in-home concert will take place on April 21 in Murrieta, CA, part of Southern California’s beautiful wine country.

Have you ever dreamed of being a Hot Lick? This is your chance.

Dan Hicks will personally listen to all entries and hand-select the “Hot Lick for a night”. Along with the opportunity to sing a song with the band at the performance, the selected artist will receive 2 tickets for the event, which is a very exclusive private event at an incredible estate home.

Saturday, Feb. 10 - “Valentine’s” In-Home Concert featuring CELTIC DREAMS with Scarlet Rivera (Bob Dylan, Tracy Chapman, Indigo Girls) & Eric Rigler (Titanic, Braveheart, Charlotte Church). This concert will be held at a private Estate Home and the exact address will only be given to ticket holders. Tickers are available On-Line at www.musiciansworkshop.org or by calling (951) 678-2517.

Scarlet Rivera is a U.S. violinist. Played violin on Bob Dylan's 1976 album Desire and the legendary Rolling Thunder Tour that followed. She also appears on Dylan's Live 1975 (2002).

She is probably most famous for her work with Bob Dylan, in particular on his album Desire and as part of the Rolling Thunder Revue.

Mr. Dylan is often credited for discovering the violinist. Before the rehearsal for his 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue tour, Scarlet was quite literally picked up off the street and invited to join in the rehearsals only because she carried a violin case on her back. Dylan had previously not had any experiences with her or her musical talent.

After an impressive musical session with the violinist, Dylan invited Scarlet to play on the famous Rolling Thunder Revue tour, and she accepted without thinking twice.

Later in her career, she also appeared on albums by Tracy Chapman (Crossroads), Keb Mo' (The Door), Stanley Clarke (Just Family), David Johansen (Funky but Chic), Ian McNabb (Head Like A Rock) and others.

Eric Rigler is known throughout the music industry as "the most recorded bagpiper of all time". He has been playing all forms of bagpipes and Irish Whistles since he was a child, performing solo, with bagpipe bands and other musical groups. It has been said that if one hears bagpipes in a movie or on television, it is most likely to be Eric Rigler. His playing was recently featured in a commercial for Titleist Golf and episodes of Battlestar Galactica on the SciFi Channel.

He has been featured playing Great Highland bagpipes, Scottish smallpipes, Uilleann pipes and whistles on numerous movie soundtracks, including Titanic, Million Dollar Baby, Road to Perdition, Braveheart, Cinderella Man, Austin Powers:The Spy Who Shagged Me and Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. He can also be regularly heard playing whistles and Uilleann pipes on the NBC show Crossing Jordan, and a version of his tune "Reels Part Two: My Love Is In America" was used as the theme song during the first season (found on the Bad Haggis CD 'Trip'). In Titanic, the tune "Hymn To The Sea" (written by James Horner) featured Rigler on the Great Highland Bagpipes.

Rigler played "Amazing Grace" at former President Ronald Reagan's funeral in 2004.

Rigler has performed with numerous musicians of many different styles, most famously with Scottish fiddler Alasdair Fraser and Skyedance, a band featuring some of the best Celtic musicians in the world. His work can be heard on CDs by Ben Harper, Barbra Streisand, Rod Stewart, Josh Groban, Phil Collins, Rubén Blades, The Battlefield Band and many other musicians.

Rigler plays pipes and whistles in the Celtic rock band Bad Haggis, based in Southern California. He occasionally performs with the L.A. Scots Pipe Band of Los Angeles, California. Rigler wrote the tune "The B-52", which is now performed by the L.A. Scots and many other top level bagpipe bands throughout the world, in both public performances and in competition.

 

Oct. 15 In-Home Concert to be the party of the year!


Canada's #1 party band for over 20 years is coming to Temecula for Saturn's Oct. 15 In-Home Concert. Because the concerts are held at private estates, the exact location is given to ticket holders only. Tickets are $45. and are available by calling 951 678-2517. Proceeds from this event benefit Musicians Workshop scholarship fund, and the Temecula Valley Cultural Arts & Music Center - building fund, Home to the Chuck Niles Memorial Jazz Library.

For over two decades Powder Blues has been one of Canada’s leading proponents of a vital music that incorporates some of the most vibrant elements of Swing, Blues, Rock and Roll and Rhythm and Blues into a readily identifiable sound they can truly call their own. This broad approach has resulted in an appeal whose demographic is so wide that it is not unusual to find people from seven to seventy swaying side by side at a Powder Blues concert. Throughout the years they have toured ceaselessly throughout Canada, the United States and overseas, spreading the joy of a music that makes people smile and dance.

Fads come and go, as in the current resurgence of interest in Swing and Jive music, but Powder Blues is no follower of trends; on the contrary, they seem to foresee trends and set them. When they first burst upon the recording scene in late 1979, with their self financed and self produced debut album, ‘Uncut’, after nearly two years of wood shedding and honing their unique blend of sounds in Vancouver’s then flourishing nightclub scene, the established recording industry label giants shrugged their effort off as ‘not commercial’. The band was told there was ‘no market for the blues’.

Not to be discouraged, the band pressed the album at their own expense and proceeded to sell it off stage and deliver it to radio stations. When the switchboards at the stations lit up with calls asking ‘who’s that?’ other stations followed suit. After selling nearly 30,000 copies in a matter of weeks, the major record labels came calling and entered a bidding war for the band’s services and the right to distribute this ‘non-commercial’ product nationally. RCA won the contract and to date that album has gone on to sell nearly a million copies worldwide.

Band highlights include winning Canada’s most prestigious National Music Award, the Juno, in 1981, headlining and recording a live album at the world famous Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland in 1983, being presented with the W.C. Handy Award in Memphis, Tennessee in 1986 and touring the Soviet Union and being released on Melodya Records in 1990. They have appeared in concert with such legendary names as Willie Dixon, John Lee Hooker, B.B. King, James Brown, Albert Collins, James Cotton, Stevie Ray Vaughn, the Who, ZZ Top, the Doobie Brothers, Edgar Winter and Tower of Power.

The Powder Blues currently have four CD titles in print; ‘First Decade/Greatest Hits’ on WEA Records, ‘Live At Montreux’, on Peerless Records, and ‘Let’s Get Loose’ on WEA Records and their latest CD titled ‘Swingin’ the Blues’ on Blue Wave Records which was released in September of 2001. The band continues to tour regularly and has never played less than 50 shows and sometimes as many as 300 shows in each of the 23 years they have been performing. Leader, Tom Lavin has written many of the band’s best-known songs, including ‘Doin’ It Right’ [‘On the Wrong Side of Town’] and ‘Boppin With the Blues’. Originally born in Chicago, Illinois where he learned his craft by watching and working with both cover bands and many of the local ‘blues legends’, Tom moved to Vancouver in the late sixties to study filmmaking. By night he made his living working as a musician in the thriving downtown nightclub scene. This eventually lead to his career as a studio musician and subsequently, to his role as record producer and studio owner.

Tom has been singing and playing guitar for a living for over 35 years. He has been presented with a number of awards including B.C. Music Industry Association awards for ‘Guitarist, Singer, Songwriter and Producer of the Year’, a Canadian Music Industry Association Juno award for ‘Best New Band’ and the American W.C. Handy award for ‘Best Foreign Blues Band’. He has over a dozen ‘Gold, Platinum and Double Platinum’ record awards for playing in, writing for or producing such bands as Powder Blues, Prism, April Wine, Long John Baldry, Amos Garrett, Susan Jacks, The Good Brothers and P.J. Jackson.

He has produced albums for many international labels including RCA, WEA, Capitol, Columbia, EMI, BMG, Polygram, Peerless and Stoney Plain Records and has produced albums or written songs for such notables as Long John Baldry, Amos Garrett and Lowell Fulson. His four story, 20,000 square foot recording complex, Blue Wave Studios has not only produced Gold Records for Powder Blues and numerous other artists, it has recorded sound for film, TV and radio. It is also home to Burkeville Productions, a company responsible for the themes, scores and jingles for countless movies, TV shows and products including Ford, McDonalds and Bell Telephone.

Paul Horn has recorded over forty albums during an illustrious career that has spanned four decades. Horn earned his Bachelor of Music degree at the prestigious Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio, followed by his Master's degree at the Manhattan School of Music in New York. After a stint in the Army, he briefly played in the Sauter-Finegan big band in New York, then toured and recorded with the famed Chico Hamilton Quintet.

By the early sixties Horn had moved to Los Angeles and formed his own band, the Paul Horn Quintet. In addition to fame as a jazz musician, he was in demand as a session musician and recorded with such legendary figures as Duke Ellington, Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Chick Corea, Buddy Rich, Quincy Jones, Joni Mitchell and Ravi Shankar.

In 1965 he earned two Grammy Awards with Lalo Shifrin for Jazz Suite on the Mass Texts and was nominated again in 1988 for Traveler in the New Age Music category.

In 1966 Horn began a seach for spiritual fulfillment and became involved with Transcendental Meditation, studying with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. He travelled several times to India as part of this journey. In 1968 he made a solo flute recording at night in the Taj Mahal and released an album called Inside (The Taj Mahal). This recording would sell more than 1,000,000 copies and became the seminal album for the musical genre known as new age music.

The Taj Mahal experience led to a series of recordings in extraordinary places: Inside the Great Pyramid (Giza, Egypt), China (two tracks in the Temple of Heaven, Beijing), Inside the Cathedral (Kazamieras Cathedral, Lithuania) and this recording Inside Canyon de Chelly.

Horn's music, especially in more recent years, reflects his personal and spiritual quests and goes beyond entertainment or aesthetics. In his autobiography, Inside Paul Horn: The Spiritual Odyssey of a Universal Traveler, Horn writes, "Music creates positive bonds among peoples and nations and cultures...music is the universal language precisely because it touches us at that deep essential, universal level. It has a unifying and healing power."

 

 

 

 

Cybill Shepherd

Valentine's - February 12, at the "Castle"

"Fresh off a sold-out run at London's Soho Theatre, Cybill is bringing her one woman show "Cybill Disobedience: Live... with Music!" to Temecula to benefit Musicians Workshop, The Theatre Foundation, and the Temecula Valley Cultural Arts & Music Education Center. The show is based on her New York Times best-selling autobiography "Cybill Disobedience" and will feature material from her lastest CD entitled "At Home With Cybill".

with reception music by

Scarlet Rivera

tickets $45. at Saturn of Temecula or call (951) 834-9802

Few women in the past three decades have lit up the American imagination like Cybill Shepherd. From wholesome beauty queen to captivating cover girl, from heartbreaking movie star to one of television’s most beloved comediennes, and from naïve sex kitten to liberated, political spokeswoman, Cybill has imbued these roles with an indomitable spirit that has made her, at fifty, a female icon to an entire generation. Last year, in her hilarious, gutsy, and insightful memoir, Cybill Disobedience: How I Survived Beauty Pageants, Elvis, Sex, Bruce Willis, Lies, Marriage, Motherhood, Hollywood, and the Irrepressible Urge to Say What I Think (Harper Collins), she tells her remarkable story as only she can—with humor, pathos, and in insatiable lust for life.

Recently Cybill appeared this spring in “Martha Stewart, Inc” for NBC. She starred as Martha Stewart in the tele-film. She also captivated audiences this spring with her guest-starring role on the two-part season final for “Eight Simple Rules For Dating My Teenage Daughter” on ABC.

Cybill also appeared in the feature film “Marine Life” directed by Anne Wheeler and written by Robert Forsyth III and Lori Lansens. Cybill portrayed ‘June’, a middle-aged lounge singer and mother. Marine Life revolves around the chaotic family life of ‘June’ as she tries to hold on to her career, her beauty, her children and her love- a tender but slightly confused younger man.

From 1995-1998 she starred as “Cybill Sheridan,” in the CBS sitcom “Cybill” where she played a forty-something actress trying to keep her career afloat in an industry that worships youth. This ground breaking show poked fun at topics such as plastic surgery, menopause, sex in your 40’s, divorce and grandmotherhood. Serving as Executive Producer, Cybill was also involved in the editing, casting and script development for the show. Last year Cybill hosted the one-hour television program “Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus”, inspired by John Gray’s best selling book by the same name.

Born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, Shepherd won ‘Model of the Year’ in 1968 from Stewart Models and has appeared on the covers of Life, Vogue, Glamour and People among others. She made her film debut in 1971 in the highly acclaimed “The Last Picture Show,” which led to starring roles in “The Heartbreak Kid,” “Taxi Driver,” “Daisy Miller,” “Alice, Married To It,” “Once Upon a Crime,” Texasville” ?and “Chances Are” just to name a few.

Shepherd’s theatrical experience include starring roles in “Shot in the Dark,” “The Seven Year Itch,” “Last of the Red Hot Lovers,” “Lunch Hour,” “Vanities” and “Picnic.” For television, Shepherd has starred in the series “Yellow Rose,” “Moonlighting” and has hosted the Emmy and Golden Globe awards. In addition to winning four Golden Globe Awards for best actress in a television comedy, she won four People’s Choice Awards and was honored with Bruce Willis as “Woman and Man of the Year in Broadcasting” by the Hollywood Radio and Television Society.

Shepherd has starred in numerous acclaimed television productions, including “Journey of the Heart,” “While Justice Sleeps,” “Baby Brokers,” “There Was A Little Boy,” “Stormy Weathers” (which she also executive produced) “Which Way Home for TNT,” the mini-series “The Long Hot Summer” and “Telling Secrets.” Additionally, Shepherd executive produced, co-wrote and starred in “Memphis,” based on Shelby Foote’s novel September, September.

Cybill started singing with her church choir at age eight, and began studying voice at sixteen. She has performed sold out concerts around the world blending rock, blues, ballad and standards as well as her own compositions. She has recorded nine albums, including “Cybill Getz Better” with Stan Getz, “Vanilla” with Phineas Newborn Jr., “Somewhere Down the Road” featuring a title cut with Peabo Bryson, “Cybill Does It To Cole Porter,” “At Long Last Love,” “Talk Memphis to Me,” and “Songs from the Cybill Show.” Her most recent album “Live at the Cinegrill” was released in 2001.

Cybill also established her own Internet web site, www.cybill.com, where fans can visit, keep updated on her myriad projects and interests, and purchase her CDs “Talk Memphis to Me” and “Cybill, Songs from the Cybill Show.”

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April 23 - Paul Horn

Oct 15 - TBA

(there will be no concerts in Dec.)

 

Saturn's 2004 In-Home Concert Series

SATURN’S IN-HOME CONCERT SERIES CONTINUES

WITH CANADA’S FINEST

 

Vocalist and Pianist, Jennifer Scott & Bassist Rene Worst From Vancouver British

Columbia, Canada with be featured December 4, 2004 as Saturn’s In-Home Concert

Series Continues. Tickets are $35. and available at three local businesses, Saturn of

Temecula, 27430 Ynez Road, Rancon Real Estate, 27740 Jefferson Ave, or by calling the

Theatre Foundation at (951) 834-9802. Jennifer Scott is a Vancouver-born vocalist and

jazz pianist specializing in jazz, blues and world music. Jennifer is considered one of the

most important jazz artists working in Canada today, as well as the United States. From

sold-out concerts in San Francisco to exclusive local club performances, Jennifer’s

performance experiences have been varied. Jennifer has appeared at Jazz Festivals all

across Canada and in several of the United States. She has also appeared with such jazz

luminaries as: Tommy Banks, Don Thompson, Kenny Wheeler, Skywalk, and Hugh

Fraser, to name a few. Rene Worst is considered one of the most important and versatile

Bassists working in Canada and the United States today. He is featured in Mark Miller’s

“Who’s Who of Jazz in Canada”. Worst has toured and performed with such legends at

Tom Scott, David Bowie, Chet Baker, Joe Pass, Herb Ellis, Howard Roberts, Charlie

Byrd, Barney Kessell, Freddie Hubbard, Phil Upchurch, John Handy, Don Thompson,

Paul Horn, Ernestine Anderson, Richie Cole, Bud Shank, Eddie Harris, Oliver Jones, and

many more. For more information call (951) 678-2517, or visit

www.musiciansworkshop.org #####

Jon Laskin

(951) 678-2517

email@jonlaskin.com

 

The "Voice" of Santana for 17 years, Alex has recorded and co-wrote eight albums for Santana MARATHON, ZEBOP!, BEYOND APPEARANCES, VIVA SANTANA, SHANGO, SPIRITS DANCING IN THE FLESH, MILAGRO AND THE LATEST SACRED FIRE

October 16, 2004 In-home "Fall Concert"

Alex Ligertwood

at the Estate of Harry & Linda Clark

Tickets available at Saturn of Temecula, the Rancon office on Jefferson or

call (951) 834-9802 & Leave your name & number

"There's something deep in the soul of Scotland that produces great blues and R&B singers. Some of rock's top vocalists over the years, from Rod Stewart to Maggie Bell to Santana's lead vocalist Alex Ligertwood, have come out of that musically fertile land. Alex grew up in the rough and tumble city of Glasgow. For him, it was a place just east of Detroit or Memphis. He loved American Music, especially Motown, R&B and the emotional charge packed by the leading soul singers of the sixties. It was raw, electric and didn't hold anything back. His musical idols included the legendary voices of Ray Charles, Sam Cook, Otis Redding and Marvin Gaye, good company for a budding vocalist. The Scotsman's natural talents didn't take long to recognize. One of the first to spot Ligertwood's big soulful voice was Jeff Beck. He promptly made Ligertwood lead vocalist for the Jeff Beck band in the early seventies. Next up was a stint with another legendary British band, Brian Auger's Oblivion Express. Alex recorded four albums with Auger's Jazz-Rock unit, delivering scorching vocals on tracks like "Truth", and also plying rhythm guitar, as well as co-writing the albums with Brian Auger.
During the same period, Ligertwood performed and recorded with fellow
Scottish soulmates, The Average White Band. A longtime friend of the band,
Ligertwood continues to do concerts and sessions with his Rhythm 'N' Roll
compatriots. His lead vocals are featured on three Average White Band
Recordings.
In the late seventies, Ligertwood served as Vocalist/Guitarist and co-writer
with Narda Michael Walden Band and the David Sancious & Tone Band before
joining Santana in 1979. It has proven to be an ideal match. Ligertwood
brings a vocal intensity that feeds the volcanic playing of Carlos Santana.
He has recorded and co-wrote eight albums for Santana: MARATHON, ZEBOP!
BEYOND APPEARANCES, VIVA SANTANA, SHANGO, SPIRITS DANCING IN
THE FLESH, MILAGRO AND THE LATEST SACRED FIRE.
A perfect showcase for Ligert-wood's vocal power is "SOMEWHERE IN HEAVEN", A
ballad from Milagro that brings both sides of Ligertwood and Santana - the
Lyrical and the fiery - together in a Passionate, Spiritual Tou-De-Force. The
song propels Ligertwood into the fromt ranks of R&B balladeers. Alex also
co-wrote this song with Carlos Santana.
Ligertwood lives in Santa Monica, California, with his wife. He is currently working on a
solo project and on various sountrack's as well as working on side projects with various
bands. His vocal talents were recently featured on the Spyro Gyro album "DREAM
BEYOND CONTROL". an honor considering Spyro Gyro is strictly an instrumental band."

Alex has recorded albums with Ben E King, Didier
Lockwood, Carly Simon, The Dixie Dreggs, Michelle Colombier, Pat Simmons of the
Doobie Brothers, Jeff Lorber and many others.

-the band-

David Garfield - Keyboards.
Garfield has one of those who’s who, what’s what resumes that begs the question, what HASN’T he done? Over the span of his carrer, he’s scored and recorded for films (“Annie”, “Always” with J.D. Souther), Television (“Fame” and its five accompanying “Kids from Fame” recordings), and commercials (Coca Cola, McDonald’s, Seven Up). He’s produced 15 albums and arreared on close to 80, with such artists as Cher, Boz Scaggs, Larry Carlton, Spinal Tap, The Manhattan Transfer, Keiko Matsui, and The Rippingtons); toured with Earl Klugh, Michael McDonald, Nancy Wilson, Oleta Adams / Luther Vandross, and Brenda Russell, and was musicial director for George Benson (from 1986-90) and Dianne Reeves; appeared on The Tonight Show, Arsenio Hall, and Solid Gold; and has composed and recorded over 100 original compositions.

Andrew Ford - Bass
Andrew has played bass with Chaka Kahn, James Ingram, Whitney Houston, Boney James, Micheal McDonald, Christopher Cross, Alphonse Mouzon, The Emotions, Gladys Knight, Norman Brown, Patti Austin, George Duke, Randy Crawford, Phill Perry, Dianne Reeves, Kirk Whalum, and Al Jarreau, among many others. he has also taught master classes at the Musicians Insitituein Hollywood (BIT), and at the University of La Verne, as well as writing, producing, and performing music for TV. He aslo has a song on the Al jarreau record “Tomorrow Today” and is a member of the band CPR featuring David Crosby, whose cd “Live at the Wiltern” featured such heavies as Phil Collins and Graham Nash.

 

Land Richards - Drums

Known as one of today’s most exciting live concert drummers and top-call studio session musicians, Land Richards has toured the world performing and recording with a who’s who of platinum and well-known recording stars such as Gladys Knight, Al Jarreau, Whitney Houston, Norman Brown, Gerald Albright, Randy Crawford, and Kirk Whalum. Land is also known for his song writing talents and is very popular in Japan where he has toured annually with Japan’s multi-platinum recording sensation, Namie Amuro.

 

 

 

Scarlet Rivera

SApril 24, 2004 - in Bear Creek

SCARLET RIVERA BIO
"Exciting, original, expressive and completely singular." These are but a few of the
words used to describe Scarlet Rivera.
Robert W. Butler of the New York Times said, "Miss Rivera shows herself to be one of
the best woman Jazz-Pop instrumentalists around, and quite simply one of the best
violinists playing today.
Her performances on Bob Dylan's Desire prompted John Rockwell of the New York
Times to say, "It is Miss Rivera who adds to Mr. Dylan's music more than anyone else.
Her playing is superb ... the rich gutty sound ... lends an amazing ominousness to the
songs ..."
George Kanzier of the Star Ledger in his review of A Tribute to Ellington wrote, "As a
violinist, Rivera was broadly lyrical on one of the most achingly tender ballads in the
Ellington-Strayhorn composition Daydream... she had no trouble invoking his Gypsy-
Jazz spirit and jaunty swing on the up-tempo numbers."
Though Scarlet is a composer and performer in her own right, she has made vital
contributions to Dylan's Desire and Hard Rain albums, the John Hammond special for
NBC, the film Renaldo and Clara and several cuts on Biograph and The Bootleg Tapes.
She is featured on Tracy Chapman's Crossroads; Stanley Clarke's Just Family; David
Johanson's Funky but Chic; Paraphenalia by Peacock Palace; Head Like A Rock by Ian
McNabb and Sounds of the Rain Forest by Scott Fitzgerald and Steven Longfellow Fisk.

SCARLET RIVERA BIO
She has toured extensively with the Indigo Girls, Tracy Chapman, The Duke Ellington
Orchestra and others and in 1994 she recorded her fifth solo album, Behind the Crimson
Veil, a European release on Erdenklang Records. She previously recorded Journey With
An Angel on Polygram International Records, followed by the CD Live in Montreux, as
well as two Warner Brother releases. Her group has performed in concert halls and
major festivals in the USA and Europe. A review from Le Rock-Jazz stated, "There is a
joyous energy and spirit of childhood in her compositions ... you will be drawn into it's
exotic beauty, pleasure and secret jubilation."
As a solo artist Scarlet is one of a handful of innovators of the violin who composes a
truly original style of music rich in melody and texture and in collaboration with
Tommy Eyre on Behind The Crimson Veil, realized the fullest expression of their
combined musical potential. Behind The Crimson Veil delivers an exotic blend of music
with performances from the searing to the sublime.
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SCARLET RIVERA BIO
Scarlet Rivera Discography
Billy Mann Killed By A Flower
Bob Dylan Biograph
Bob Dylan Bootleg
Bob Dylan Desire
Bob Dylan Hard Rain
Bob Dylan John Hammond Special
Bob Dylan Renaldo & Clara ( feature film)
Bob Dylan Volume 5 Bootleg Series – Rolling Thunder
David Johansen Funky But Chic
Dee Dee Bridgewater Just Family
Eyre, Marino, Ligertwood Seasons Greetings
Ferron Still Riot
Film music Little Mermaid
Film music Lord of the Rings
Film music One Night Stand
Film music The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway
Film score The Other Side of Joy
Ian McNabb Head Like a Rock
Indigo Girls 1200 Curfews
Indigo Girls I Don't Want to Talk About It
Keb Mo The Door
LA Guns American Graffiti
Manuel Iman Legacy
Mary Ellen McCabe Hero's & Heroines
Michael Hoppe Tea For Two
Peacock Palace Paraphenalia
Ramos, Rivera, Eyre Ritual
Rivera Journey With An Angel
Rivera-Eyre Celtic Dreams
Rivera-Eyre Behind the Crimson Veil
Rivera-Eyre Celtic Myst
Rivera-Eyre Celtic Spirit
Rivera-Eyre Classic Christmas
Rivera-Eyre Magical Christmas
Rivera-Eyre Voice of the Animals
Scott Fitzgerald Sounds of the Rainforest
Steven Fisk Angels & Miracles
Tracy Chapman Crossroads
Tracy Chapman Telling Stories

Eric Rigler

In just under a decade Eric Rigler has become one of Celtic music’s most sought-after recording session artists, bringing the timeless, haunting sonorities of the uilleann pipes, the Great Highland Bagpipe, the Scottish small-pipes and the low whistle to film, television, and recording audiences around the world.

Though best known for his work with composer James Horner as a soloist with the London Symphony Orchestra on the Oscar-winning films BRAVEHEART and TITANIC, Eric is featured on the soundtracks of dozens of other motion pictures including AUSTIN POWERS: The Spy Who Shagged Me, THE PRINCE OF EGYPT, THE NEGOTIATOR, THE DEVIL’S OWN, CITY HALL, THE FUGITIVE, and the IMAX documentary, EVEREST.

Among his television credits are Crossing Jordan for NBC, The Star Spangled Banner with Faith Hill for NFL Superbowl XXXIV, The 1999 Grammy Awards’ performance of the theme from Titanic with James Horner, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno performance with Charlotte Church, Newsradio for NBC, South Park for Comedy Central, Northern Exposure for CBS and a score of commercials. He is also one of the few non-Scots ever featured on the prestigious BBC Radio Scotland programs Pipeline and Music for the Pipes.

Familiar to concert audiences as a member of the Celtic supergroup “Skyedance”, Eric has played to sold-out houses in the United States, Great Britain and Europe. As guest artist he has appeared with Michael Sembello’s The Bridge, Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells 2, Paul McCartney’s Tripping the Live Fantastic and with one of Scotland’s longest running folk groups, “Battlefield Band”. His current band, Bad Haggis, fuses the ancient sound of the pipes with vocals, guitar, bass & drums, pushing the envelope into what has been called, “cutting-edge Celtic for the new millennium.”

His exceptional traditional playing and extensive studio experience have created a fluid style so much in demand that Eric is undoubtedly the most recorded piper in history — a top session musician practically living in studios from Hollywood to Nashville and Abbey Road. Some of his most recent work can be heard on CDs by such varied artists as Phil Collins (ÉHits), Barbra Streisand (Higher Ground), Tracy Chapman (Telling Stories), Rod Stewart (When We Were the New Boys), and Whitney Houston & Mariah Carey (The Prince of Egypt).

Eric’s career on the Great Highland Bagpipe began at age seven and he won the California state amateur championship while still in his early teens. He later moved to Scotland for further study and new competitive opportunities. Among other top individual honors he subsequently won were the prestigious Dunvegan Gold Medal on the Isle of Skye and the first “Young Piper of the Year” award from The Famous Grouse Whisky. Eric also began composing during this period and his popular tunes appear in the competition and recording repertoires of several World Champion Scottish and Irish pipe bands. It was while residing in Scotland that he was drawn to the evocative, dauntingly complex Irish uilleann pipes, one of the music world’s most en vogue ethnic instruments which appeals so much to today’s composers, artists and audiences.

“Over the last decade the generous fruits of Eric Rigler’s multiple musical lives have indeed borne a rich harvest of imaginative creativity, long may it be so.” — Irish Music magazine

2004 Concert Series Dates

Feb. 14, 2004 - Almeta Speaks with Tom Hazlitt

April 24, 2004 - Scarlet Rivera (Bob Dylan), Eric Rigler (Titanic, Breavheart)

Oct. 16, 2004 - Alex Ligertwood (Santana), Outdoor concert

Dec. 4, 2004 - Jennifer Scott, Jazz Vocalist/Pianist, Rene Worst, String Bass

 

s 2004 In-Home Concert Series, and according to Musicians Workshop director Jon Laskin, this year's series will be "over the top". "We had no idea how succesful this event would become when we began last year, it has already far exceeded our expectations" said Laskin. "The In-Home Concert Series began as a cultural event, in the spirit of community, which would not only feature professional musicians and recording artists in the intimate, personal setting of a lovely estate home, but one that would also benefit the arts, theatre, and music here in the Temecula Valley, and to that end we have brought in Artists such as Scarlet Rivera (Bob Dylan), Alex Ligertwood (Santana), Paul Horn, along with a list of Internationally acclaimed musicians, as well as raising thousands of dollars for the Theatre Foundation, The Arts Council of Temecula Valley, and Musicians Workshop." Laskin said. "Over 40 different buisnesses and individuals have all donated their time and services to help make this event one to be very proud of".

"2004 will be even better", with dates, Satuday Feb. 14, Saturday April 10, Saturday Oct. 16 and Saturday December 4.
The Feb. 14, Valentines concert will feature one of Canada's premire Vocalist/Pianist, Almeta Speaks, and world renown bassist, Tom Hazlitt. With reception entertainment provided by the Vintage Singers. Almeta Speaks exemplifies the philosophy that one should live and experience life to the fullest. She is vehement in stating that every life experience, talent and skill impinge on each other, giving an individual a strong base for optimum growth. Speaks, who is a pianist, composer, writer and singer, musicologist, and lecturer on African heritage, has won two Emmy Awards, is a respected television and radio producer both in Canada and the U.S.."People in your area may have watched my weekly television show from KPBS TV, San Diego which was on the air from 1975 to 1980. It was the series on which I won the Emmy awards.My most recent performances includes a two and one half year stint in the Vendome Lounge of the venerable Hotel Ritz in Paris where I live a part of the year. My audiences have included, Johnny Depp and his beautiful French wife, who is a star in her own right, Producer Tim Burton and his actress lady Helen Bonhan Carter, Boy George,and many others too numerous to name." She left her home in Reidsville, North Carolina, where she sang gospel from the age of 13, to sing in New York City. It was there that Speaks began to develop her unique musical style and to seek out role models of major statute. Performers like Carmen McRae, Dinah Washington, Edith Piaf, Barbra Streisand, and Bobby Short. She has perfromed in innumerable North American cities as well as across Africa, Australia, Europe, and in Hong Kong. In 1997 Sppeaks released two CD's on her own label: I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl, and Let There be Peace on Earth. Location for the Feb. 14 concert is to be announced. For tickets call (909) 587-6504, for more information call (909) 678-2517 or visit www.musiciansworkshop.org


2004 Saturn In-Home Concert Series

And is also Sponsored also in Part by

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Allure Model & Talent Agency
Artists Touch Studio
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Brad Adams
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Cilurzo Winery & Vineyard
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Country Review Magazine
Dan & Beverly Stephenson
Delyte's market place
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European Cafe
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Jodee's Bakery
Joseph Carroll Photography
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Temecula Valley News
The Californian
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VALLEY BUSINESS JOURNAL
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Home Mortgage Consultant

 

Musicians Workshop's

 

In-home Concert Series 2003

“In-home concerts have become popular in many major cities and communities
across the U.S., Canada and across Europe. As our society continues to
evolve with the incredible technological achievements made available today,
many people feel that we are compromising some of our sense of
community and culture. With this concert series I want to create an annual cultural event
in the spirit of community which will not only feature professional
musicians and recording artists in the intimate, personal setting of
a lovely estate, but one that will also benefit our Arts, Theatre,
and Music here in the Temecula Valley.” Jon Laskin - Executive Director

Musicians Workshop — In-home Concert Series
The Musicians Workshop, in co-operation with the Theatre Foundation and the Arts Council of
Temecula Valley, is currently creating a seasonal concert series following in the footsteps of the latest trend in community entertainment —In-Home Concerts. The Musicians Workshop Concert Series will focus around four major holidays each year: a winter holiday concert, Valentine’s concert, Spring concert and harvest concert. The concerts will feature professional musicians and recording artists in the intimate, personal setting of a lovely Temecula-Murrieta Valley estate.

2003 Concert Series Dates:
Friday Feb 14th - Scarlet Rivera (Bob Dylan,Tracy Chapman, Indigo Girls)
Sat April 12th & 13 - Alex Ligertwood (Jeff Beck, Santana)
Sat. Oct. 18 -to be announced
Sunday Dec 7th - Vocal sensation Sherry Williams

2003 In-Home Concert Series is Presented by Saturn of Temecula

Proceeds benefit The Arts Council of Temecula Valley, Theatre Foundation, Musicians Workshop
The Musicians Workshop, Theatre Foundation, and The Arts Council of Temecula Valley

are all non-profit 501 (c)(3) public benefit corporations and as such,

all contributions are tax deductible to the full extent allowed by law.

 

 

 

Almeta Speaks

with special guest Tom Hazlitt

Valentine's Day Saturday, Feb. 14, 2004

at RENAISSANCE ESTATES

CLICK HERE FOR DIRECTIONS / MAP

Reception Music provided by Vintage Singers 7p.m.

Concert begins at 8p.m. Limited seating available call (909) 834-9802 for Tickets by phone

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The 2003 Concert Series Included:

 

 

"A Taste Of Sherry" with

Sherry Williams

December 7, 2003

features Sherry Williams

at Brad Adams Bear Creek Estate

(909) 587-6504 for Tickets

 

SHERRY WILLIAMS is first and foremost a singer - the 14-karat variety. Since she began singing as a professional, Sherry has had the good fortune to rarely be out of work. “When I was a high school student in San Bernardino (California), I got a chance to sing and tour with THE YOUNG AMERICANS. That’s heavy stuff when you’re sixteen, but it gave me the foundation that I needed.”

After THE YOUNG AMERICANS, Sherry became a member of Disneyland KIDS OF THE KINGDOM group, then worked with the famous Roger Wagner and the UCLA CHOIR, both in Los Angeles and Europe.

THE UNUSUAL WE, a musical group composed of ten energetic performers, came next. Sherry joined the group in 1969 and began working with them in big time arenas and theaters like Las Vegas, Reno and Lake Tahoe. Fate stepped in again. Debbie Reynolds was so impressed with the group she signed them as an integral part of her nightclub act and concert tour. When THE UNUSUAL WE dissolved, Debbie asked Sherry to continue in the act, which she did.

Since then there have been numerous television appearances, (THE TONIGHT SHOW with Johnny Carson, THE GLEN CAMPBELL SHOW, THE TOM JONES SHOW, THE DELLA REESE SHOW, SOUL TRAIN and others), recording sessions (including albums with EL CHICANO and RED BONE) and more nightclub and concert tours. She has also toured with Andy Gibb, and the legendary Johnnie Ray.

In 1976, Sherry left THE EDDIE KENDRICKS SHOW and struck out on her own, touring Indonesia, Singapore, Hong Kong and Bangkok. There, she performed in the finest hotels, polishing her nightclub act and developing the elegant style for which she is now known.

Since returning to the United States after her last Asian tour in 1980, Sherry has acted in films and on television, and continues to perform in and around Los Angeles in nightclubs, jazz venues and concerts.

To watch her work is to see a most exciting performer. To meet her is to know that she is star material. The Sherry Williams story is to be continued...

Paul Horn has recorded over forty albums during an illustrious career that has spanned four decades. Horn earned his Bachelor of Music degree at the prestigious Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio, followed by his Master's degree at the Manhattan School of Music in New York. After a stint in the Army, he briefly played in the Sauter-Finegan big band in New York, then toured and recorded with the famed Chico Hamilton Quintet.

By the early sixties Horn had moved to Los Angeles and formed his own band, the Paul Horn Quintet. In addition to fame as a jazz musician, he was in demand as a session musician and recorded with such legendary figures as Duke Ellington, Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Chick Corea, Buddy Rich, Quincy Jones, Joni Mitchell and Ravi Shankar.

In 1965 he earned two Grammy Awards with Lalo Shifrin for Jazz Suite on the Mass Texts and was nominated again in 1988 for Traveler in the New Age Music category.

In 1966 Horn began a seach for spiritual fulfillment and became involved with Transcendental Meditation, studying with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. He travelled several times to India as part of this journey. In 1968 he made a solo flute recording at night in the Taj Mahal and released an album called Inside (The Taj Mahal). This recording would sell more than 1,000,000 copies and became the seminal album for the musical genre known as new age music.

The Taj Mahal experience led to a series of recordings in extraordinary places: Inside the Great Pyramid (Giza, Egypt), China (two tracks in the Temple of Heaven, Beijing), Inside the Cathedral (Kazamieras Cathedral, Lithuania) and this recording Inside Canyon de Chelly.

Horn's music, especially in more recent years, reflects his personal and spiritual quests and goes beyond entertainment or aesthetics. In his autobiography, Inside Paul Horn: The Spiritual Odyssey of a Universal Traveler, Horn writes, "Music creates positive bonds among peoples and nations and cultures...music is the universal language precisely because it touches us at that deep essential, universal level. It has a unifying and healing power."

 

 

 

The "Voice" of Santana for 17 years, Alex has recorded and co-wrote eight albums for Santana: MARATHON, ZEBOP!
BEYOND APPEARANCES, VIVA SANTANA, SHANGO, SPIRITS DANCING IN
THE FLESH, MILAGRO AND THE LATEST SACRED FIRE.

April 12 & 13, 2003 In-home "Spring Concert"

Alex Ligertwood

"in the heart of Temecula Wine Country"

at the Estate of Louis & Sherry Di Bernardo

Tickets available at the Rancon office on Jefferson or

call (909) 587-6504 & Leave your name & number

"There's something deep in the soul of Scotland that produces great blues and
R&B singers. Some of rock's top vocalists over the years, from Rod Stewart
to Maggie Bell to Santana's lead vocalist Alex Ligertwood, have come out of
that musically fertile land.
Alex grew up in the rough and tumble city of Glasgow. For him, it was a
place just east of Detroit or Memphis. He loved American Music, especially
Motown, R&B and the emotional charge packed by the leading soul singers of
the sixties. It was raw, electric and didn't hold anything back. His musical
idols included the legendary voices of Ray Charles, Sam Cook, Otis Redding
and Marvin Gaye, good company for a budding vocalist. The Scotsman's natural
talents didn't take long to recognize.
One of the first to spot Ligertwood's big soulful voice was Jeff Beck. He
promptly made Ligertwood lead vocalist for the Jeff Beck band in the early
seventies. Next up was a stint with another legendary British band, Brian Auger's
Oblivion Express. Alex recorded four albums with Auger's Jazz-Rock
unit, delivering scorching vocals on tracks like "Truth", and also plying
rhythm guitar, as well as co-writing the albums with Brian Auger.
During the same period, Ligertwood performed and recorded with fellow
Scottish soulmates, The Average White Band. A longtime friend of the band,
Ligertwood