Feb. 28th, 4:00 - 5:30 PM | Free - Donations Appreciated | Livestream on TBT's Facebook
Please join up-and-coming guitarist Morgan Giosa and his band of musical phenoms on Sunday, February 28th via a livestream on TBT's Facebook. The band will be performing traditional blues in the style of B.B. King, as well as some jazz favorites as a fundraiser for The Buttonwood Tree.
About Morgan:
Morgan Giosa is a web developer, blues guitarist, photographer, and visual artist from Windsor, Connecticut. A self-described “old soul”, Morgan feels his music is most rooted in inspiration from the electric psychedelic blues of the 1960s (artists such as Michael Bloomfield and Jimi Hendrix are among his favorites), as well as influenced by the greatest electric bluesmen of all time (particularly B.B. King and Albert King, two of his favorite musicians). Morgan has been composing original music with the guidance and collaborative input of his mentor and friend and guitar teacher, Frank Varela. The two, alongside drummer Alex Giosa and bassist Bob Laramie and some special guests, recorded an album under the band name Fake News Blues Band in late 2017. Their debut self-titled album was released on June 6th, 2019 and is available on all major streaming platforms.
Rudi Weeks has been a professional musician and music teacher for over forty-five years. He has performed with such 60s greats as The Contours, The Crests, and Ronnie Spector, and Folk and Bluegrass legends Tom Paxton and Tony Trischka. His extensive freelance performance and recording experience includes projects with over thirty ensembles, performing styles that range from classical, big band swing, jazz, Latin jazz, to world beat, R&B, funk, and rock.
He currently teaches at Holyoke Community College Music Department, Downtown Sounds in Northampton MA, Guitar Center in West Springfield and at his home. He is a 20-year veteran of the popular Motown group Souled Out (currently called Center Stage)/ Magic of Motown/ Motor City Magic, and a 26-year veteran of the highly acclaimed Andean influenced world music group, Viva Quetzal.
Dan
Hartington is a guitarist with a diverse performing and teaching career and
regularly collaborates on music of all styles with other musicians, actors,
dancers, and writers. As a classical guitarist he was a founding member of the
New England Guitar Quartet, has performed on numerous concert series including
the Hillstead Museum Sunken Garden Poetry and Musical Festival, the Connecticut
Guitar Society, and he was the founding Director of the Hartford Classical
Guitar Ensemble. As an electric and commercial guitarist, he is very
active as a pit musician in regional and off-Broadway productions and has
worked at the Ogunquit Playhouse, Goodspeed Opera House, Norma Terris Theater,
Ivoryton Playhouse, and Connecticut Repertory Theater. He is faculty member in
the Performing Arts Department at Eastern Connecticut State University and at
The Hartt School of Music, University of Hartford.
Alex Giosa is a drummer/percussionist from Windsor, Connecticut. He is
currently a substitute drummer for the Broadway show, Hamilton: An American
Musical, and has played drum set on several regional theater productions,
including In the Heights at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. Alex is also
employed by Andrés Forero, the drum captain for Hamilton, as a drum tech and
audio engineer, where he has worked on tracks for Bob Ezrin and Raul Midon. To
this day, Alex has performed in over 40 local and regional musical theater
works, including at the Westport Country Playhouse, Ivoryton Playhouse and the
Goodspeed Opera House.
To Contact The Buttonwood Tree:
www.buttonwood.org / 860.347.4957 / TheButtonwoodTree@gmail.com
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