Tuesday, January 11, 2022, 7:30pm to 9:30pm (Streaming may be available at a later date)
Vitamin Em is a musical collective made up of Grammy(R)- and award-winning musicians from around the Bay Area who celebrate jazz, funk, R&B, soul and fiddle music with enthusiasm. Founded in 2016 by violist Emily Onderdonk, Vitamin Em presents a broad and exciting range of improvisatory styles of music to audiences in the Bay Area and beyond. The band is serious about having fun, and its members, steeped in an abundance of musical traditions - jazz, funk, blues, Klezmer, indie, rock, Balkan, fiddle, classical, - bring a wealth of experience, creativity and fearless improvisation to each performance. Vitamin Em members love playing together and sharing with audiences a fun-loving spontaneity and exhilaration for the groove.
Vitamin Em has appeared around the Bay Area as featured artists with: Mason Bates and Mercury Soul, Berkeley Symphony & Friends, Piedmont Piano Company, Pt. Richmond Jazz, Epworth Community Concerts. Members can also be found collaborating, recording and/or touring with artists such as Wayne Shorter, Santana, Beyonce, Paquito D'Rivera, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Hot Club of San Francisco, Brothers Comatose, Klezmatics and performing at SF Jazz, in the pit of Hamilton and in the San Francisco Ballet and Opera orchestras.
Performers:
Matthew Szemela - violin
Evan Price - violin
Emily Onderdonk - viola
Michael Graham - cello
Paul Hanson - bassoon
Dan Cantrell - accordion
$30, free to students through high school, and $15 for Higher Ed students.
Presented by Berkeley Chamber Performances.
Tuesday, January 11, 2022, 7:30pm to 9:30pm (Streaming may be available at a later date)
Vitamin Em is a musical collective made up of Grammy(R)- and award-winning musicians from around the Bay Area who celebrate jazz, funk, R&B, soul and fiddle music with enthusiasm. Founded in 2016 by violist Emily Onderdonk, Vitamin Em presents a broad and exciting range of improvisatory styles of music to audiences in the Bay Area and beyond. The band is serious about having fun, and its members, steeped in an abundance of musical traditions - jazz, funk, blues, Klezmer, indie, rock, Balkan, fiddle, classical, - bring a wealth of experience, creativity and fearless improvisation to each performance. Vitamin Em members love playing together and sharing with audiences a fun-loving spontaneity and exhilaration for the groove.
Vitamin Em has appeared around the Bay Area as featured artists with: Mason Bates and Mercury Soul, Berkeley Symphony & Friends, Piedmont Piano Company, Pt. Richmond Jazz, Epworth Community Concerts. Members can also be found collaborating, recording and/or touring with artists such as Wayne Shorter, Santana, Beyonce, Paquito D'Rivera, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Hot Club of San Francisco, Brothers Comatose, Klezmatics and performing at SF Jazz, in the pit of Hamilton and in the San Francisco Ballet and Opera orchestras.
Performers:
Matthew Szemela - violin
Evan Price - violin
Emily Onderdonk - viola
Michael Graham - cello
Paul Hanson - bassoon
Dan Cantrell - accordion
$30, free to students through high school, and $15 for Higher Ed students.
Presented by Berkeley Chamber Performances.
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