CelloJoe Presents The Cello MADNESS Congress: Harvest the Groove

Each artist will have a feature set in addition to improvised songs amongst the cellists.Featured artists for the Harvest the Groove edition of the Cello Madness Congress:Lewis PatznerSusanna PorteJoseph HébertCharles MoseeleCello JoeDoors open at 6:30 pm, show runs 7-10 pm. Arrive early for best seating as it's first come, first serve.Address: 801 Magnolia Avenue, Piedmont, CA 94611All AgesBiographies: Cousin Id featuring Joseph Hérbert and Charles Moseelehttp://www.josephhebert.com/Joseph Hérbert - cellist, choral director, educator and pastoral music minister performs in the San Francisco area and has toured in Japan, Africa, and Europe as well as throughout the United states. He has shared the concert stage and recording studio with hundreds of artists from the classical and popular music worlds including: Carlos Santana, Stevie Wonder, Placido Domingo, Ray Charles, Jesse Norman, and Marilyn Horne among many others. Joseph us also a voting member of the Grammy Recording Academy.Mr Hebert is the Assistant Principal cello of the Oakland East Bay Symphony un calutornua He also performed with the Skywalker Symphony on numerous film and video recording sessions. He has been described by the Oakland Tribune as “one or the most eloquently expressive cellists in the (San Francisco) Bay Area."Lewis Patznerhttps://lewispatzner.com/about/Lewis Patzner is a cellist in Oakland and has been involved in many diverse projects including Judgment Day and The Musical Art Quintet.Susanna Portehttps://www.susannaporte.com/Susanna Porte has a B.Mus. in Cello Performance from Oberlin Conservatory, a B.A. with Honors in Russian from Oberlin College, an M.A. in Russian Literature from the University of Pittsburgh, and a Teaching Certificate in Music from Carnegie Mellon University. She has performed extensively in orchestras and chamber groups throughout Massachusetts and the San Francisco Bay Area. Susanna was a co-founder (with fellow Obie Rebecca Thornblade) of the Cambridge-based Cello Chix, an electric cello and drums band that featured her arrangements of rock and pop tunes. She now free-lances as a classical, rock and jazz cellist, music arranger, Russian translator, and proofreader. Susanna has recently toured with the band The Magnetic Fields, and is currently playing jazz in several local combos and taking classes at the California Jazz Conservatory. She has studied with David Finch, Andor Toth, Jr., Mark Summer, Mads Tolling, and Eugene Friesen.CelloJoe http://CelloJoe.com Cello + beatboxing + vocals + live looping = Cello JoeCello Joe plays the cello while beatboxing, looping, and singing. It's Classical Hip Hop. He creates fat beats with a cello and his mouth and he does it live!His lyrics weave together sustainability, environmental justice, and social awareness. They entertain, inspire, and make you wonder. Expect mystical moments of musical mayhem. Cellists will be improvising in ways you've never heard cello before. A bit of background:The Cello Madness Congress is a loose knit group of cellists from around the bay area (90 members strong and growing!) who get together to write a new constitution of what is possible with the violincello or 'cello for short. We play the instrument said to be most like the human voice and we create spontaneous, improvised, magical musical moments of pure ecstasy (the aural/auditory kind) that astound and amaze the listener's ear. We can go from a stately, majestic promenade of elf gods to a wild, erratic, frantic frenzy of whirling space gnomes dancing in eternity whilst seducing seahorses and sea cucumbers. Our jams can depict the ephemeral wisps of smoke rising from a funeral pyre to the prismatic rainbow colored fanfare of a three ring circus complete with elephants and clowns. We also read music arranged for cello. We invite all cellists to come and explore with us.