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I am honored to participate in another amazing Cullinary Classique d’Elegance at Spanish Bay to benefit Meals on Wheels.

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📹 thisisforjamiebower88 & smc_social_work 📷 lovelyavalynn

JBC was the keynote speaker yesterday at Dismas House's 38th Annual Benefit Dinner & Auction in South Bend, Indiana.

EDIT: You can watch Jamiie's full speech here.

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A Valentine celebration of love, food and music at Chef Jessie’s Place

Having said goodbye to the Christmas holidays, many of the metro’s denizens have rolled their sleeves and got back to their daily grind.

However, this recent Valentine’s Day, many braved the traffic jams and packed malls to spend time with their special someones.

As for me, I was doubly lucky: I was able to have a special Valentine’s Day celebration with three of my loves: food, music and friends.

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Outsound Benefit Dinner with the Actual Trio

We are just a few weeks away from the 2018 Outsound New Music Summit!  And as always, we kick off the countdown with the annual benefit dinner featuring live creative music by local artists.  This year we were pleased to have Actual Trio perform.

Actual Trio is led by composer and virtuoso guitarist John Schott and features John Hanes on drums and Dan Seamans on upright bass.  To simply label them as a “contemporary jazz trio” would be a disservice to all three musicians, who bring a wide range of compositional and performance experiences to this group.  Their music ranges from laid-back grooves to fast frenetic runs to sparse percussive punctuated passages.  Overall, they delivered a highly dynamic performance that was well received by all in attendance.  You can hear a bit of it in our recent CatSynth TV video.

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As Schott states in the video, there is something special about the trio format.  Trios are three-legged stools which depend on the contributions of each member and their ability to listen and perform together.  But it is still relatively sparse and spare compared to larger ensembles.  Actual Trio has a very small toolset of drums, bass and guitar (although Schott brought quite a few bits of vintage and modern electronics along as well).  But they get a lot out of what they have.  Schott and Hanes function together as a rhythmic and melodic unit, and they seemed to be able to finish each others lines, whether fast runs or vamps.  Seamans brought a melodic sensibility to his bass performance even while providing a solid foundation for the music.  And they were just fun to watch and listen to.

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The Outsound Benefit Dinner is a “thank you” of sorts to our core supporters in the community – an instance of the time-honored tradition of plying supporters and donors with food, drink and entertainment.   All in attendance enjoyed the performance by Actual Trio and the food provided by Slippery Fish Catering.  But this year, Outsound owes an even greater debt of gratitude to its individual donors and supporters as grants for small arts and music groups becomes even harder to come by than it has in the past.  But we are looking forward to another excellent summit this year.  Please visit the website for tickets and to find out more about the shows, which take place at the Community Music Center in San Francisco from July 22 through July 28, 2018.

Outsound Benefit Dinner with the Actual Trio was originally published on CatSynth

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Medical benefit dinner for Carmela Jones Grace Lutheran Church is hosting a benefit dinner tonight. The benefit takes place from 5 p.m. to 7:30 at 19221 Pineville Road, Long Beach. There will be baked ziti, French bread, and a dessert for $7 a plate. To-go plates are available.

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BlizzCon 2018 Tickets Sell Out

Looks like the second release of #BlizzCon tickets are sold out! @Blizzard_Ent #Gaming #Convention

  This past week saw a lot of gamers battling for tickets to the 12th Annual BlizzCon, which will be in Anaheim, California on November 2nd & 3rd this year.  

The first batch of tickets were released last Wednesday, which sold out in ten minutes.  The second bath were sold out in right under ten minutes on Saturday morning. Even if you were in the queue since tickets became available, like me,…

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Outsound Summit Benefit Drive and Ze Bib!

The annual Outsound New Music Summit is less than a month away. We at CatSynth are looking forward to participating in Touch the Gear and enjoying four nights of concerts, especially after having to sit out last year’s summit entirely. You can see the full lineup and schedule at the website.

We attended the annual benefit dinner for the Summit earlier this month at the Finnish Kaleva Hall in Berkeley, California. In addition to good food and good friends, we were treated to a live performance by Ze Bib, a duo featuring Shanna Sordahl on cello and electronics and Robert Lopez on percussion.

The music featured sparse textures that blended Lopez’s percussion worth Sordahl’s electronics, as well as more rhythmic and forceful sections laying cello, electronics and drums. We are grateful that they shared their music with us for this event.

While the dinner is over, the fund drive for the summit continues. You can find out more information on how to donate here. And if you are the Bay Area, we encourage you to attend one or more of the Summit programs at the Community Music Center in San Francisco, July 23-29.

Outsound Summit Benefit Drive and Ze Bib! was originally published on CatSynth