Past Performances

May 1st: Earthshaking Music

Founded and directed by Dave Strohauer, Earthshaking Samba is a semi-professional samba bateria (percussion group) sponsored by Earthshaking Music Inc. We are based in the East Atlanta Village in Atlanta Ga. We play high energy Brazilian drum grooves such as batucada, samba de roda, baião, and samba-reggae. Videos

Earthshaking Sound System features DJ Gordon Deland mixing the tunes and making beats, and Dave Strohauer on congas and djembe. ESS plays a wide range of groove-oriented music with LIVE drumming.

May 22nd: Abuwan

Born with musical ears and tapping fingers in the heart of New Jersey, Glenn Abuwan (atl) has been playing, performing and amazing audiences of all ages with his own style of other-worldly music for over 15 years. He plays too many instruments to count, and his unique composing, recording, arranging, and producing skills are undeniable. Abuwan puts on an amazing show, solo or as part of his ensemble.

May 29th: TruthSpeaks

Recently moved to Atlanta from Cincinnati where he worked with team DMC champions “The Animal Crackers” and Bootsy Collins’ engineer, Dj Truthspeaks is currently trying to break through as a Dj, Producer, and Recording Engineer and is currently working at Tree Sound Studios, Atlanta’s largest recording facility. Check him out at www.myspace.com/truthspeaks7

June 5th: Roxie Watson

June 12th: Alan Dynin

Pianist and composer Alan Dynin has been doing jazz gigs since he was 17 and got a lot of his chops studying with jazz greats Joe Jones and Kenny Palmer, formerly of the Dizzy Gillespie and Glen Miller Orchestra's, respectively. He has played for such groups as The North Carolina World and Jazz Music Society and the Atlanta Symphony Associates. alandynin2@yahoo.com

June 19th: Radio Rambler

Radio Rambler is a delightful mix of Delta, Piedmont and Chicago Blues with a roux of Shenandoah Mountain Folk music. Joe (Pigiron) Shifalo, born in Mississippi, raised in Florida, was a student of the New York City Coffee House scene in the early 1960's. He has been an Atlanta resident for the past 30 with his guitar, banjo, harmonica, kazoo and washboard. Michael Ellis was born and raised in the inner city of Chicago, where he became immersed in the Blues scene. Alton Leonard hails from Virginia and is considered the musical professor of the Radio Ramblers. Alton plays guitar, mandolin, accordian, harmonica, keyboards, and produces many of the complex Radio Rambler arrangments.

June 26th: Uncle Daddy and the Kissin' Cousins

It was a warm August night in Georgia. The Hickey family was wrapping up their daily chores as the sun was making its final dip into the horizon. They laid down their yard tools and dustpans so they could pass around the jug as night fell. Uncle Daddy was humming to himself while whittling on a piece of wood. "Mountain" Dewey Hickey started blowing on the jug after every time it passed around the group. Being the most hard working of the bunch, Lil' Red was still scrubbing trousers on her washboard. Ichabod Hickey started noticing the rhythm that Lil' Red, Uncle Daddy, and Dew were unintentionally creating. He started tapping his foot and plucking at the teeth of his rake to the rough tune. Brother Dickie joined in by clacking some spoons together and cousin Malachai started bending his saw till it howled. At that moment, the Hickey family band, Uncle Daddy and the Kissin Cousins, was born. The Hickeys were not dissuaded into thinking that their melodious beginning was a delusion brought on by consuming home-distilled spirits. They sold their best heifer and bought a mess of instruments to accompany their homemade sound. Uncle Daddy and the Kissin' Cousins Myspace Page