June Village Walk

If you could soundtrack the brooding ocean and the jazz of the surf, the Mattson 2 would most certainly be the composers. The foot stomps of a shoe-gazed salty air meets the tight groove and polished shake of the night with each of the duo’s multi-layered tracks. And with the recent release of their third album on Galaxia, Feeling Hands, audiences around the globe are witnessing the growth of two musicians hitting full stride with deft layering, detailed composition and an altogether unmistakable sound.

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Ben Power is a flute and bodhrán player, singer, piper and sean-nós dancer from Liverpool, England.  After living in Vermont and attending college at St. John's in Maryland, playing with the great Irish musicians in Baltimore, he moved to Dublin in the mid-nineties for the tunes.

He currently lives in La Jolla, California, while pursuing a Ph.D. in  Integrative Studies in Music (ethnomusicology) at the University of California, San Diego, from where he researches the bellows pipes revival in Scotland. He currently plays with the Swedenborg Trio.

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Icelandic performer Berglind Tómasdóttir frequently explores identity and archetypes in her work. She holds degrees in flute playing from Reykjavík College of Music and The Royal Danish Academy of Music. Tómasdóttir lives in San Diego where she is currently pursuing her doctorate in music at UCSD. 

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Ensemble et cetera is a trio based in Southern California. Formed by three friends in 2010, et cetera seeks to create a repertoire for their unusual instrumentation through new commissions, electro-acoustic works and realizations of unconventional scores reflecting their myriad interests in the American and European avant-garde.

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Giri Nata, San Diego’s only Balinese gamelan ensemble, was founded in 2002, having developed from gamelan music classes held at the Museum School, a local charter school. The ensemble, made up of both former and current Museum School students, as well as other local musicians, has performed Balinese gamelan music and dance throughout southern California. The ensemble was given the name Giri Nata, which means “mountain sage,” by Dr. Nyoman Wenten in honor of the late Robert E. Brown, former president of the Center for World Music, whose efforts were instrumental in its founding.

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Jennifer Bewerse, cellist, is a devoted performer of contemporary classical music and regularly works with composers. As a result of her collaborations, she has premiered many works including most recently Jay Mikelman's It rains for solo cello. Other composers she has had the privilege to work with include Augusta Read Thomas, Gunther Schuller, Jonathan Harvey, Christian Wolff, and David Del Tredici. 

She has participated in SICPP, as a guest soloist for the Robert Helps Festival, and was the 2010 Performance Prizewinner at the soundSCAPE festival in Italy. Currently, she is pursuing her Doctorate in Contemporary Performance at UC San Diego.

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Dr. Justin DeHart is an avid performer and dedicated teacher of a wide variety of musical styles - from classical to pop, and from world to electronic. DeHart’s musical resume includes performances with the San Diego symphony, pipa master Wu Man, and various pop legends, including Cheap Trick. As a California native, he holds a B.M. from CSU Sacramento, a M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts, and a D.M.A. from UC San Diego. DeHart is a member of the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet (LAPQ) who was nominated for a 2012 GRAMMY in three categories for their Surround Sound debut album, Rūpa-Khandha, with the classical recording label Sono Luminous. He recently released his debut solo CD entitled Strange Paths on Innova Recordings featuring works by Brian Ferneyhough, Iannis Xenakis, Michael Gordon and Stuart Saunders Smith. DeHart was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship for percussion studies in India (2001) and his talents have been featured at concerts and festivals throughout the United States, Canada and Asia. Dr. DeHart currently teaches percussion and improvisation classes at Chapman University Conservatory of Music and is in demand as a freelancer in Southern CA.

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MandoBasso is a duo featuring Gunnar Biggs on bass and Bill Bradbury on mandolin. Biggs comes from a strong background in jazz and classical performance, Bradbury from a composition and computer music background. Their mutual love of Irish and traditional American music brought them together in this unusual pairing of mandolin and bass. Mandobasso performances include arrangements of traditional music, new compositions, classical music, jazz and ragtime. Biggs is an accomplished jazz musician who has played with many of the greats, he is one of the "go-to" bassists in southern California. Bradbury is an Emmy Award-winning composer who is a music professor at California State University, San Marcos.

Nathan Hubbards solo music is an amalgam of his work as an improviser, composer and instrument builder. Using acoustic and amplified instruments and a wide range of electronics, Hubbard creates a soundworld of multiple layers, where the music changes definitions of form, shape and outcome. This music has been presented in a wide variety of contexts, from concert halls and festivals to freeway underpasses and desolate mountain roads, and is documented on the recordings Born On Tuesday (2004, Circumvention Music) and Blind Orchid (2007, Accretions Records). In addition, Hubbard has released several EPs focusing on homemade instruments and electronic processors - Aegis I (2005), Aegis II (2010) and Drive (for JS) (2010).

Beyond his solo work, Hubbard collaborates with percussionist Curtis Glatter (Glatter/Hubbard) and the trio ARC Trio, as well as leading his own quintet (Nathan Hubbard/Passengers) and the large ensemble Nathan Hubbard Skeleton Key Orchestra.

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Peter Wanjira is an expert musician and dancer from Kenya and performs the traditional music and dance of many tribes in Kenya. He is currently an instructor at San Diego's Center for World Music.

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San Diego New Music is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to the public performance of notated music of the highest integrity and artistic caliber from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.  We seek to advance the art form by promoting music composed with conceptual rigor, passionate energy, and singular artistic vision. SDNM enriches the artistic culture of San Diego through the presentation of an annual concert series and the soundON Festival of Modern Music, and through fostering its resident performing ensemble, NOISE. WEBSITE

Formed in San Diego in 2012, Second Cousins started as an acoustic trio of guitar, banjo, and mandolin and quickly expanded into a full band, exploring various sonic textures that reinforce the songwriting aesthetic that the band was born from.

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Son de San Diego plays music from the southern region of Veracruz state in Mexico known as Son Jarocho. They use traditional string instruments (jarana, guitarra de son and tarima). The best-known song from this tradition is "La Bamba." Garcia teaches in the Visual and Performing Arts Department at California State University San Marcos.

Critically acclaimed percussionist, STEPHEN SOLOOK is an active classical, world, and solo musician in New York City. As a driving force in new music he has been responsible for over 30 premieres, working with such composers as Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Moravec, Bruce Adolphe, David Loeb, and David Tcimpidis.

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DJ Lexicon Devil spins rare vinyl grooves to bring you an eclectic mix highlighting Rockn'roll, Funk, Soul, Garage, Psych and International music ranging mostly from the early '60s to late '70s.

Scott Paulson & Ellen Lawson present an eclectic mix of hand-held electronica, classical & toy instruments--and yes, the audience is part of the band!

Jesse met Mike thru Abel in 2008. Abel forced Mike to play drums with Jesse- the duo dubbing themselves the Paragraphs in January 2009. After 2 EP's (2009's Gallows EP and 2010 Hey! EP) and a couple tours, Abel decided the duo was having way too much fun without him and jumped in on bass guitar. Adam followed suit in 2012, adding a second guitar to the mix.

After releasing a split 7" in 2011, the band took a break from shows to write/record their first full length record at White Horse Recorders. The album is due for release in the summer of 2012.

Soprano, Tiffany Du Mouchelle is a passionate performer who holds nothing back. Well known for her musical versatility, an electric stage presence and exceptional dramatic sensibilities, gifted with an instrument that spans close to four octaves in range, she is most recognized for her fearlessness in exploring new and challenging repertoire that encourages the voice into new realms of expressivity. Ms. Du Mouchelle is praised for her eclectic repertoire encompassing a vast array of musical styles and languages featuring over 20 different languages (including: Arabic, Japanese, Miani, Russian, and Swedish), and exploring the genres of classical, world, contemporary, cabaret, and theatrical works.

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Villa Musica is San Diego’s community music center, enabling people of all ages and backgrounds to discover, explore and enhance their music skills as part of a network of musicians, educators and lovers of music.

Founded as a non-profit corporation in November 2005, Villa Musica is a vibrant gathering place where people can come together to take music lessons, play in an ensemble, or participate in a workshop.

The Villa Musica Singers and Vila Musica Junior Violinists will be performing at the June Village Walk.

Experience jazz fun with Leigh Sutherlin in soulful vocals, edgy piano solos, and original hard bop “White Caps” from debut CD “Sandbar”.

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A solo singer-songwriter, singing and playing original songs on the guitar

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Dan will play a romantic finger style set of spanish, latin and classic rock instrumentals from Beatles and other traditional classics.

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