Bio: Circus Minor is a Los Angeles based group which plays a darker brand of psychedelic music drawing influences from Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath and the Cure. Each show is different from the next as instrument line-ups change often to include harp, violin, viola, cello, sax, trumpet and Theremins. Bassist and singer Daniel Denton leads the band Circus Minor, a veritable orchestra of musicians in a swelling ocean of dreams that overflows into a profusion of mind expanding sounds.
Bio: Marston performs worldwide on a unique 6 stringed electric cello of his own design mounted on Medieval Battle Armor. His music is the embodiment of epic romanticism. Marston has performed on the Tonight Show, Cirque du Soleil, International Jazz Festivals, Las Vegas Casinos and he has recorded with the Back Street Boys, KISS, Barry Manilow, Rod Stewart and films including Out of Africa and Officer and a Gentlemen and opened for the B-52’s and Michael Bublé.
Instrumentation: Electric Cello, Electric Violin, Harpsichord, Percussion, Vocals
Bio: Massaro is the brainchild of Hollywood-based ambient/psychedelic minimalist sound artist Dominic Massaro. Employing a combination of slow tempos, drones, guitar textures, delays and reverbs, Massaro creates music that is both haunting and soothing. It has been described as celestial landscapes for lucid daydreams.
His latest release Technicolor Static’ has been called twenty five minutes of cosmic bliss and a potentially life-changing aural experience by Losing Today Magazine.
Bio: The Panache Orchestra performs eclectic instrumental music, incorporating styles from Japanese and European folk and classical music to American rock and blues. Their original compositions reinterpret the fundamentals of established musical genres to create new sonic landscapes and musical vernacular.
Instrumentation: Violin, Guitar
Number of Musicians: 2 Additional Equipment Available: P.A. system
Bio: Suzanne Teng & Mystic Journey takes their audience on a journey around the world through the international instrumentation they incorporate into their original compositions.
Instrumentation: Flutes: western flute, alto and bass flutes, dize (China), suling (Indonesia), mijwiz (Egypt), ney (Turkey), bansuri (India), as well as Native American flute, panpipes and ocarina; sitar; flamenco guitar; saz (Turkish lute); oud (middle eastern lute); string bass; and percussion: tabla, Indian khol, Indonesian kundung, Persian Tombak, djembe, drumset, and framedrums.
Number of musicians: 1-6 Additional Equipment Available: P.A. system
