Hani Naser Band with special guests Toulouse Engelhardt and Agent 22

Friday September 24, 2010
San Juan Capistrano, CA
Discounted tickets available now at www.thossounds.com/store.html
(save $13.50 each vs. Ticketmaster prices!)

On September 24, Agent 22 will be opening for both the Hani Naser Band and Tolouse Engelhardt in what promises to be a night of amazing musical versatility. As a special offer, we have a limited number of discounted tickets to this show available now through September 24. These are the same tickets you'd get through Ticketmaster, but you'll save $13.50 each in box office and Ticketmaster fees. The show is open to all ages. To take advantage of this offer, just visit our store page. If you need to, you can also sign up on our mailing list to stay up to date on future offers. Hope you can join us!

Multi-talented Hani Naser is a virtuoso percussionist and Oud player. Considered a master in his field, Naser inspired Randy Lewis of the Los Angeles Times to call him a "Veritable Hand Drum Wizard". The breadth of Naser's talent has earned him the opportunity to perform and record with many of the most influential artists of this era including Nickey Hopkins (Rolling Stones), Jackson Brown, Bonnie Raitt, Ry Cooder, Jim Keltner (John Lennon's drummer) Steve Miller, Los Lobos, The Violent Femmes, Don Henley, Hamza El Din, Kazu Matsui, Jennifer Warnes, David Broza, Paco De Lucia, Santana, Brian Ritchie,Tony Trischka, Leftover Salmon, Quick Silver Messenger Service, John Hyatt, Warren Zevon, Ruben Blades, Lou Reed, Blind Boys of Alabama, David Lindley, and many other great musicians. Naser is at home in a multitude of musical styles and has a well deserved reputation as an expert improviser and prolific songwriter.

Toulouse Engelhardt has earned accolades from serious critics of the guitar and the public alike for his lightning fast guitar stylings and colorful, cinematic melodies. He has reached a level of cult status reserved for only a handful of the finest guitarists in the world. He was the last original member of the so-called "Takoma Seven," the highly-celebrated innovators of finger-style steel string guitar who recorded for Takoma Records from 1959 to 1976 and included Leo Kottke and the late John Fahey. It was this group of milestone finger-style guitarists that brought about the current renaissance in the acoustic guitar movement and propagated a wave of copycat clones of the so-called "New Age". Today many in the music industry believe that Toulouse Engelhardt deserves to be placed among the elite group of legendary guitar masters!

Agent 22 blends the talents of Tom Griesgraber on Chapman Stick and Ryan Moran on drums, percussion and didjeridoo. Difficult to classify yet easily identified with, the music of Agent 22 is based in rock, but borrows amply from jazz, funk, world and classical. Tom is regarded as one of the top Chapman Stick players in the world (an unusual 12-stringed guitar/bass/synth hybrid played with a technique more like piano) and has toured and recorded with some of the music world's most respected instrumentalists like Bert Lams of the California Guitar Trio and Peter Gabriel/Paul McCartney alumnus Jerry Marotta. Ryan has spent years touring with groups like Slightly Stoopid and the B-Side Players, often headlining famous venues like Red Rocks, The Gorge and The Fillmore.

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