Live Music
The Mars Express
The Mars Express delivers musical gifts for all earthlings to enjoy! Vocalist Sara Smile and Berklee alumni, Marcelino “Mars” Quiroz, join together to bring you their flavor of jazz, neo-soul and funk. You can catch The Mars Express as a duo or decked out with all the frills blasting out cosmic frequencies into an atmosphere near you. A few of their favorites are: Hiatus Kaiyote, BadBadNotGood, Butcher Brown, Erykah Badu, JDilla, and Herbie Hancock. You can find Mars and Sara orbiting around the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond sounding like a good time, jamming originals and handpicked favorite tunes. So, dust the cobwebs off your space suit, grab your moon goggles and jump on The Mars Express!
John Welton & The Awakening
John Welton & The Awakening is a band that is dedicated to bringing their message to the world in the form of musical medicine. With so many different influences, it is tricky to pigeon hole them into a genre, but the overall feeling is that the music that comes from JWATA is meant to heal and speak directly to YOU, while getting your body moving and dancing through your emotions. JWATA is very aware of the mycelial nature of the crowd and the band, and there is always a very powerful connection with them and any crowd that tends to make each show its very own magical, one-off.
High energy, big sing alongs, funky grooves and thoughtful lyrics are a guarantee at any John Welton & The Awakening show.
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Metaterrestrial
Metaterrestrial | mĕt′ə-tə-rĕs′trē-əl | noun - a portmanteau of "metaphysical" & "extraterrestrial" meaning something which originates outside the ordinary three-dimensional space-time framework in which we normally function. Much like the name, Metaterrestrial uses live performance to take the listener on a sonic journey that defies geological borders & defined genres. Using spoken word, visual & auditory stimuli, MT seeks to drive forward a much larger concept—That there exists much more than we can perceive with our two eyes.
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Christopher Mrofchak
Christopher Mrofchak began playing guitar at an early age taking lessons from his father. He continued his studies formally at the Dana School of Music of Youngstown State University under the direction of Dr. François Fowler. While at YSU, Christopher worked with various chamber groups, including the Early Music Ensemble, Dana Guitar Quartet, and the Dana Gypsy Jazz Ensemble. Mrofchak also received numerous awards at YSU, including 2nd prize at the James Stroud All-Ohio guitar competition. In 2014, he went on to study with world-renowned pedagogue Bruce Holzman at Florida State University. While working as a teaching assistant to Professor Holzman, Mrofchak placed in several competitions, including the Troy University Guitar Competition, the University of Louisville Guitar Festival and Competition, and the Indiana International Guitar Festival and Competition. In 2019, Christopher was selected as one of fifteen guitarists worldwide to compete in the prestigious Parkening International Guitar Competition. He has performed in many cities in the United States, including Akron, Beverly Hills, Bloomington, Chattanooga, Cleveland, Columbia, Columbus, Gainesville, Louisville, Malibu, Pittsburgh, Tallahassee, Tifton, Warren, and Youngstown. In addition to his work as a soloist, Mrofchak concertizes as part of the Fowler Mrofchak Guitar Duo, having completed two tours of the eastern U.S. in 2022. Mrofchak is active as an educator, having taught at several schools throughout North Florida, including Chipola College and, most recently, Wakulla High School. His students have performed at the North Florida String Festival, Florida Guitar Festival, and Classical Guitar Society at FSU events. Mrofchak earned his Doctorate of Music at Florida State University in 2021 with the completion of a treatise discussing the music of Brazilian virtuoso Sérgio Assad. Christopher performs on instruments luthiers Rafael Granados, Timothy Steis, and Glenn Ca
Christopher Mrofchak will be performing , guitar Un Sueño en la Floresta Capriccio Diabolico, Op. 85 Andante and Rondo, Op. 2, No. 2 Prelude from Lute Suite No. 4 Arabesque en forme de Caprice, Op. 99 Sandy’s Portrait Prelude Passacaglia Toccata Program Agustín Barrios Mangoré (1885-1944) Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968) Dionisio Aguado (1784-1849) Intermission Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Francis Kleynjans (b. 1951) Sérgio Assad (b. 1952)
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