Concert
December 12, 2009
Saturday 7:30 pm
Bellingham High Auditorium
see photos [here]

The Times
They Are A Changin'

Clipper Anderson - bass
Steve Rice - keyboards
Ricardo Guity - percussion

On December 12 the 85+ voice Kulshan Chorus brings you to a concert of World Music – a collection of musical jewels designed to add sparkle and zest to your life by making this celebration a part of the mid-winter holiday.

This season begins our 21st year producing colorful and powerful concerts for audiences in Bellingham and Whatcom County. We will be joined by Steve Rice, keys, and Clipper Anderson, bass, both from Seattle, and, new to us tonight, Ricardo Guity, percussionist from Honduras now living in Seattle. See below for more data on these wonderful musicans.[musicians]

Our concert, “The Times They Are A-Changin’,” features songs by Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Argentine chanteuse Mercedes Sosa, Aretha Franklin, Elton John, Keb Mo and many others including local songwriter Linda Allen.

Issues of diversity, community, and peace are certainly on everyone’s mind these days, not only in our neighborhood, our city, and our country, but globally as well. This season we direct our attention to these concerns.

There are many works of art that address the need for social change. We realize, however, that song, poetry or art in any form are rarely an end in itself when it comes to producing shift in societal thinking, rather, the ideas generated by such works may alter our thoughts and perhaps lead to social change. So, “Si, Se Puede” (Yes, we can), redirect our action should we have lost our “Spirit In the Dark,” and “Come Together” to “make this land a better land, than the world in which we live” as addressed in “Yes, We Can Can”. As well, we can “help each man be a better man, with the kindness that we give,” not only for ourselves, but for our children and our children’s children in all generations to come, for, to quote Bob Dylan, “The Times They Are A-Changin’”.

During this holiday season when the focus is on love, peace and compassion, join us for an uplifting and empowering Midwinter concert.

Bring your family and friends to a celebration of fun and mid-winter warmth. You won’t be disappointed.
– 7:30 PM at Bellingham High School auditorium. Hope to see you there.

Roger and Anne Griffith

ABOUT THE MUSICIANS

Steve Rice
Pianist, Accordianist

Steve Rice grew up in upstate New York. He is a graduate of Berklee College of Music, Boston where he was winner of the "Oscar Peterson Award".

Steve moved to Seattle in 1986 and, as a highly regarded jazz pianist, has performed extensively throughout the Northwest. Steve is featured on several outstanding 2006 CD releases including Rouge "Festival Rouge" (French cabaret / accordion), Steel Drummer Gary Gibson "Yahboy" (calypso/jazz fusion) and the Jim Cutler Jazz Orchestra. A personal highlight is his guest slot on the new mega-cheerful Jean Jacques Perrey / Dana Countryman "Happy Electropop Music Machine".

Steve Rice teaches Jazz Piano and Theory at North Seattle Community College. He lives in Ballard with his teenage son, and recently delivered his daughter for her freshman year at WWU!

Ricardo Guity
Percussionist/Traps

	In recent decades Ricardo has performed with and along side major names and groups in the music industry across genres, including Babatunde Olatunji, Youssou N’Dour Ibrahima Camara (African and world music), The late great Celia Cruz, Johnny Pacheco, Tipica 73, Cuco Valoy(Latino) and others. Ricardo continues to work with several artists and bands including Wesley Deerying and other members of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Michael Clune Tumbao, MangoSon, Super Mukako, Layla Angulo, Global Heat and others groups which are based in the Northwest where he currently resides.
Ricardo specializes in the Garifuna percussion style but is equally at home performing latin rhythms from many cultures.
You can hear Ricardo on "myspace" [here]. Ricardo is Director of ChangoDina - visit [ here]

Clipper Anderson
Bassist

Clipper Anderson is one of the most popular bassists in the Northwest. He was described by Seattle's "Earshot" jazz magazine as "a layer for the connoisseur to savor." A native of Polson, Montana, Clipper played both french horn and bass in high school. He graduated from the University of Montana, having studied bass with Frank Diliberto.

After a professional stint in the Spokane area, he moved to Seattle. Clipper Anderson has toured and played with a number of internationally-known jazz artists, including Randy and Michael Brecker, Toots hielmanns, Herb Ellis, Bob Mintzer, Diane Schurr, Freddie Hubbard, James Williams, and many others.

As a seasoned educator, Clipper has taught privately at Spokane Falls Community College, Eastern Washington University in Cheney, and numerous clinics and festivals at schools and colleges. For the past nine years, Anderson has been involved in various groups participating in a program called "Music For Youth."

Don't forget - we have a Spring concert in 2010!
Check back in January for details.....

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