The Garden Concert Series takes place in a picturesque setting in the hills above Soquel. It features world-acclaimed acoustic acts, coupled with wine tasting and hors devours provided by Seascape Foods — our favorite local gourmet market and deli. Currently in its fifth season, the Garden Concert Series is an outdoor, ticketed concert series that runs April through August — featuring one event per month.
The goal of The Series is to create unique, memorable events where family and friends can come together to a world-class experience in an impeccable outdoor environment, which makes for a refreshing alternative to traditional entertainment options.
The Venue
The Garden Concert Series takes place at the Hilltop Hacienda at Kennolyn, perched above Soquel with panoramic views of Monterey Bay. You can’t help but marvel at the dramatic blue backdrop with Carmel off in the distance and redwood covered hilltops, ornate gardens, and a lush emerald lawn in the foreground. Seating is theater-style with white garden chairs. Low-back lawn chairs are welcome. No bottles; no picnics.
The White Album Ensemble consistently attracts sold out crowds for their live recreations of classic Beatles albums. Not a look alike group, they are a group of seasoned professionals who share a deep love and respect for the music of the most popular group in history. Instead of featuring any one album, they select the most appropriate acoustic-based songs from the time period of 1966–1970, the period when the Beatles had stopped touring, saying the music they were making “couldn't be performed live.” Replicating the Fab Four's many overdubbed parts on the records requires eight top Santa Cruz and Monterey, California-based musicians and vocalists. The compositions are challenging and intricate, but the Ensemble effortlessly blends familiar melodies with well-crafted instrumentation.
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"A seasoned player, Fox has performed with fellow guitarists Charlie Byrd, Charlie Hunter, Stanley Jordan and Kenny Burrell, as well as with Grammy award winners saxophonist David Sanchez and Manhattan Transfer's Janis Siegel, saxophonist Don Lanphere, Hammond B3 organ virtuosos Barbara Dennerlien and Dr. Lonnie Smith, and drummer Terri Lyne Carrington. Fox has shared the bill with a wide array of artists including Diana Krall, Stevie Wonder and John Sebastian. She has composed music for theater, film and dance, and has appeared on numerous television shows such as BET on Jazz.
The most recent recording from jazz guitarist Mimi Fox is a double CD titled Perpetually Hip. The first disc features Fox with a stellar group consisting of pianist Xavier Davis, bassist Harvie S and drummer Billy Hart. The second disc is solo guitar from Mimi Fox putting her unique stomp on some great standards.
David Lindley has been smashing musical barriers and fusing idioms from his earliest days. There's a wonderful tale about the tie-breaking round in a mid-'60s Topanga Banjo Contest, with Taj Mahal and Lindley as the finalists. To determine the winner, the judges required them each to play a version of "John Henry." Taj Mahal threw down the gauntlet with a calypso-tinged rendition of the old banjo favorite. Lindley met the challenge head-on with an impassioned flamenco-on-the-five-string rave-up, replete with clawhammer rasgueados and old-timey falsetas.
That kind of playful, pan-cultural approach has informed Lindley's music in all its incarnations, from his early bluegrass-meets-Paganini endeavors with the Dry City Scat Band through the psychedelic Middle Eastern experiments of Kaleidoscope, the incendiary reggae grooves of El Rayo-X, and his acoustic duets with Jordanian dumbek wizard Hani Naser and percussionist Wally Ingram. Along the way, Lindley has collaborated on albums and film scores with Ry Cooder, provided stratospheric slide solos on Jackson Browne hits, and laid down hundreds of tracks as hired axman on records by everyone from Rod Stewart to Dolly Parton to contemplative new age shakuhachi master Kazu Matsui. Lindley also made musical pilgrimages to Madagascar and Norway with guitarist Henry Kaiser, trips that resulted in the wildly popular World Out of Time and Sweet Sunny North recordings.
Lindley's encyclopedic knowledge of music, his indomitable arsenal of stringed instruments, and his deft touch in every style put him on the top of everyone's list of most able sidemen. When Jackson Browne, Shawn Colvin, Bruce Hornsby, and Bonnie Raitt teamed up for a concert tour last fall, they chose Lindley to lead the band.
For more information, visit www.davidlindley.com.
Nina's voice has recently been described as "...half Janis and half Alanis, and whose arresting delivery is three parts Virgin Mary and one part Dirty Harry"... and "With a voice of fire and quicksilver, Nina Storey is preparing to announce her arrival."
Nina's new Album, "So Many Ways from:me to: you" is as she describes it, "21st Century Soul" - mashing old-school soul with an indie singer/songwriter edge. She has been featured in both film and television including Sony Pictures, "Broken Hearts Club" two Fox Hit Series, "So You Think You Can Dance, and "Standoff", ABC's "Alias", WB's "Girlfriends", and The Travel Channel, as well as composing the theme song for the independent film, "Foreign Soil."
Nina has worked with and opened for acclaimed artists such as Etta James, Keb' Mo, Ani DiFranco, Sarah Bareillis, Devotchka, Johnny Lang, Sarah McLachlan, Patty Griffin, Joan Osborne, Little Feat, The Allman Brothers, INXS, Linda Rondstadt,Susan Tedeschi, Les Nubians, Jackie Greene, Rocco Deluca and The Subdudes
She has been featured on CNN Showbiz Today, MTV Online, Rolling Stone Online and People Magazine. Nina has also toured internationally in Europe, Iceland, and Canada as well as performed in domestic festivals such as The Montreal International Jazz Festival, The Monterey Blues Festival, The New Orleans Jazz Festival, and Red Rocks Ampitheatre.
Nina has also been selected to endorse Sennheiser Microphones, Westone Audio as well as Klipsch Audio as they have said, "the passion this emerging singer songwriter displaysŠproves she's a true original." Nina will be touring this summer in support of her new album.
The White Album Ensemble consistently attracts sold out crowds for their live recreations of classic Beatles albums. Not a look alike group, they are a group of seasoned professionals who share a deep love and respect for the music of the most popular group in history. Instead of featuring any one album, they select the most appropriate acoustic-based songs from the time period of 1966–1970, the period when the Beatles had stopped touring, saying the music they were making “couldn't be performed live.” Replicating the Fab Four's many overdubbed parts on the records requires eight top Santa Cruz and Monterey, California-based musicians and vocalists. The compositions are challenging and intricate, but the Ensemble effortlessly blends familiar melodies with well-crafted instrumentation.
The White Album Ensemble consistently attracts sold out crowds for their live recreations of classic Beatles albums. Not a look alike group, they are a group of seasoned professionals who share a deep love and respect for the music of the most popular group in history. Instead of featuring any one album, they select the most appropriate acoustic-based songs from the time period of 1966–1970, the period when the Beatles had stopped touring, saying the music they were making “couldn't be performed live.” Replicating the Fab Four's many overdubbed parts on the records requires eight top Santa Cruz and Monterey, California-based musicians and vocalists. The compositions are challenging and intricate, but the Ensemble effortlessly blends familiar melodies with well-crafted instrumentation.
"A seasoned player, Fox has performed with fellow guitarists Charlie Byrd, Charlie Hunter, Stanley Jordan and Kenny Burrell, as well as with Grammy award winners saxophonist David Sanchez and Manhattan Transfer's Janis Siegel, saxophonist Don Lanphere, Hammond B3 organ virtuosos Barbara Dennerlien and Dr. Lonnie Smith, and drummer Terri Lyne Carrington. Fox has shared the bill with a wide array of artists including Diana Krall, Stevie Wonder and John Sebastian. She has composed music for theater, film and dance, and has appeared on numerous television shows such as BET on Jazz.
David Lindley has been smashing musical barriers and fusing idioms from his earliest days. There's a wonderful tale about the tie-breaking round in a mid-'60s Topanga Banjo Contest, with Taj Mahal and Lindley as the finalists. To determine the winner, the judges required them each to play a version of "John Henry." Taj Mahal threw down the gauntlet with a calypso-tinged rendition of the old banjo favorite. Lindley met the challenge head-on with an impassioned flamenco-on-the-five-string rave-up, replete with clawhammer rasgueados and old-timey falsetas.
Nina's voice has recently been described as "...half Janis and half Alanis, and whose arresting delivery is three parts Virgin Mary and one part Dirty Harry"... and "With a voice of fire and quicksilver, Nina Storey is preparing to announce her arrival."