Greetings music lovers- Announcing an upcoming “unplugged” performance of Beatles music, this August 10th, the waterbird Garden concert series closing show of the season- at Kennolyn Hilltop Hacienda, in Soquel, ca. There is also  upcoming shows Aug 21st- Miller Music In the Park, Cesar Chavez Plaza, San Jose 5:45- 8:45 PM, free- And Aug 23rd, Sand City’s West End Festival.

Tickets & more info about the shows here.

Spring brings change and rebirth, and the White Album Ensemble has gone thru yet another personnel change— this makes five to date!

The band is now-
Richard Bryant- vocals and keys
Peter Booras- drums
Stephen Krilanovich- guitars, vocals, keyboards
Ken Kraft- guitars and vocals
Dale Ockerman- keyboards, guitars, multi-instrumentalist
Tiran Porter- bass and vocals
With special guest Richi Ray Harris- vocals, guitars and keyboards

Richi Ray has performed on Broadway (with Beatlemania) as John Lennon, and George Harrison, and is truly one of the deepest students of all things Beatle.

With very careful thought, and apologies to the fans who’d like nothing to change: we felt a need to downsize and reinvent ourselves a bit. Our thanks go out to great players and singers Alan Heit, and Bob Bliss, as well as former members Jason Schimmel, and Mike Daugherty.

2008 finds us at the 40th anniversary of the “White Album”’s release, and as we go into our 5th year, our goal is to expand our “play zones” both north and south. Then there’s Tokyo and Paris…

Of course, when we do our performances with symphonies, or do big shows like Sgt Pepper’s Mystery Tour, we will still bring in the strings, harps, tablas, dilrhubas, trumpets, swardmandels, tambouras, or whatever it takes to recreate Beatles recordings in a live setting as accurately and as true-to-spirit as is humanly possible.

Thank you for your interest; without our fans, we wouldn’t exist!

 + + + + + And as always, thank you John, Paul, Ringo and George + + + + + +