Quetzal - music as community, cultural vitality, and transformation.
The Southern California band Quetzal recently celebrated its 20th anniversary with a blowout concert that seemed to attract as many musicians as regular people. The band has maintained such a strong presence in the SoCal Chicano music scene that its members could be considered padrinos and padrinas of that free-flowing musical community.
Opium Moon
The four musicians of Opium Moon are a global intersection of powerhouse talent who work together with spontaneity and intuition, forging an exotic, richly articulated sonic journey that conjures ancestral pasts but uplifts and inspires with contemporary rhythms and rhapsodic melodies, masterfully performed.
Carmen Rizzo
Two-time Grammy Nominee, Producer, Artist, Electronic musician, Technologist and Recording Academy member . Carmen runs his own music label Electrofone Music and is the Senior Artist Relations Manager manager for Native Instruments.