NOTE: “Today” and “tonight” refer to Friday, March 18.
PORT LUDLOW — Latin Grammy-nominated band Quattrosound will offer its special blend of music tonight at The Bay Club.
The band will perform live beginning at 7:30 p.m. at the club at 120 Spinnaker Place in Port Ludlow.
Tickets to the performance, presented by Port Ludlow Performing Arts, are $25. They are available online at www.PortLudlowPerformingArts.com or at the Bay Club, 120 Spinnaker Place in Port Ludlow.
Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. for general admission seat selection while subscribers, benefactors and the evening’s volunteers may preselect at 6:15 p.m.
An open wine bar will be available until shortly before the start of the show.
Quattrosound incorporates “four accomplished musicians who are equally astute at playing a classical piece by Bach as they are at rocking out to Led Zeppelin or picking up ‘Spain’ by Chick Corea,” said Barbara Wagner-Jauregg, a Port Ludlow Performing Arts board member.
“This innovative acoustic-based ensemble skillfully blurs the lines of music genre boundaries, blending Latin, pop, jazz and classical crossover,” she said.
Hailing from Japan, Mexico, Guatemala and Texas, Quattrosound’s four professionally trained musicians are each a master of his or her trade, Wagner-Jauregg said.
The ensemble combines violin, cello, guitars and percussion with “sparkling” lead vocals and four-part harmonies, she said.
“Together, they create a unique musical experience with impressive technicality that brings audiences to their feet at every performance,” she said.
Quattrosound raises the bar of originality as they “pay homage to the classics” and “forge a new contemporary sound with music selections that are as broad as the group’s ethnicities,” Wagner-Jauregg said.
Quattrosound members include Giovanna Moraga Clayton on cello and vocals, Leah Zeger on violin and vocals, Kay-Ta Matsuno on guitar and vocals and Jorge Villanueva on percussion.
The daughter of professional musicians, Clayton was influenced by a wide variety of music spanning from Celia Cruz to Carole King to Tchaikovsky, she said.
Clayton holds positions with several orchestras as well as being an in-demand cellist in the Los Angeles recording scene, said organizers of the concert.
Zeger has played the violin since age 6.
She made her symphony solo debut at 15, began studying voice, won a college scholarship and became a tenured first symphony violinist at age 19.
Career highlights include dueling on the violin with Charlie Daniels, appearing on television with both Pearl Jam and Willie Nelson, performing with Barrage, and appearing as a soloist at an Eric Clapton Blues Festival.
Matsuno was born in Osaka, Japan, and moved to Boston to study at Berklee College of Music when he was 20.
The broad capacity of his playing style — from gospel, R&B, country, jazz and rock — helped him to start his career as a session guitarist in Los Angeles, he said.
Villanueva — born in Tijuana, Mexico — has performed as a drummer in several Latino television shows.
His current engagements include touring with various artists, working on a movie soundtrack and also a dance film.
During the performance, Port Ludlow Artists’ League members Judy Thomas and Jim Watson-Gove will exhibit fused glass and abstract paintings in conjunction with the concert.
Thomas began taking ceramic classes when her children were small, returning to the art in the early 1990s.
She has worked in fused glass for about 15 years.
Visits to art museums and galleries in the U.S. and Europe have fueled her interests in modern art and abstraction.
Watson-Gove is a painter, poet and small press publisher.
He discovered the Expressionists in the ’50s, Abstract Expressionism shortly after and has never looked back, he said.
His major influences are Judy Chicago, Hans Hofmann, Richard Allen Morris and Jackson Pollock.
This exhibit will be on display at the Bay Club throughout much of March.
For more information, call 360-437-1262 or send an email to gpurdy@cablespeed.com.
