mahaloArts

Alison is the creator and caretaker of mahaloArts. During the past twenty-eight years, Alison has played jazz, R&B, rock and reggae music with all sorts of groups in all sorts of places in and around North Carolina, the Big Island of Hawai'i and South Florida. Musical inspirations are vast, lately focusing on Bill Evans, Maria Schneider, Eliane Elias, Stevie Wonder, John Adams, klezmer and tango. She has been most fortunate to have Mike Garson, Dave Frank, Linda Pristera, Scott Warner, Chip Crawford, Dave Hammer, Tim Walters, Mike Brignola and Stuart Glazer as her teachers. With degrees in architecture, jazz studies and music composition under her belt, Alison is performing, composing, arranging, recording and teaching.

Her resume is available here.

Her listing with NCMusicLessons.com is here.  There are so many wonderful musicians teaching in North Carolina, and she is very honored to be one of them.

Robbie is a multi-faceted gem, a greatly admired musician and human being in the Triangle area and beyond. He is a performer and teacher on the double bass, cello, electric bass, viola da gamba, and violone. Robbie collaborates with many period instrument, chamber, jazz, and folk music ensembles, performing everything from Baroque to Bluegrass. He has performed with The Bach Sinfonia, North Carolina Symphony, Richmond Symphony, Louisville Symphony, Ensemble Vermillian, and Ensemble Courant as well as with many jazz notables including Maxine Sullivan, Tal Farlow, Mose Alison, Mark Murphy, Carol Sloane, Margaret Whiting, Bobby Enriquez, Joanne Brackeen, and Scott Hamilton. It was a huge treat to have Robbie join us at the February 2011 house concert, and we look forward to sharing music again with him.

OMG. This young man is taking the awesome musical genes of his father and is crafting a highly creative and inspiring style on his drums. We are thrilled to have any opportunity to share music with him, because he helps take us to a higher level.

Rick is simply a wild and crazy guy. Wild and crazy about music. He is solid as a rock, which is why you'll find him hanging with a large variety of local bands, playing guitar with the eclectic Southern Roots and bass with jazzer Jim Crisp. He is mostly known as a guitar player, having played that instrument up and down the East coast, including a couple of shows at Carnegie Hall with the renowned soul/R&B singer Stephanie Mills, and also most notably as washboard player in John Fisher's Great American Banjo Band, in Washington DC. The bass playing comes as an economic necessity, plus it's very fun. We are so pleased to have him on the team.

Ed and Alison go back to the mid-1980s performing with Bo Lozoff's Rock & Blues Traveling Road Show, offering shows and clinics to the residents at NC prisons. Since that time Ed has blossomed as a musician, touring regionally, nationally and internationally. He brings to every performance a range of experiences and skills that is fabulously eclectic, always with his hearty laugh and easy-going demeanor. We are thrilled to be sharing music with him again.

Chris "The Rock" Stanley is in his second century of drumming experience and has played a wide range of musical styles across the country. He has played in the Triangle area for the last 40 years with many area musicians, most of whom he really likes. He writes and produces music with his wife, Faye, as Clapping Dog and hopes to someday develop a really awesome single stroke roll.

You might be wondering about the photo. Here's what Chris has to say about his offering: "This is the best recent picture that I have but I’m not actually playing drums in it so I don’t know if you can use it or not. It catches the salt and pepper hair though."

Chloe is an extraordinary woman - so talented, smart, charming. She engages audiences of any size with her innately kind soul and love for life. In between acting, dancing, and doing voice-overs, she sings her heart out. Watch for her.

Danny is a fabulous musician and an outstanding human being. Teacher, performer, recording artist extraordinaire. We are so looking forward to collaborating in duo/trio format in 2012. Stay tuned.

Born in 1966, Paul Rosenberg has been living, working and making music in Chapel Hill, NC since 1981. Since returning from Oberlin in 1988 Paul has been writing, performing and recording music while raising a family with his wife Evette and starting two businesses. Paul has performed in a variety of settings, including the acoustic group Twice Upon A Time with wife Evette, as sideman (guitar and vocals) for Americana songwriter Joe Woodson, bass player for Too Much Fun, and as leader of The Waterlilies. Paul has recorded, mixed and mastered his own recordings as well as two albums with Joe Woodson, and the mix and mastering of Too Much Fun’s Half As Hip. A multi-instrumentalist, Paul plays guitars, bass, drums, percussion, keyboards and vocals.
Paul loves every single part of making music, and considers himself to be supremely fortunate and blessed to be able to make music with the wonderful people with whom he plays.

Another fantastic musician disguised as an IT guy. We're going to get him out of the closet this year, he's been buried in there with his mandolin. We are sure he is ready to come out smokin'.