6-7pm – Gabriela Sweet
For Gabriela, her guitars are dearest collaborators. “My 1930s dobros and my Nationals have open sound doors, so I can hear things that I wouldn’t, otherwise. I love to hear what these tremendously responsive guitars do especially when improvising and playing bottleneck slide in open tunings”. Gabriela plays instrumentals & songs with words: jazz, son montuno, festejo, zydeco, American standards, blues, and sings in Spanish, English, French, Gaelic, German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Tagalog, and Ukrainian.
7-9pm – Pavel Jany and Dean Harrington
Pavel Jany is a contemporary jazz guitarist and composer whose long musical journey encompasses many various styles. Pavel has founded several international jazz projects on the Twin Cities’ music scene, including Brazilian jazz ensemble Ticket To Brazil, instrumental trio Talking Strings, and jazz/fusion group Global Jazz Collegium. He is a co-founder of Duo CORDA and he occasionally performs and records with other local and international artists.
Dean Harrington earned a Bachelor of Music Degree in Classical Guitar Performance from the University of MN and was a first prize winner in the Schubert Club scholarship competition. For the last two decades he has been exclusively a jazz musician performing with his own band Mill City Hot Club and other local groups. He is proud of his work as a guitar teacher for over 30 years at K & S Conservatory of Music in Woodbury, The Music Lab in Minneapolis, and Mount Olivet School of Music in Edina.
