PERCUSSIONIST, BANDLEADER

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Concert and recording artist, arranger, and producer Annette A. Aguilar is a versatile percussionist and composer. Born in San Francisco, CA, the daughter of Nicaraguan immigrants, Annette A Aguilar began playing music at the age of 11. Growing up in S.F.'s Noe Valley and Mission District where she listened to boleros and tangos on the radio as well as Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane and The Grateful Dead (with whom she would one day perform) and where Santana developed the "West Coast Latin Beat", it was no surprise that she soon gravitated towards drumming.

StringBeans:

String instruments, congas and frijoles (beans, habichuelas) might seem like a strange mixture of ingredients, but in the hands of percussionist Annette A. Aguilar & StringBeans, her Latin Brasilian Jazz band, they become a musical feast. This exquisite ensemble blends Afro-Cuban and Afro-Brasilian rhythms with harp, guitar, violin, piano and bass creating the unique StringBeans string and percussion sound. This extraordinary group of outstanding musicians performs under the direction of concert and recording artist Aguilar, who leads, arranges and writes some of the groups compositions.

ANNETTE A. AGUILAR & STRINGBEANS - NO CHEAP DATES (2005)

Annette A. Aguilar Leader, conga, djembe, bongos, marimba, pandeiro, repinique, tamborim, surdo, cajon, snare, percussion
Eddie Bobe Vocal 1,3; quinto 1
Freddie Bryant Guitar 1,2,string (all solos, intro on 6)
Vince Cherico Drums
Jane Getter Guitar 4,5, solo on 6
Glenn Jude Healy Surdo, tamborim, shakers 1,7,8,10
Lewis Kahn Violin
Scott Kettner Surdo, alfaia, pandeiro, taborim caxixi, cowbells
Cliff Korman Piano 2,3,8,9
Enrique Orengo Cello 2,3,5,7
Victor Rendon Timbales 2,5; drums 1; percussion 8
Harvie S Bass
Steve Sandberg Piano 4,5,6,7
Rob Thomas Violin (all solos)
Ellen Uryevick-Adams Concert harp, percussion 1,4,8

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