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The Earthwire Band:
A Group of Internationally Acclaimed Recording Artists and Music Producers

Drew Youngs & Rolando Morales Lead
The Bay Areas Foremost World Beat Music Group,
Blending the Sounds of Pop, Latin, Rock, Flamenco, Samba, Jazz,
and Afro Cuban, with a Rock Funk Edge

Members of the Earthwire Band are:

Drew Youngs started his career in Palo Alto in the late 70’s as a singer and guitarist with Phil Mattson and the Fanfairs. He has also plucked a few notes with various leading artists throughout the bay area such as Pete Escovedo, Herbie Hancock, John Handy, Steve Miller... Read more or Watch Video

Rolando Morales is largely self-taught. Blessed with great ears and a natural sense of rhythm, most of what he learned came from performing in diverse bands while growing up and in college, as well as from playing with flamenco pros in mesones in Spain. Rolando has performed throughout Spain, England, Italy, Ireland, Mexico, and Hawaii... Read more or Watch Video

Steve Kindler is an internationally recognized Violinist, who has pioneered work with multi-stringed electric violins. He began his career in music at 10 years old playing with the Portland Youth Philharmonic, and by 14 was touring internationally with the orchestra. At 16 he received a scholarship to study at Tanglewood institute under the batons of Leonard Bernstein, Seigi Ozawa, and studied privately with Eugene Lehner and Roman Totenberg. At 18, he was invited to join the inovative Jazz Fusion ensemble The Mahavishnu Orchestra where he played with greats John McLaughlin, Jean Luc Ponty and Narada Michael Walden..
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Marc van Wageningen was born and raised in Amsterdam, Holland and started playing bass guitar at the age of 16. He moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1980 and started playing with jazz greats Eddie Marshall, George Marshall, Larry Schneider and Mel Martin... Read more or Watch Video

Throughout his career, Rock Hendricks has worked with many legendary performers such as Michael Jackson, John Lee Hooker, Lydia Pense & Cold Blood, The Funkadelics, Michael Buble, Bonnie Raitt, Marvin Gaye, The Temptations, Bobby Womack, Leon Russel, Coke Escovedo, Walter Becker and Donald Fagan... Read more or Watch Video

Celso Alberti was born in Curitiba, Southern Brazil. The driving rhythms of his country’s music led him to develop an early interest in the drums and by the age of 17 he was performing regularly as a professional... Read more or Watch Video

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Omar Ledezma is the musical director and lead vocalist for Orquesta Saboriche. Born in Caracas, Venezuela, Omar has been taking the Bay Area by storm with his talents in latin percussion as well as vocals. Omar is a key member of several other hard-hitting salsa bands such as Candela, Orquesta América, La Moderna Tradición, and the Venezuelan Music Project. He brings a new and refreshing vocal energy to Orquesta Saboriche’s sound... Read more or Watch Video

Paul van Wageningen was born in Amsterdam, where he attended the Amsterdam Conservatory, Paul moved to New York in 1976 to be closer to the American Jazz scene. Since his relocation to the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 70s, he has gained recognition as one of the premier drummers in the area of multicultural drumming, receiving three Grammy nominations... Read more or Watch Video