What a great week of gigs with Dharma last week was! Starting with a Ashkenaz in Berkeley, CA, last thursday. Smallish, but enthusiastic crowd, got down on the beautiful dance floor at Ashkenaz. What a great venue! Wonderful sound, great staff, and a very cool vibe there. Then Friday, at the Gallo Center , was perhaps the highlight of the week. Another great crowd, about 2/3 full in the Foster Family Theater, enjoyed the show quite a bit it seemed! Again, a very supportive crew on sound and lights made us feel at home, and the audience was on their feet at the end of the show. Inspired playing by everyone , and a timbale battle between Carlos and Omar, nearly brought the house completely down! Next night, on Friday, we played at the Torch Club in Sacramento. I was wondering how we would go over at a mostly blues bar, but the crowd dug the sound! They were on the dance floor all night, and we had an awesome time there. Mark , the booking agent has already talked to me about having [...]
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Just found out we will be performing in the early fall at an amazing venue- the Gallo Center for the Arts in Modesto, CA. Super psyched for this, which will be August 31, 2012 !
What a crazy week this has been. The show at Rasella's celebrating the release of Road Warrior was awesome, lots of friends and music fans there and the band sounded great. Was a tremendous night and one I will never forget. Thanks to all who came out and supported!!
The CD / album is now out on CD Baby, itunes, napster, amazon, most digital stores, and my favorite website: bandcamp! Now the work of promoting really begins. I am excited and optimistic about the future of this project!
The latin jazz/ salsa website /blog Solar Latin Club produces a yearly compilation album of new latin jazz/salsa , and "Vamanos Pa'l Monte" was selected for the album- excited to get word of Dharma out to people worldwide with this!
Hello folks, so happy to announce our CD release- finally!! "Road Warrior" is set to release Oct. 1, and our CD release Party will be at Rassela's, San Francisco, on Oct. 20. We hope to see you there to celebrate, and if you haven't already, and wish to pre-order our album you may do so here:
http://orquestadharma.bandcamp.com/
Tickets for the CD release are available at the door, or here:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/196546
The songs are available for streaming here on the website, on the music page. If you enjoy what you hear, and wish to take us with you, in your car, on your ipod, or wherever , we hope you will consider buying the album- Digital download version only $7, and the physical CD + digital download only $10! Thanks for your support!! See you on the 20th! :)