Date/Time
Date(s) - 11/16/2013
3:00 PM - 11:30 PM
Location
Open Door Church, The
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“After years of traveling to Prog Rock festivals across the USA. My love of Prog Rock has brought me to this point. We need more live Progressive Rock shows in Northern California! So I bring you NorCal Prog Rock Festival. I hope we can continue doing these for years to come. Come out and support the music with me!” – Kurt Matson, Director of NorCal Prog Festival
Heliopolis – West Coast (USA) Progressive Rock
Put former members of acclaimed progressive rock bands Gabble Ratchet, Mars Hollow and Ten Jinn in a room together and what do you get?
Heliopolis (“City of the Sun” in Greek; special thanks to Ron Fuchs for suggesting the name), a most appropriate moniker for a band based out of the sunny climes of Los Angeles.
The Heliopolis mission: to build upon the foundations established by our previous musical experiences in a bold attempt to take the music further afield into uncharted sonic waters – with an emphasis on melody, composition, and improvisation – and to bring the music alive onstage with energy and passion.
- Jerry Beller — Drums and backing vocals
- Matt Brown — Keyboards, lead and backing vocals
- Kerry Chicoine — Bass and backing vocals
- Scott Jones — Lead vocals
- Mike Matier — Guitars and backing vocals
Music that stretches boundaries and sweeps genres. Their music fits somewhere between jazz, experimental new music, art-rock, funk, and progressive rock. Utilizing the vintage sounds of a Hammond B3 organ, Fender Rhodes, and Moog synthesizer, vocals, vibes,and viola, you may notice sounds that are all at once sweet and silly, riff-crazed, but deceptively free and simple. We are inspired by the sounds of Sunra, Japanese prog duet ‘Ruins’, French epic proggers ‘Magma’ as well as a host of other denizens of boundary pushing music.
- Bill Wolter – Guitar
- Chris Lauf – Drums
- Stevo Wright – Bass
- Andrew Vernon – Keyboards
- Ivor Holloway – Saxophone
- Melody Ferris – Vocals
- David Shaff – Trumpet
A progressive rock keyboardist, composer and producer from California. He has written and produced over 30 albums since 1993 with his chanteuse spouse Lana Lane, his band Rocket Scientists, his own solo albums and numerous guest appearances. Erik’s evocative keyboard technique is reminiscent of the legendary Keith Emerson, Rick Wakeman, Patrick Moraz and Jon Lord while still very unique and forward-moving in its own right. Erik takes many of the classic riffs and phrases of his heroes and reinvents them with highly emotional pitch bending, vibrato and authoritative phrasing. This technique combines brilliantly with Erik’s mastery of sound and production. Erik has personally led sound design efforts on several major brand synthesizers, and his knowledge of synthesis and audio engineering are second to none. Erik’s perpetual live use of vintage and classic instruments, particularly Moog synthesizers, give his concerts a depth and authenticity of sound seldom seen in modern stage productions.
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