NO COVER 4:30pm Show
Deano (guitar) & Suwal (tabla) bring their music to the early sets at Berlin. This fortuitous collaboration presents a fresh expression of the dramatically playful interplay between strings and percussion—featuring the sonic cornucopia of tabla weaving into the colorful vibrations of guitar—melodies, grooves, laughter, tears, heart—hear it, heal it...
Dean Magraw studied at the University of Minnesota and Berklee College of Music in Boston. He spent five years in Beantown, playing professionally and teaching. Since returning to his hometown St. Paul, he has had a life of music—playing, composing, arranging, producing, and recording. Magraw’s music is impossible to pigeonhole. For 15 years, he was half of a duo with mandolinist Peter Ostroushko. He has collaborated with Masahiro Nitta, who plays the traditional Japanese shamisen; with Nigel Kennedy, Britain’s bad boy of the classical violin; with Nirmala Rajasekar, South Indian vocalist and player of the vina; with the singers Bruce Henry, Ruth MacKenzie, and Claudia Schmidt; and with the Irish supergroup Altan. As a jazz cat, he leads his own trio, has been performing with Chris Bates and Jay Epstein as Red Planet since 2002, and more recently formed BluLuna.
Suwal Singh (tabla, guitar) has contributed to the Minnesota music scene as part of projects such as SitarTabla (Eastern classical), Yeti Steady (avant-garde soundscapes), MoMoSauce (Nepali music), and Jest (pop rock). He has also worked as a session musician with Nathan Hanson, Brian Roessler, Eric Carranza, Colleen Buckman, and Dave Mehling and has appeared at Icehouse, the Varsity Theater, the Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center, Bedlam Theatre, St. Paul Art Crawl, AZ Gallery, KFAI, the Capri Theater, MN Yoga Conference, and Jazz Central Studios.
