Please join us for a very special Virtual Concert Gala featuring award-winning songstress Tammi Brown, and Jazz piano virtuoso Eddie Mendelhall performing songs from the Lost American JazzBook, with special guests famed singer-songwriter Lauren Monroe, and Def Leppard’s drummer Rick Allen. The concert will be streamed live from Sunset Center’s Studio 105 as a benefit for Palenke Arts.
Palenke Arts is a multicultural arts organization that offers low-cost and free classes and events to 120+ kids and families in Seaside, California. Our mission is to educate, inspire and transform the community through the arts.
You can access the stream through the link provided, as well as through the website
You can donate to Palenke Arts at any time at https://www.palenkearts.com/donate
TAMMI BROWN
Tammi Brown is the fresh and new voice of the award-winning Lost American JazzBook. Brown has performed with some of the most notable Music Industry Icons known to the world including renowned Music Producer, Quincy Jones, Stanley Jordan, Dr. Maya Angelou, Joan Baez, Spyro Gyra, and Eric Bibb to name a few. She is currently a vocalist in the two-time Grammy Award nominated Vocal Ensemble, The Cultural Heritage Choir led by the Legendary, Musicologist, Linda Tillery. Tammi’s music journey has placed her on several stages in more than ten countries worldwide including the famous Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York, The Monterey Jazz and Blues Festivals, and various prestigious venues throughout Europe and abroad.
EDDIE MENDELHALL
Eddie Mendenhall is an exceptional pianist and composer who currently performs throughout San Francisco Bay and Monterey Bay areas. Eddie attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston and went on to graduate with a degree in Jazz Composition. He then moved to Japan for 7 years and became one of the busiest pianists in Tokyo performing in jazz clubs, hotels, and embassies.
LAUREN MONROE
Authentic. Poetic. Conscious. Real. Raw. She wrote her first song at six. She discovered the written word as a teenager; creating her truly unique style of expressing mystical experiences through symbolic imagery and music. Inspired by bluegrass, rock and rootsy R&B, Lauren soon wrote her first Americana-flavored compositions, and thus began the journey to performing as a vocalist, songwriter, and recording artist.
Born in Queens, New York, Lauren both found and developed her authentic expression through poetry and music…. She began performing acoustic in San Francisco, later moving to Boulder, Colorado and formed her band, Coy Kindred. The band toured the Western U.S.; playing its rugged blend of rock, blues and funk at festivals, theaters saloons and bars.
Moved and inspired by artists such as Bonnie Raitt, Linda Ronstadt and Janis Joplin, surely some of the greatest women rockers ever….Lauren Monroe developed a style that producers, musicians and rock historians have compared to those legendary women of rock and blues….a sound and vocal quality that is a nod to raw, sawdust-on-the-floor honesty that, combined with the emotional and spiritual power of her performance, draws audiences in, invigorates and speaks to us on so many levels.
“I experience music as an activator for healing. The sounds, the phrasing, the tempos, the lyrics all can cultivate a connection to our soul. The songs I write often come through me as visual imagery. I’ve often said that If I could pinpoint a genre for myself I would call my work visual music.”
RICK ALLEN
Rick Allen became the drummer for Def Leppard at age 15. At the height of worldwide fame in 1984, he had a car accident that changed his life. Rick lost an arm, but turned personal tragedy into spiritual transformation and continued his musical career. While he was already a hero to millions of young people, he soon added millions of new admirers. Since then Rick has been reaching out and giving support to others all over the globe by sharing his personal experiences and his love of drumming.
Over the past 10 years Rick has reached out to teenage cancer patients, children with special needs, at risk youth in crisis, families of domestic violence and veterans who have served in Vietnam, Desert Storm, Iraq and Afghanistan. He was awarded the Humanitarian Award by Maria Shriver’s Best Buddies of CA in 2002 and continues his work through the Veteran Resiliency Project created by his nonprofit the Raven Drum Foundation. Rick, in 2012, was also awarded the prestigious Wounded Warrior Project’s Carry It Forward Award.
DYLAN ROSE
"Guitarist, songwriter, and vocalist Dylan Rose has been the founding leader of Santa Cruz, CA-based metal trio Archer Nation since its inception. In addition to full-time duties with Archer Nation, Dylan is called upon to record and perform with many professional acts both locally and abroad. He is also a graduate of Musician's Institute, where he received scholarship honors to attend and complete their GIT program. During time at home, Dylan maintains a full-time schedule offering private guitar instruction.