{"id":17865,"date":"2024-07-22T17:35:15","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T00:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amateurmusic.org\/info\/?page_id=17865"},"modified":"2025-08-21T16:43:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T23:43:02","slug":"song-circle-artists","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/amateurmusic.org\/info\/song-circle-artists\/","title":{"rendered":"Song Circle Guest Artists"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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About Our Guest Artists<\/b><\/h2>\n

All our\u00a0Song Circle Guest Artists<\/strong>\u00a0bring their expertise and love of community to inspire us to join together in singing. We explore multiple genres and styles, all grounded in creating an hour of fun in song.<\/p>\n

Song Circle 2024-25<\/h2>\n

Oct 3 –\u00a0Music of Carole King<\/strong>\u00a0with Kathy Kennedy
Nov 14 –\u00a0Music of Elvis Presley<\/strong>\u00a0with Maurice Tani
Feb 6 –\u00a0Music of Johnny Cash & June Carter<\/strong>\u00a0with Lynne Maes & Hank Maninger
Mar 6 –\u00a0Joni Mitchell Tribute<\/strong>\u00a0with Kathy Kennedy
Apr 3 –\u00a0Beatles Night<\/strong>\u00a0with David Gans
May 1 –\u00a0Motown Night<\/strong>\u00a0with David Gans, Kathy Kennedy, and Tony Lufrano
Jun 5 –\u00a0Freedom Songs<\/strong>\u00a0with Candace Johnson<\/p>\n

Meet The Artists<\/b><\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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<\/i><\/span><\/i><\/span>Oct 3 - Kathy Kennedy<\/span><\/i><\/div>
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Kathy Kennedy<\/strong> has been singing professionally in the Bay Area for over 20 years with groups like The Charmers, the Zasu Pitts Memorial Orchestra, and later Big Bang Beat. She has performed at resorts all over the world in Hawaii, Europe, Istanbul and the Caribbean. Kathy has also performed as a back-up singer with many big names over the years. As part of an in-house band, she sang with Bonnie Raitt, Ronnie Spector (The Ronettes), Barbara Lewis, Eddie Money, Bill Spooner (The Tubes) and also with The Wrecking Crew, featuring Hal Blane and Al Jardine (The Beach Boys). She also toured with Mickey Thomas Starship, singing lead on Grace Slick’s “White Rabbit” and “Nothings Gonna Stop Us Now.\u201d She currently sings Motown classics and buried song treasures with The Soul Delights, and is consistently in demand to perform at parties and events with a wide variety of Bay area bands.<\/p>\n

Learn more about Kathy Kennedy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>

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<\/i><\/span><\/i><\/span>Nov 14 - Maurice Tani<\/span><\/i><\/div>

\"\"Maurice Tani<\/strong> is a San Francisco born and based singer-songslinger, known for his wry\/rye-to-romantic writing, agile guitar style and expressive singing. With his band, Maurice Tani & 77 El Deora has been the source of untold, but exquisite suffering on the west coast Americana scene for over twenty years. In the 80s and 90s, Maurice was the lead guitarist and a featured vocalist for Zasu Pitts Memorial Orchestra and Big Bang Bea. Fronting his own bands, Calamity & Main, 77 El Deora, he has produced a series of albums for himself and others. Tani now has ten albums to his credit. The latest is \u201cAll In!\u201d, a broad-spectrum tincture folk, soul, Americana and gospel featuring a wide array of guests from the Little Village roster.<\/p>\n

Learn more about Maurice Tani<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>

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<\/i><\/span><\/i><\/span>Feb 6 - Lynne Maes & Hank Maninger<\/span><\/i><\/div>

\"\"Hank Maninger <\/strong>and Lynne Maes<\/strong> started performing together almost accidentally – a happy accident, as it turns out, because it sparked a musical collaboration that has produced three albums and brought them to venues ranging from the iconic Ivy Room to San Francisco\u2019s Great American Music Hall. Together with their bandmates Tim Wagar and Leor Beary, their honkytonk band Nashville Honeymoon offer original tunes that build on country, rockabilly, and honkytonk traditions.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Folks from the Bay Area are likely to recognize Hank\u2019s signature sound on guitar, bass, and vocals. He has been active on the roots music scene since the early 80\u2019s, playing in bands such as Bonnie Hayes and the Wild Combo and internationally with the Hacienda Brothers. When he\u2019s not busy with Nashville Honeymoon, Hank leads his own roots trio (Hank Maninger and the Jukebox Charlies), and plays bass with The Seducers.<\/p>\n

Lynne played acoustic guitar as a teen, but it was always just for fun, and usually involved singalongs with her sisters.\u00a0 Hank would listen to her sing around the house and finally convinced her to sing with him in public.\u00a0 Lynne, in turn, convinced Hank to start working with her on their own original material, and they\u2019ve been writing and performing together ever since.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Learn more about Nashville Honeymoon<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>

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<\/i><\/span><\/i><\/span>Mar 6 and May 1 - Kathy Kennedy<\/span><\/i><\/div>

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Kathy Kennedy<\/strong> has been singing professionally in the Bay Area for over 20 years with groups like The Charmers, the Zasu Pitts Memorial Orchestra, and later Big Bang Beat. She has performed at resorts all over the world in Hawaii, Europe, Istanbul and the Caribbean. Kathy has also performed as a back-up singer with many big names over the years. As part of an in-house band, she sang with Bonnie Raitt, Ronnie Spector (The Ronettes), Barbara Lewis, Eddie Money, Bill Spooner (The Tubes) and also with The Wrecking Crew, featuring Hal Blane and Al Jardine (The Beach Boys). She also toured with Mickey Thomas Starship, singing lead on Grace Slick’s “White Rabbit” and “Nothings Gonna Stop Us Now.\u201d She currently sings Motown classics and buried song treasures with The Soul Delights, and is consistently in demand to perform at parties and events with a wide variety of Bay area bands.<\/p>\n

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<\/i><\/span><\/i><\/span>Apr 3 and May 1 - David Gans<\/span><\/i><\/div>

\"\"Known nationwide as a purveyor of literate, improvisational folk-rock with looping, singer\/songwriter\/producer\/photographer\/author David Gans<\/strong> has composed, performed, and written about music for the whole of his adult life. His eleventh full-length album, Drop the Bone<\/em>, is his most ambitious and accomplished record yet.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Arriving in 1966 in time to catch the initial wave of psychedelia and the birth of the counterculture, the LA-born Gans settled as a teenager in the San Francisco Bay Area amidst the full flowering of a music scene burgeoning with bohemianism and creativity.\u00a0 While his primary source of gratification remains the composition and performance of original material, Gans\u2019 career has also focused on providing interpretive context to the songs of myriad influences, primarily the enduring legacy of the Grateful Dead. Other inspirations include John Prine, Steve Goodman, Emmylou Harris, Merle Haggard, Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys, Little Feat, Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen, Donna the Buffalo, and (of course) America\u2019s own Nobel-winning literary lyricist, Bob Dylan. Gans is the author (or co-author) of five books and host of the nationally-syndicated radio programs The Grateful Dead Hour<\/em> and Tales from the Golden Road<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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<\/i><\/span><\/i><\/span>May 1 - Kathy, David, and Tony Lufrano<\/span><\/i><\/div>

\"\"Keyboardist TONY “MACARONI” LUFRANO is an SF area mainstay. Recording credits include The Whispers, Robben Ford, Zigaboo & many more. Live performances include shows at the Apollo Theater, Madison Square Garden, the Umbria Jazz Festival, the old Chitlin’ Circuit and venues around the world.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>

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<\/i><\/span><\/i><\/span>Jun 5 - Candace Johnson<\/span><\/i><\/div>

\"\"Praised by Opera Wire for her vocal clarity, dramatic presence, and expressive interpretation, soprano Candace Y. Johnson<\/strong>, has concertized widely, including guest appearances at Carnegie Hall and The Manhattan Center, and with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra. Johnson is a versatile artist, equally comfortable in opera, musical theater, and jazz. She has performed lead roles in Le Nozze di Figaro<\/em>, The Medium<\/em>, Suor Angelica<\/em>, Fame<\/em>, and she defined the genre-bending role of Jackie in the world premiere of Howard\u2019s End<\/em>, America with RealOpera, San Francisco (2019). Johnson is the creator and owner of FitnesSing!\u2122, her vocal health program that combines vocal training with physical fitness and dance.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On the voice faculty at the University of California-Berkeley since 2009, Johnson teaches applied voice classes and a course on African-American composers.<\/p>\n

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