Brogden Bay Presents music series is moving to the California Museum of Art Thousand Oaks (CMATO)
ONE DOOR CLOSES…
…and another one opens! I am pleased to tell you that the Brogden Bay Presents music series is moving to the California Museum of Art Thousand Oaks (CMATO), located in the The Oaks Mall in Thousand Oaks. CMATO is a lovely space with a Main Gallery that will eventually seat over 100 people, making it bigger than the Four Friends Gallery.
I have been impressed with the response to the idea of presenting concerts by the Board of Directors and Staff at CMATO. I particularly want to thank Executive Director Tish Greenwood, Gallery Manager Callie Lintz, and Senior Curator Lynn Farrand. Everyone has been so welcoming that I can’t help but feel this new location will be a success!
Larry Janss made the difficult decision to close the Four Friends Gallery for very good reasons that I completely understand. Larry was instrumental in moving the series to CMATO and I am grateful for his continued support. I also want to thank Christopher Broughton, Gallery Director at the Four Friends Gallery. He always went out of his way to help whenever I asked him.
So… please join us for a concert very soon and explore the exhibits in CMATO as well as the music you’ve come to enjoy.
With my thanks to all,
Steve Brogden
I am very pleased to announce that the Brogden Bay Presents music series is moving to the California Museum of Art Thousand Oaks (CMATO) located in the Thousand Oaks Mall. CMATO provides a lovely Main Gallery space that will eventually provide more seating than what we had at the Four Friends Gallery. The Four Friends Gallery is now closed, a very difficult decision by Larry Janss which I understand completely. In fact Larry was the one who suggested moving the series to CMATO and I am grateful for his desire to see the music continue. I am also grateful for his allowing me to use the Four Friends Gallery these past three and a half years. You will continue to see Larry at our concerts and we can all look forward to that.
I am thrilled to announce that the opening concert in the CMATO series will be Don Randi and Quest! Don Randi is a composer, arranger, music director and keyboard musician. As part of the Wrecking Crew group of studio musicians, he has made hundreds of hit records in the 1960s and 1970s. Randi founded L.A.’s Baked Potato jazz club in 1970 and has released 20 jazz albums of his own, including the 1980 Grammy-nominated New Baby and 2013’s Acoustimania. Don has also published “You’ve Heard These Hands,” a memoir of his days with the Wrecking Crew and beyond.
Here is a first-rehearsal surf version of Grieg’s “In The Hall of the Mountain King.” It was a rehearsal before their Good Jazzy Vibrations tour of Norway in December 2017.
Museum members with tickets are invited to a Meet & Greet with Don Randi from 7:00 – 7:30!
L’optique Féminine – exhibit
the OUT comes IN – exhibit
