Coming Up At City Winery Napa: Michael Madden and Friends Sept. 4

From City Winery Napa:

Michael Madden and friends featuring Tori Anna, Cedric Curtis, Frank Hernandez and Ari Eisenberg - 9/4

MICHAEL MADDEN

Michael Madden approaches Music like he approaches his next wave: creating opportunities out of challenges and enjoying the ride.

Michael is a singer song writer that started composing music at 14 years old. By the time he graduated high school he had already written over 50 compositions including the scores for several theatrical productions, a theme song for a television show, and his class song.

After graduating from a Mid Pacific Institute School of the Arts, Michael left his home town of Lanikai, Hawaii, moved to Los Angeles and began working in recording studios with the likes of Brian Adams, Sting, and The Lemon Heads. In 1995 Michael left the music business to begin his career in publishing. 

Michael lives in Yountville where he was instrumental in getting The Napa Valley Performing Arts center at Lincoln Theater reopened and held the position of Executive Director there from 2011 through 2014.

Ari Eisenberg

...started singing and playing ukulele when he was 12 at the Uka-A-Palooze festival at the Oxbow Public Market and hasn’t stopped playing and performing since. The 15-year old singer-songwriter, who also plays guitar, mandolin, violin and piano, was the youngest performer three years in a row at the BottleRock Napa Valley music festival and has performed at Napa Bikefest, Silo’s, the Wine County Ukulele Festival, Theatre DeVille, Napa Valley Rocks with Michael Franti and various open mic nights and school performances where he has wowed audience with his powerful and emotional interpretations of rock/pop covers and his own original songs.

Tori Anna -

One of the most fascinating young singers to come along recently is one that is actually reminiscent of those lovely, enchanting voices from long ago. Yountville resident Tori Anna, who is just 20, is an old soul in a spunky --but classic--new incarnation of today’s performer. Her love for the standards was recognized when she was chosen as the top female finisher of the national Michael Feinstein Great American Songbook Vocal Competition in 2012. After a whirlwind year of being an American Idol contestant as well as performing in Las Vegas at the prestigious Smith Center, Tori was a guest performer in Indiana for the Songbook Hall of Fame induction of Liza Minnelli and Rita Moreno. 

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