This is a great festival with food and rides for the whole family. We will be appearing right after the Angel City Chorus, directed by Sue Fink, Ric's former voice teacher. Hopefully we will have copies of our new CD. See you there!
MASANGA MARIMBA
NEWS- On October 25th, Masanga opened for Neil Young, Beck, and Lana Del Rey at the Harvest Moon Gathering. On Christmas Eve, we closed out the 65th Annual LA County Holiday Celebration on PBS SoCal. Click HERE to watch!
Our 9-piece band plays at festivals, community events, private parties, and school assemblies. We play Latin, Pan African, and American music on 7 Zimbabwean-style marimbas, mbiras, drums, trombone and trumpet. There is no other band quite like us!
Our song list includes The Lion Sleeps Tonight, La Bamba, Waka Waka, Guantanamera, Grazing in the Grass, Knock on Wood, Kids, Safe and Sound, and traditional music from Africa and Latin America.
We also do performances of Guatemalan marimba and Shona mbira music when requested.
See photos of our band HERE
See a live performance of our Latin Cumbia medley HERE
Go to our bio HERE See our full website HERE
Contact for booking and pricing:
Ric Alviso 310-486-2189 ric.alviso@csun.edu.
For our EPK click HERE
MASANGA MEMBERS:
Ric Alviso: vocals, marimbas, MBIRAs
Monica Bowser: vocals, marimbas
Steve Hernandez: vocals, drum set, percussion, marimbas
Risa Isogawa: vocals, marimbas
Joel Mankey: vocals, marimbas, trumpet
Nick Schutz: vocals, drum set, marimbas
Alex Smith: vocals, drum set, marimbas
Stefani Thomas: vocals, marimbas
Wyatt Garrett: vocals, marimbas, trombone
This is our LATEST VIDEO!
Upcoming Shows!
We're very happy to be part of this inaugural concert series in Santa Ynez. We will do a full 90 minute show with all our standard favorites plus some new material. Pay what you can or pay it forward - no one will be turned away. These are good people working in collaboration with the Santa Barbara Youth Project. We hope to see you there!