Soul Music Series

Y’all, WOW Gallery is excited to kick off our carefully curated live and soulful music series showcasing Black Love originals by featured artists and covers that will get you caught up in the rapture of Black Love!

AMAZING artists you need to know will perform music in the raw Acoustic and A cappella! These singing, songwriting, musicians have performed with grammy award winning artists or won grammy’s themselves. They are local, national, and global. Every listening session will include a desert champagne reception, original music by the artists, and covers from artists in the Iconic Black Women collection.

On Sunday, March 27th, WOW Gallery will host Jazz guitarist Michael Powers in the WOW Gallery from 4-7pm!

Michael Powers was born in New York City in 1960, but grew up in the San Francisco Bay area. His musical career began as therapy, when at the age of 15 he took up strumming the guitar to strengthen his wrist after a skateboard accident. Following his graduation from Berkeley High School when he was 15, he moved to Seattle and frequented local jam sessions, keeping his fingers on the guitar strings and his mind on making his music reach a wider audience. He enrolled at Seattle’s prestigious Cornish College of the Arts where he studied under composers Gil Evans and Sam Rivers, bassist Gary Peacock, pianist Art Lande, and trombonist Julian Priester.

On stage, Michael has shared performed with, recorded with or shared billings with piano giant Herbie Hancock, classic Jazz saxophonist Eddie “Clean Head” Vinson, B3 master Dr. Lonnie Smith, Ronnie Cuber, Gil Scott Heron, Keiko Matsui, Nancy Wilson, Les McCann, Najee, Tommy Davidson, Dr. Cornel West, the legendary Ray Charles, Afro-pop star King Sunny Ade, Grammy award-winning vocalist Diane Schuur, R&B greats Gladys Knight and the Pips and Atlantic Starr, contemporary Jazz artists Ronny Jordan, Tom Grant, David Benoit, sax great Ernie Watts, the Yellowjackets, and the duo of Tuck & Patti.

More here: http://michaelpowersmusic.com/2015/

Get your tickets TODAY and join us every Sunday at 4pm for this soulful series of live music in the raw— acoustic and a cappella vocals, horns, and strings at WOW Gallery.