The Plaza Performances - Thank You!

Thank you!

During the 2011 season, the Silver Spring Town Center, Inc. was pleased to bring exciting community-based arts & entertainment programming to Veterans Plaza. We hosted over 50 performances, with more than 200 performers for thousands of Silver Spring residents & visitors. We brought jazz, blues, rock, folk, country & western, rhythm & blues, reggae, hip-hop and classical music, along with modern dance, to our "community living room."

We also produced over 300 videos of these Plaza Performances which are available on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/user/TheTownCentre

Plaza Performances was a production of the Silver Spring Town Center, Inc. Visit our blog at www.silverspringtowncenter.blogspot.com, follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/sstowncenter or on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/groups/8305814081/

Thanks to all of our performers and thanks to Silver Spring for being such a great audience.

2nd Story Band—Meagan Lane,Geoff de Mers

Archie Edwards Blues Ensemble—Chris Anderson, Mike Baytop, Eleanor Ellis, Jeff Hawkins, Willie Leebel, Adam Oppenheim

BanjerDan—Dan Manzur

Blues Ramblers—Slim Fellows, Anton Hannsman, Gary Venable, Alan Gramley

Boomerang—John Brown, Cap Pendleton, Hank Burnett, Gary Garvin

CaShandra J.—CaShandra J., Aaron Myers, Percy White, Warren "Trae" Crudup

Cloud 9—Michael "TK" Akinlosotu, Adam Dunbar, Jason Zamora, Jonathan Livas, Timm Cruz, Jordan McRae

Club 209—Felix Contreras,David Schulman

Contradiction Dance—Eleni Grove, Carlos Bustamante, Ben Drexler, Alison Waldman, Shelley Alinas, Makeyda Hilliard, Erica Chamblee, Lyndsey Pressley, Matina Phillips, Anneliese Parisi, Dani Quirion

Cooking with Gas—Jim Bunch, Marcus Childs Moore, David Oziel, David Rothman, Bob Sherman

Dimensionz of Bluz—Mike Baytop, Willie Leebel, Marcus Childs-Moore

Fast Eddie & the Slowpokes—Larry Younkins, Charles Solomon, Scott Chadwick, Ed Crowley

Gina DeSimone & the Moaners—Gina DeSimone, Pat Quinn

Groove Jet—Don Berkemeyer ,Garrett Green,Mark Frawley,Greg Brown, Bruce Krohmer

Harmonica Blu Xpress—Howard Hernstadt, Dave Myre, Randy Pittman, James Cooke

Jazz Stimulus Project—Chip Smoley, Guy Stevens, Alan Kirschenbaum, Franklin Wade, Dayton Eckerson

Luisa & Her Imaginary Orchestra—Luisa Rose, Ken Sleeman

Machines on Vacation—Ethan Balis, Melanie Miller, Theresa Schlafly, Kellie MacDonald, Amanda Melara, Rochelle Carpenter, Jodi Balis

Mary Amato & Bill Williams—Bill Williams, Mary Amato

Midnight Sun—Nathan Foley, Miles Lieder, Jonathan Lieder, Fred Lieder

Red Line Quintet—Peter Leonard, Noah Maruyama, Grayson Flood, Matt Volk

Second String Bluegrass Band,Emmett Overstreet, Earl Williams,Paul Young

Snakehead Run—Denny Buck, Mark Casale, Jim Bunch

Stealing Liberty—Jeff Snyder, Tracy Beer, Trevor Specht, Leah DeLano, Bill Cahill, Todd Newell, Jeff DLB

Strings for Joy—Alexandre Paintsil, Jepthalyne Senas, Kevin Gopala-Rao, Stephanie Birmingham, Aniza Moore, Breanna Roth, Evonne Baasch, Dr. Ekatrina DiPinto

SwagFunk—Deirdra Harris, Daryl Braxton, "Funk Master" Mike Sutton,"Smokin" Al Warren, "The Funk Doctor" Scott Eister, Brian A.C. Williams

The Eclectiks—Mike Cohen, Regina Koenig, Charles Tolbert, Frances Eargle, Simona Patange, Pete Stover, Steve Soroka, Gary Daum

The Greater U Street Jazz Collective—Art Cobb, Cashandra Bacon, Thomas View, Peter Frassrand, Russell Carter, Carl Macintyre

The Newports—Blaine Smith, Cal Linley, Mike Henley, Mike DeGraba, Rob Dyer, Debbie Halvorsen, Arlene Jaye, Becky Briggs

The Social Ramble—David Byrd, Jim Lande, Howard Moss

Time2Go—Joey Barnet, Jeremy Gordon, Doug Kahn, Ian Schwenke

Traveling Bluejays—Arlene Jaye, George Hardman, Karen Hardman, Rick Kanton, Michelle Murray, Joyce Ettingoff

Unruly Blues Band—Saskia Van Oot, Lance Nuckolls, Dale Hayman, Robert Gullace, Tony Byrd

Warner Williams—Warner Williams, Joyce Ettingoff

Wendy and The Lost Boys—Wendy Lanxner, Rob Smith, David Uffelman, Steve Wilmarth

Wharf Rats—Robert Gersten, Lenny Dinerman, Eric "Dawg" Metzman, Eric "Huck" Huckleberry, "Cosmic" Carl Baer Schwartzman

Many thanks also to Don Muller, Chris Richardson, Mike Nicholas, Rickey Payton, Reemberto Rodriguez, Jewru Bandeh, Hannah McCann, Chantelle Stewart, Howard Hernstadt, Kelly Mayfield, Carlos Garcia, Capital Accord Chorus, the Urban Nation Academy for the Performing Arts, the Next Level Band Camp, Jazs, and the Arts & Music Ministries of Jesus House.

And very special thanks to Alan Bowser, Don Berkemeyer and Joyce Ettingoff for their efforts in making the Silver Spring Town Center, Inc. Plaza Performances an enormous success!