Benefit for Arise HS featuring Sandy Cressman & Homenagem Brasileira
2014-05-20
Lakeside Theater
Kaiser Center, 300 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, CA
5:30 PM, Tuesday, May 20, 2014

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[6:12 PM lights down, speeches, video presentation, more speeches, and then announcements]

1. [6:41 PM] Deixa (Baden Powell)
2. [6:46 PM] Coração Sem Saída (Dori Caymi) (The Heart Has No Exit)
3. [6:54 PM] Brigas Nunca Mais (Antonio Carlos Jobim) (No More Fighting)
4. [7:00 PM] Bala com Bala (João Bosco)
5. [7:07 PM] Menina Vai (Cressman)
6. [7:12 PM] ? “because we are the same”
7. [7:17 PM] Sambinha (Sajdera)
8. [7:26 PM] ?dalisaensa (Cressman)
   [show ends 7:32 PM, no encore]

• Jeff Cressman: trombone;
• Sandy Cressman: vox, pandiero, percussion;
• Fred Randolph: contrabass;
• Anne Sajdera: keyboards;
• Phil Thompson: drums.

Sadly, tonight's benefit concert did not seem to have drawn much of a crowd. Hard for me to say what the issue was, but certainly any number of explanations could be posed. Hopefully the school netted at least a little bit after covering their costs!

I thought the opening presenters were all well-spoken, and the multimedia presentation was pretty engaging too.

Sandy's set was darn good, though I would have liked a little more variation in the offerings … maybe a bit more in different tempos? Hard to put my finger on it exactly, only that by the end, I felt like it was all a little too samey-samey.

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