Tuesday, April 7, 7:30 Show (7 door): Mike Marshall & Alessandro Penezzi, Mandolin and Guitar in a Rare Performance at Tsunami

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Mike Marshall is a mandolinist who has collaborated with David Grisman and Darol Anger.

When he was 18, he won Florida statewide contests on fiddle and mandolin.[1] He considers his discovery of David Grisman's music a significant event in his life, admiring how Grisman fused jazz and Latinstyles into his own form of bluegrass.[2] After moving to California, Marshall collaborated with Grisman on film music and joined his quintet. He was a member of the David Grisman Quintet from 1985 to 1990, touring with Jerry Douglas, Béla Fleck, Tony Rice, Mark O'Connor, Stéphane Grappelli, and Darol Anger.[1]

Marshall and Anger collaborate often during their careers. They founded Montreux, with Barbara Higbie and Michael Manring, and the supergroup Psychograss, with Tony Trischka and Todd Phillips. Like Grisman, both groups played an eclectic style of music that combined classical, folk, jazz, and bluegrass. Marshall has performed Brazilian music with the band Choro Famoso and on his second solo album, Brazil: Duets. He released his debut solo album, Gator Strut, in 1989.[1]

Marshall is a virtuoso on the mandolin. He plays a 1924 Gibson F-5 mandolin signed by Lloyd Loar.[2] He helped start the Modern Mandolin Quartet.[citation needed]

Alessandro Penezzi is one of the great virtuosos of Brazilian guitar. By the age of 14, Alessandro had already memorized 400 choros! Today, he is recognized as one of the reference points for choro, and is an active performer and composer, touring regularly in North and South America, Europe, Asia and North Africa. 

He has recorded with Dominguinhos, Hermeto Pascoal, Yamandú Costa, Zimbo Trio, Beth Carvalho, Jazz Sinfônica de São Paulo and the London Symphony and his compositions have been recorded by Yamandú Costa, Danilo Brito and Jane Lenoir, among others.

Awards and nominations include Best Instrumental CD and Best Soloist for the album ‘Quebranto’, which was released in partnership with Yamandú Costa in 2017. Brazilian awards and nominations include: Visa MPB Instrumental (2001), Tim de Música Brasileira (2006), Shell de Teatro and Prêmio da Música Brasileira (2006). Here he is with another artist on the Choro Camp faculty this year, Fábio Peron, playing one of his own compositions, “Cordas ao Vento.”