Joel Nelson Productions: Bay Area Event Planning, DJs and Live Music

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Dan Nieckarz

Dan performs in a variety of formats including solo guitar and various duo/trio/combo configurations. In addition to his work as a leader and soloist, Dan performs frequently as a sideman with vocalists and other musicians...

Dave Evison

Legends like Sinatra, Ellington, and Tony Bennett embody that beautiful musical feeling known as swing. Some of us were born to be keepers of that flame...

Tom Rigney

The son of baseball great, Bill Rigney, Tom is a native of the Bay Area. His musical career began after he finished his graduate studies at Harvard University, where he received a Masters degree in Fine Arts...

Victoria Hughes

Because of her skills as an instrumental arranger, Victoria is one of the few harpists that can actually take requests. She believes in playing music that people know and recognize, whether it is a classical piece, or a current pop hit...

David O'Connor

Flamenco guitarist David O'Connor has been sharing his talent for more than 40 years in a wide variety of musical situations. Although David's home base has been the Monterey Bay/Santa Cruz, California area since his early twenties, his past experience has found him on tour both nationally and abroad with such notables as The Lettermen and Leonard Cohen...

William Taylor Prichard

William Taylor Prichard is an experienced, dynamic, and personable wedding guitar master. His fluidity transverses countless styles and genres of music...

Kent Cohea

Being educated at Berklee School of Music in Boston, and learning from Joe Henderson in San Fransico, where he presently lives, has given Cohea a wide range of musical expression within the standard jazz genre...

Louie Moon

To me music is powerful magic, opening windows into our hearts and souls. Performing music has given me the chance to interact with people locally, and travel the world to experience the magic in other cultures...

Krista Strader

Krista has been the featured harpist with the Mark Thallander Foundation, working with guest conductor John Rutter, and has enjoyed roles as Principal Harpist and concerto soloist with the William Lock Singers and Orchestra, major works including Handel's B-flat Concerto and Ravel's Introduction and Allegro...

Manolo Vargas

Manolo Vargas began his artistic career as a young child in Sevilla, Spain. When his teachers realized he had perfect pitch and could memorize a song after hearing it just once, the Jesuit priests at his school knew he had talent...