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

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Dan Levitan

Mr. Levitan's concerto performances by Bach (Johann Christian), Boieldieu, Debussy, Ginastera, Gliere, Mozart, Ravel, Reinecke, and Saint Saens with orchestras throughout the San Francisco Bay Area have been highly praised by local critics...

Katherine Honey

San Francisco's Fairmont, Hilton and St. Francis Hotels and Los Angeles' Disneyland Hotel, Sheraton Universal and Beverly Wilshire have been routine audiences for Katherine's wide variety of genres of music, from the classical to the contemporary...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Kristal Schwartz

Although Kristal enjoys using her musical skills in many venues, she is particularly drawn to small, intimate occasions. These circumstances allow her to see the effect that her music has on her listeners as it transforms stress into tranquility – hurriedness into serenity...