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PLUS ... Live Auction will also feature this Buy a Spot party - if you can't join us that night but would like to come, contact lisa@gratefulgatherings.org to grab
contact lisa@gratefulgatherings.org to grab your spots. Spots are limited and typically sell out!
BUY A SPOT PARTY ~ JAZZ IN THE HILLS
Saturday in June or July 2027 (date TBA soon). 50 spots available; $200 per person.
Sign up party with founders Donna Wright Somerville and Chris Flitter, to be held at the beautiful home of Jon and Ina Bendich in the Berkeley hills, featuring a famed jazz ensemble of accomplished Bay Area musicians and bay views for days. The host of the evening and one of the performers, Jon
Bendich, has worked for the past thirty-five years as a producer,
songwriter,and percussionist in the SF Bay Area.
As a percussionist, Jon
has performed with Tito Puente, The Last Poets, George Duke &
Stanley Clarke, Gerald Albright, Robben Ford, Pete Escovedo, Ray Obiedo,
John Santos, Frank McComb, Lisa Stansfield, and MC Hammer. Jon is an accomplished recording artist, music publisher, songwriter with a catalog containing over 280 songs (including more than eighty songs commercially released). Jon's songs have
been recorded by an assortment of Jazz, R&B and Pop acts including
Peabo Bryson (BMG), Larry Graham (Capitol), Walter Beasley (PolyGram),
Will Clayton (PolyGram), Joe Public (Sony), Starpoint (Elektra), Z'
Looke (Orpheus/Capitol), Omar Chandler (MCA), Shades of Lace
(Wing/PolyGram), Street Fare (Atlantic), Lenny
Williams (Fantasy), and Ray Obiedo (Windham Hill). Currently, Jon
works as a studio musician, and records extensively. As a featured
percussionist, Jon's work can be heard on En Vogue's award winning
triple platinum album "Funky Divas," as well as on albums by Jesse Colin
Young, Lenny Williams, Pete Escovedo, Ray Obiedo, Luce, Carl Lockett,
Lady Bianca, Lloyd Gregory, Sakai and Jenna Mammina.
Saturday in June or July 2027 (date TBA soon). 50 spots available; $200 per person.
Can’t attend GATHER?
Contact lisa@gratefulgatherings.org and we can arrange a proxy bid on your behalf!
Can't come but interested in a Live lot? Let us bid on your behalf! Contact lisa@gratefulgatherings.org. You just might win!
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