Samson Trinh

My elementary ukulele students and teaching method are featured FRONT PAGE in the Metro Section of the Richmond Times Dispatch! CLICK HERE to view the article and vid clip.

Celebrating 8 amazing years of local independent radio from Richmond’s own WRIR 97.3fm. YOUR radio station. YOUR party. We’ll be performing 3rd on the Main Stage.

Bands also performing: Dead Fame Canary Oh Canary Wolf//Goat

Date: Friday, February 1st
Venue: The Renaissance
Time: 7:00pm
Address: 107 West Broad Street # 300

Samson Trinh arranges, orchestrates, conducts, and produces The Upper East Side Big Band on this classic John Lennon/Yoko Ono holiday piece sung by Susan Greenbaum and The City Singers Children’s Choir (director: Leslie Moruza Dripps). CLICK THE LINK ABOVE TO SAMPLE AND BUY this epic single for only 99 CENTS!

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We’re excited to be making our first live show appearance in Charlottesville opening up for 80s bluegrass band, Love Canon! Love Canon is vocalist/guitarist, Jesse Harper (of acoustic supergroup Old School Freight Train), bassist, Darrell Muller (also of OSFT), Adam Larrabee (jazz guitar/banjo virtuoso), Andy Thacker (mandolin), and Nate Leath (fiddle). It’s going to be an epic night with a finale featuring both ensembles on stage together performing new arrangements!

Fresh off from our recent “Live Art” show with SPARC, The Upper East Side Big Band is back and tighter than ever. And to add more awesomeness, jazz trumpet legend, John D’earth will be joining the UESBB horn section that night to blow your faces off!

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Featuring students with and without developmental disabilities and hearing impairment performing alongside legendary musicians: Robbin Thompson, Steve Bassett, Susan Greenbaum, Jesse Harper, Josh Small, Marc Langelier, Samson Trinh and the Upper East Side Big Band. UESBB will be the house band under the musical direction of Samson. Richmond natives, Daniel Clarke (keyboardist for k.d. lang) and Jason Mraz will serve as artistic advisers for this mind blowing event! TICKETS ARE GOING FAST SO GET THEM NOW!

LINKS:

www.sparconline.org/liveart – ticket sales page

http://bit.ly/LiveArtExcerpt – 4 minute except from the LIVE ART documentary

sparcliveart.tumblr.com/ – LIVE ART tumble page @SPARConline- Twitter name

http://www.facebook.com/sparconline – Facebook page

CLICK HERE to read Harry Kollatz’s write up on Samson Trinh & The Upper East Side Big Band’s recent Pollak Prize win for Best Ensemble!

Richmond Magazine awarded Samson Trinh & The Upper East Side Big Band Best Ensemble for the Theresa Pollak Prize for Excellence in the Arts! The issue hits the stands this October. Excellent write up and pics.

Nice write up about Upper East Side Big Band’s recent Dogwood Dell performance by Karen from her blog, “I Could Go On and On”. Photo by Melisa Brugh:

Wouldn’t It Be Nice? (Saturday, June 11, 2011)

“Next time, bring a glass.”

That’s what the woman sitting near me at Dogwood Dell said to me at the end of the evening. Earlier, when she’d tried to surreptitiously open a bottle of wine, I’d looked over and grinned at her.

All good Richmonders know alcohol is forbidden at the Dell. That said, I’ve never once been to a a performance there and not seen people drinking. Most people.

So at the end of the evening, she’d made sure to… keep reading…

That’s right!!! Friday, June 10th at 8PM… FREE! Dogwood Dell has invited Samson Trinh & The Upper East Side Big Band to open up the Summer Concert Series again! Last year’s turn out was filled way past the 2,400 seat capacity. Joining them for the first set will be the six-piece Jazz/Americana group, the Mills Family Band.

The 20-piece big band will feature guest vocalists Adrian Duke, Allyson Mills-Steele, Curtis Mills, Desiree Roots Centeo, John Winn (from the Neighborliness Jazz Quartet), Terri Simpson (from the Butterbean Quartet), and Laura Ann Singh (from Quatro na Bossa). This is the DREAM TEAM of Richmond singers!!!

Why SO many vocalists? Because Samson’s going to present a smorgasbord of brand-spanking new musical… keep reading…