It’s raining arts
22 letters: Shawn Livingston Moseley.
Entertainment: What does it mean to you? A movie? Live music or dance? Or all of the above with an art show on top?
Pianist Shawn Livingston Moseley returns to the Hawai’i concert stage after 14 years away, and with a gathering of some of the island’s top talent, puts on an all-inclusive night of diversion titled The Storm Before the Calm. Moseley’s compositions range in style from Beethoven and Chopin to pop and hip-hop so you can’t say it’s just not your thing.
The evening’s musical lineup boasts Moseley on piano (he was a nationally ranked classical pianist at age 8), Jeff Peterson and Stephen Inglis on guitar, John Hawes on bass, Jason Segler on drums and Melissa Chimera and Navid providing the vocals. Members of IONA Contemporary Dance Theatre will perform and the Mamiya Theatre lobby will showcase artwork by singer Chimera, Bryce and Judy A. NimtzMyers and Geoff Lee.
The evening’s second half features Moseley and harpist Pumehana Davis Wadsworth adding music to a silent film by Morgan Hoesterey. Now that’s entertainment.
Moseley is a Punahou and Berklee College of Music grad. He now runs ‘Aumakua Records with partner Rodney Alejandro, a winner of just about every big-time award imaginable.-
