Honolulu Weekly

Atherton Performing Arts Studio / On Saturday, venture to the sonic realm of “New Age on steroids” with percussionist von Baron and an acclaimed jazz quintet at the Atherton Performing Arts Studio. Baron, who teaches drumming lessons to Hawaii’s keiki when he’s not recording, blends new age and world music on tracks with names like “Tranquil Destination” and “Passion for Peace.” Joining him on the spiritual journey through jazz and pop will be bassist Mark Tanouye, who’s played with Cecilio & Kapono for eight years, Jeff Peterson, a Grammy-award winning slack key-guitar player, keyboardist Dan Del Negro, who played in Miss Saigon during its run in Honolulu, and Tim Tsukiyama, a saxophonist who’s jammed with Ray Charles. To quote another one of von Baron’s song titles, together, the quintet promises to be “Divine Inspiration.”