Bringing Brass band to the United Center with the Brass Animals. Go Blackhawks! Spring, 2024.
Performing Basque folk music at Millennium Park with Uniting Voices Chicago for their 2023 Paint the Town Red festival. Many thanks to UVC and Amaia Gabantxo for the gig.
Just finished performing at Orchestra Hall as a guest artist with the CYSO for their 2018 Gala.
Second Line Parade for the 2019 Chicago Jazz Festival
I played for the Blackhawks game and they won, so clearly they won because of me. I know how sports work. Spring, 2024.
Just finished playing two sold out concerts at Andy's Jazz Club, one of the top venues in Chicago. It was an honor to play Shawn Maxwell's killer original music. September, 2024.
Brass Band NYE at the Four Winds Casino with Justin Amolsch and Los Cumbancheros!
Mole de Mayo Festival 2023. iViva Pilsen!
Rehearsing for a recording session at Columbia College Chicago with the great Nick Eipers. I am thrilled to finally record some of my own compositions. April 2025
All Cats Are Gods
Performing drum set and saxophone duets at Fulton Street Collective with one of Chicago's favorite saxophonists, Andy Schlinder. June 18th, 2024
Being featured on Txalaparta at Millennium Park with Uniting Voices Chicago and Amaia Gabantxo. May 2023.
Playing 2nd Line at Buckingham Fountain for the mayor of Chicago during the height of the pandemic. Music is an unstoppable force of hope.
Performing at "Fiestas de la Calle" with the Four Star Brass Band, a fundraiser to help our Puerto Rican brothers and sister after Hurricane Maria
Mole De Mayo Festival in Pilsen with Giovany Revelle. Long live Rock and Roll.
Subbing with Thomas Madjea's Metamorphosis Youth Orchestra at Millenium Park. The Future is Bright!
The Axe!
Live Jazz at The Front Room with Thomas Madeja and Wayne Jones!
Ángel del Corazón, drum soloist extraordinaire
Don Juan de Pilsen - The Cat, The Myth, The Legend
Skyline view from the south (better) side of Chicago
Playing my arrangement of "Stand By Me" at my brother's wedding
Struggling to see the conductor with the Oak Park Concert Chorale. I either need to get small chimes or grow.
Live jazz and Dance at the Logan Center with Jesse Charbonier and the Joel Hall Dancers
Easter 2016 at Old St. Mary's church in the south loop, performing under the direction of Scott Will. The first gig back after severely injuring my hands. Onward and upward! :)
Just Finishing a rehearsal with Kantuz and guest dancers Ed Clemmons and Leticia Aravena. I'm so lucky to work with them!
Backstage before the wind ensemble concert at NEIU
Just finished performing a set of my original music with some of Chicago's finest musicians for Roosevelt Griffin and his students.
Loading out of Millenium Park after a performance with the Four Star Brass Band
Performing the music of Spain with Kantuz at Instituto Cervantes, Chicago
Angel del Corazón, the famous ladies man from the heart of Chicago
Trying to not screw up my part at the Chopin Theatre
Nils Higdon 4tet, live at the Maxwell Drum Shop.
Protesting Donald Trump with Chicago's very own brass-clad crime fighters, Sousaphones Against Hate. Vote Blue.
Many thanks to the wonderful Meredith McGuire for including me on a wonderful program of world music at Oak Park River Forest High School
Photo Shoot in my beautiful neighborhood of Pilsen.
Performing Basque folk music on the main stage in Millenium Park in Chicago. If you look closely in the bottom left of the screen you can see that this photo is actually of a TV. The concert was broadcast all the way to Spain.