FREE Family Music Matinee with Healdsburg Jazz

Proclaimed by long-time music scribe, David Becker (SF Examiner/AXS.com), as the San Francisco Bay Area’s #1 Jazz Guitarist, Multiple-Award winning guitarist Terrence Brewer is a first-call and in-demand bandleader, record producer, concert performer, studio musician, and one of the San Francisco Bay area’s foremost and sought after music educators. Brewer has produced and released 11 nationally acclaimed albums on the record label Strong Brew Music he started in 2006. Combined with being an in-demand record producer for himself and others, Brewer has led his various groups in nearly 2800 performances in the last 10 years; performing to sold-out crowds at the 62nd and 52nd Annual Monterey Jazz Festival, the world-famous Yoshi’s at Jack London Square, Yoshi’s San Francisco, SFJAZZ Jazz Festival, and countless other venues. In addition to headlining his own shows, Brewer has shared the stage with vocalist/pianist Diana Krall, Michael McDonald (Doobie Brothers), Gerald Albright, has worked with Mary Wilson (The Supremes), Darlene Love, Taylor Eigsti, Jay Lane, Dr. Anthony Brown, Pete Escovedo, and has studied with the likes of Charlie Hunter, Duck Baker, Tom Patitucci, Mark Levine. When Brewer is not touring regionally and nationally, he is on the faculty for the San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s Root, Jazz and American Music Pre-College program and he finds time to instruct/facilitate master classes, clinics, workshops, and lectures for the likes of Stanford Jazz Workshop, SFJAZZ, The Jazz School, Jazz Camp West, Blue Bear School of Music, Lafayette Summer Music Workshop, CMEA (California Music Educators Association), and presenting at colleges, high schools, middles schools, and public libraries throughout California including Los Medanos College, Chabot College, Santa Rosa Jr College, San Francisco University High School, Edna Brewer Middle School, the Nueva School, and many others

Winner — SF Weekly Music Award — Best Jazz Artist
Winner — Oakland Chamber of Commerce Artist of the Year
Winner — Bay Area Blues Society “Best Jazz Group”