Sunday, November 2, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Scribble, Los Angeles
James Waterman & Joel Reed Mankey (with The In Spring Orchestra) With Guest Artists Yvette Holzwarth, Clarice Cast, Neel Agrawal, & more James Waterman (he/him) is a dynamic percussionist, composer, and songwriter based in Los Angeles whose work spans global traditions, concert stages, and film. His studies have taken him around the world, including fieldwork in Ghana where he trained with master musicians in gyil, Kete, and Ewe drumming, and he has performed at top venues like Carnegie Hall, Walt Disney Concert Hall, SFJAZZ, The Getty Villa, and The Blue Whale. As a composer, his work includes the original score for Jebel Banat (Festival de Cannes, Tribeca Film Festival), and premieres with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and Santa Clarita Youth Orchestra. He has collaborated with artists and ensembles including four larks, Alessandra Belloni, Volta Drum and Dance, and Bridge to Everywhere, and appeared on major platforms such as PBS SoCal, NBC’s Today Show , and dublab. His original music blends percussion traditions with electro-acoustic, classical, and global fusion influences, and his performance credits include work with Pulitzer Prize-winner Roger Reynolds and composer Angélica Negrón at the LA Philharmonic’s Noon to Midnight festival. Joel Reed Mankey (he/him) is a Los Angeles-based composer, multi-instrumentalist, and producer whose career spans continents, genres, and roles across the music industry. Equally at home on stage or behind the scenes, Joel has performed and worked internationally in countries including Bulgaria, Bali, Japan, Mexico, Germany, and Scotland, as well as at venues like the Fred Kavli Performing Arts Center in his hometown of Thousand Oaks, California. A true musical generalist, Joel has been a guest performer on Dancing with the Stars, taught Taiko drumming workshops in Berlin, recorded French horn for CBS’s Survivor, and mixed live shows for touring artists across North America and Europe. His deep versatility and global perspective inform a creative practice that bridges traditional and contemporary sounds with technical mastery. In Spring is a Celtic-inspired album by James Waterman and Joel Reed Mankey that blends traditional folk melodies with cinematic textures and transcultural instrumentation. While rooted in Irish and Scottish traditions, the album draws from a wide range of world music cultures, including Indian classical, Brazilian, West African, East Asian, and Americana, resulting in a rich and layered soundscape. Featuring intricate arrangements for violin, flutes, harp, hand percussion, and voice, In Spring evokes the emotional arc of seasonal renewal, offering a listening experience that is both expansive and deeply intimate. James Waterman: @jameswatermanmusic Joel Reed Mankey: @joelreedmankey Featured Guest Artists: Clarice Cast is a multi percussionist from São Paulo, Brazil. She earned a Bachelor of Music from Northern Illinois University and a Masters in World Percussion from the California Institute of the Arts. She is an active performer, recording artist, and composer in Los Angeles, CA and is a regular clinician at colleges, universities, and percussion festivals, including the Percussive Arts Society International Convention in 2014. You can hear Clarice on the sophisticated Lado B Brazilian Project’s debut album, which was nominated for the 58th Grammy Awards in the category of “Best Arrangement Instruments & Vocals." She is heavily influenced by her native Brazilian culture, and it has been her driving force to learn, perform, write, and teach these styles. Clarice proudly endorses Contemporânea Musical, Tycoon Percussion Instruments, TRX Cymbals, and Ahead Armor Cases. Instagram: @claricecast Neel Agrawal is a multi-percussionist whose versatile sound draws from jazz, world fusion, Indian and Western classical, rock, electronic, and film music. Recognized by LA Mayor Eric Garcetti for his contributions to South Asian arts, education, and advocacy, he is also a 2021 COLA Individual Artist Fellow and former Harvard Library Innovation Lab fellow for his research on African Drumming Laws. His performances span collaborations with artists such as L. Shankar, Lord Huron, Young the Giant, Rajib Karmakar, and James Waterman, as well as tours sponsored by the U.S. State Department. A former section leader of the Michigan State University Drumline and two-time national tenor drumming award recipient, Neel continues to honor the teachings of his gurus Navjot Sandhu, Aloke Dutta, Ken Dalluge, William Winant, Jon Weber, and Todd Ohme. Instagram: @neel.k.agrawal Yvette Cornelia Holzwarth is a versatile violinist, vocalist, and composer who transcends her Western classical roots to explore Eastern European, Arabic, Norwegian hardanger fiddle, Americana, popular, jazz, experimental, and improvised music. She has performed and recorded with artists such as Ariana Grande, Kamasi Washington, Backstreet Boys, Sabrina Carpenter, Van Dyke Parks, and Gaby Moreno, with tours spanning the USA, Canada, Europe, the Middle East, Central America, and Japan. With guitarist Miroslav Tadić, her duo project blends Balkan folk and improvisation on the acclaimed album LUKA . She is a founding member of Desert Quill Quartet and Bridge to Everywhere, and releases original music under Yvette Cornelia, including her album What Lies Ahead (2018). Based in Los Angeles, she contributes to Film/TV scores, offers professional remote recording, and composes for interdisciplinary projects with theater companies such as Four Larks. She also wrote and illustrated the children’s book The Chinese Zoodiac Band , curated the Hear Sunday series with Clockshop, and holds an MFA from CalArts and a BA from UCLA, currently serving on faculty at Mount Saint Mary’s University. Instagram: @yvette.cornelia Jett Kwong Jett Kwong's combination of the Chinese guzheng, vocal melodies, lush strings, and electronic production transports the listener into dreamy soundscapes deemed a "balm to the spirit" (NPR). A poetic melding of languages and cultures largely inspired by her mixed heritage is bolstered by orchestral arrangements and an alt-pop sensibility. Jett was the recipient of the 2019 Kollaboration award and her live performance of “Ficelle” was featured on NPR’s top shelf in May 2024. Instagram: @jettkwong Kate Outterbridge & Friends [OPENING ACT] Kate Outterbridge (she/her) is a Los Angeles-based violinist, educator, and advocate for contemporary music whose work spans film and television recordings ( Avatar: The Way of Water , Star Trek: Lower Decks ), performances with Wild Up on projects like Ragnar Kjartansson’s Bliss and the Grammy-nominated Julius Eastman Vol. 2: Joy Boy , and collaborations with artists from The National and Sigur Rós to Taylor Mac. She has appeared at venues including Walt Disney Concert Hall, REDCAT, and the Hollywood Bowl, and her teaching blends Suzuki pedagogy, Creative Ability Development, and mindfulness through roles with Global Arts Los Angeles, YOLA, and Community Music Works. While not playing her violin, Kate enjoys hiking, Irish sessions, and stand-up comedy. Kate will be joined by a local group of Irish trad musicians who play in sessions together around Los Angeles. Together they love discovering and enjoying tunes, and jamming into the wee hours of the night! Kate Outterbridge: @katerbridge Emma Ware: @emma.ware Obin Sturm Anaís Azul (w/ Band) [CLOSING ACT] Anaís Azul (they/them) is a Peruvian-born, California-raised singer-songwriter and educator. Dubbed “the Peruvian Björk” (Bay Times), they produced their debut album Simp’ashani: Canciones Trenzadas (2024) as a Fulbright grantee, blending Quechua, English, and Spanish into experimental Andean songs & soundscapes with vocal looping. They've toured as a performer-educator across Perú, Mexico, Germany, France, and Japan, and performed at Mountain View, California’s first-ever Pride. Anaís is committed to learning from the resistance of colonized people to change the course of history one song at a time. Anaís Azul: @anaisazul Emilia Moscoso Borja: @emidmb June Youngblood: @juney_tunes_ 7:30 doors 15$ Advance tickets available here !