“Santana meets the Gipsy Kings”

We are very excited to feature reknowed violinist and hapist CARLOS REYES with special guests TONY LINDSAY (world-reknowed vocalist of Santana) and JANICE MAXIE REID (The Bay Area’s Queen of Soul).

Born in Paraguay and performing publicly since the age of five, Carlos Reyes has spent a lifetime redefining what the Paraguayan harp and violin can do. A child prodigy who began studying violin at three, he soon took up the traditional 36-string Paraguayan harp, turning an early challenge from his father into a lifelong musical path.

By his teens, Carlos had already debuted with the Oakland Symphony and Oakland Youth Symphony and was working in professional recording studios. He went on to build an international career as a recording artist, producer, and multi-instrumentalist.

His debut album The Beauty of It All spent more than 15 weeks in Billboard’s Top Ten Contemporary Jazz charts, launching a career that has taken him across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Along the way he has performed and recorded with artists including Steve Miller, Willie Nelson, Chuck Mangione, and The Doobie Brothers.

Blending Latin, jazz, rock, and classical influences, Carlos brings a bold and innovative voice to the harp, expanding the instrument’s possibilities both acoustically and electronically. Whether performing solo or with a full ensemble, his performances combine virtuosity, passion, and a deeply expressive musical spirit.

ABOUT TONY LINDSAY

After 25 years as the lead vocalist for Santana, Tony Lindsay has garnered 11 Grammy awards, traveled on several world tours and recorded on seven CDs: Milagro (1992), Supernatural (1999), Shaman (2002), Ceremony (2003) and Food for Thought (2004), Ultimate Santana (2007) and Multi-Dimensional Warrior (2008). Their current tour involves Santana’s First Rock Residency: an exclusive two-year deal for 36 shows with AEG at the Las Vegas Hard Rock Hotel and Casino’s concert hall “The Joint,” which began May 27, 2009. When not on tour with Santana, Lindsay performs at various local venues and festivals. Tony has become a regular performer for The Golden State Warriors(NBA), The Santa Cruz Warriors (G league NBA), The San Francisco 49ers, The San Francisco Giants and The San Jose Sharks, singing The National Anthem.

Tony Lindsay also has quite an impressive curriculum vitae as songwriter: “Don’t Be Late For Love” (The Whispers), “Look What We’d Have If You Were Mine” (Tevin Campbell), “Can’t Get Over Your Love” (Howard Hewitt), “Just Because” (Nikita Germain) and various tracks for Johnny Gill, Howard Hewitt, Mica Paris, Shanice, Diatra Hicks, Jay Spencer and Diana Ross; background vocalist: “Everyday People” (Aretha Franklin), “Emotionally Yours” (O’Jays), “Glad To Be Alive” (Teddy Pendegrass), “Heaven and Earth” (Al Jarreau), “Passion,” “Tango In Paris” (Regina Bell), “It’s Supposed To Be Fun” (Lou Rawls), “People Make The World Go Round” (Marc Dorsey from the Spike Lee movie soundtrack Crooklyn), “Many Rivers To Cross” (Oletta Adams from the movie soundtrack Jason’s Lyric), “Voyages” (Elliot Lewis), “Junction Seven” (Steve Winwood), “New World Order” (Curtis Mayfield), VH1 1997 Video Honors Award (Stevie Wonder, Steve Winwood, Chaka Khan, James Taylor, The Williams Brothers and George Michael) and Patti Austin & James Ingram under the direction of Quincy Jones and 18-piece orchestra, along with Jerry Hey for the Dick Clark Productions and the Lexus Corporation; jingle writer: various Taco Bell commercials, Gain, Northern California Chevrolet Dealers, Hidden Valley Ranch Dressing, El Pollo Loco, Hot Wheels, Long John Silvers, Pine-Sol, Jelly Belly, Wendy’s, Mazda (national) Signed, Sealed, Delivered, Old Milwaukee Beer (national), Armor All, Dreyers Grand Ice Cream, Matchbox and St Joseph Aspirin; and solo recording artist: Different Moods (1995), The Message is Love (1997) and his current self-titled project Tony Lindsay (2005).

In 1980, Lindsay arrived in the San Francisco Bay Area from Kingston, New York, and continues to perform with the first band he formed Spangalang, who have opened for Curtis Mayfield, Tower of Power, Gerald Albright, Jr. Walker and the Average White Band. He was one of four singers who traveled with “Dancing with the Stars,” the road tour version of the popular TV Dance show, which began in 2005. Lindsay joined Dancing with the Stars on three of the first four seasons as well as touring with Santana. Other bands that Tony helped form and still performs with are The Soul Soldiers, Black Magic, and the Ray Charles Project.

In 2015, Carlos Santana decided to change personnel in his band and set the wheels in motion for Tony to start on his 5th and current solo CD “Something Beautiful”. Previous solo efforts are” Different Moods” in 1995, “The Message is Love” in 1997, “Tony Lindsay” in 2005, and “Memoirs” in 2014.

ABOUT JANICE MAXIE REID

Janice started playing piano at four. Was performing professionally at thirteen. By the time most musicians are just getting started, Janice had already been building her craft for a decade.

Decades later, she is still the most complete musician in the room.

Trained at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music and the San Francisco Conservatory, Janice performs across gospel, jazz, blues, R&B, classical, and sou —not as a generalist, but as a musician who has spent a lifetime going deep in all of it. Her signature: she plays left-hand keyboard bass, right-hand melody, and sings a four-octave vocal line simultaneously. Carlos Santana has one word for it: anointed.

She has performed at the Hollywood Bowl, Davies Symphony Hall, the Berkeley Greek Theater, and the Monterey Jazz Festival. She has shared stages with Sting, Carlos Santana, Narada Michael Walden, and George Duke. She has played festivals in Detroit, Chicago, and San Jose — and internationally in Adelaide, Australia and São Paulo, Brazil. She has performed for U.S. Congresswomen, former mayors, and heads of state. She played the U.S. National Anthem at the Oakland Coliseum and solo piano at Clint Eastwood’s private tournament in Carmel.

And all of that is only half the story.

For over twenty-five years, Janice has taught voice and piano at the California Jazz Conservatory in Berkeley. Before that, she spent two decades directing music programs at St. Mary’s College High School — producing full-scale musicals and developing students who went on to change the industry. Victoria Theodore. Ledisi. Ryan Coogler. They did not arrive as finished artists. They arrived as students. She helped build them.

She also performs weekly at memory care and retirement facilities across the Bay Area—because she believes that music at this level belongs everywhere, not just on ticketed stages.

She has released four solo albums. Been featured in the San Francisco Chronicle. Interviewed on Australian Broadcasting Company radio. And she is still performing, still teaching, still recording — available to bring fifty years of earned mastery to your event, your studio, or your musical journey. Your mastery starts here.