Soundswell Live Music Series: Featuring Moshe Vilozny + Cement Ship
Please join us for another musical Saturday at the Branciforte Branch Library. This live music show will take place in the parking lot behind the library. Moshe and Tim will be performing as part of our Soundswell Live Music Series.
Moshe was born in Portland Oregon, and raised in Santa Cruz California. I come from a musical household and I first fell in love with music as a child singing songs in Hebrew with my family. I studied piano and saxophone in elementary school and then switched to guitar in middle school when I got my hands on my dad's old guitar. That's when I started writing, singing, and recording my own songs.
Growing up I spent summers with family in Israel where I was exposed to many different types of music. After graduating from high school, I took a year to travel throughout Latin America to study Spanish and music. All of this exposure to world music inspired me to form the band
Universal Language while studying music at Cabrillo College. I released my first full-length studio album "Revolución" as part of my capstone project as a Language Studies major at UCSC. The album features my original songs in English, Spanish, and Hebrew.
In 2016 I released my 2nd album of originals"Lost & Found". This album is still in rotation on several prominent west coast radio stations including KPIG, and it's release secured me a performance at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in 2019.
When COVID arrived in 2020, I took advantage of the pause in live music by going back to school and receiving my teaching credential. I am currently working as the music educator at Gault School in Santa Cruz.
- Date:
- Saturday, September 21, 2024
- Time:
- 1:00pm - 3:00pm
- Location:
- Community Room
- Branch:
- Branciforte
- Audience:
- All Ages
- Categories:
- All Ages Summer Reading
Cement Ship is an original band from the Monterey Bay area, formed in Santa Cruz, California in 2017 by singer/songwriter Tim Brady shortly before its namesake, the SS Palo Alto, was torn apart by heavy storm waves.
The acoustic guitar style, singing tone and original songs from Tim seem to fit a wide array of crowds and genres, but maintains a natural and stripped down approach for the sound. Honest and raw, sweet and smoky, dynamic like the sea. The whole band includes Kai Hoornbeck on bass, Ryan Navaroli on sax, and Lars Anderson on cello.
Cement Ship has performed at such places as the Capitola Art and Wine Festival twice, Santa Cruz Music Festival twice, Pleasure Point Street Fair, The Catalyst Atrium, Moe’s Alley, Abbott Square, Michaels on Main and most of the venues in Santa Cruz along with spots in San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, and Honolulu. Cement Ship toured in the U.K. in 2019 as a duo, and have created many benefits and fundraisers over the years, most notably freeing 44 prisoners in Malawi, Africa who had not received adequate justice.
The name comes from a Monterey Bay landmark, the SS Palo Alto. Built too late to be used in WW1, the 100 year old ship was grounded at Seacliff State Beach in Aptos and now serves as an artificial reef for marine life, including great white sharks.
Music categories include: Singer/songwriter, folk, indie, acoustic rock, soul, americana.