Event Press Releases

2024-2025 Press Releases

More events are being scheduled for 2024 and 2025 will appear here soon!

• 2/19/2025. Two free introductory in person music workshops with Matthew Montfort at the Cloverdale Arts Alliance in Northern Sonoma County. At 7 PM, an introductory beginning workshop helps aspiring guitarists get started on the right track with good practice habits. At 7:45 PM, an intermediate guitar workshop explores exercises, music notation, theory, and popular repertoire.
• 11/6/2024. A series of six guitar weekly classes with Matthew Montfort starts on November 6, 2024, at the Cloverdale Arts Alliance in Sonoma County. The intermediate workshop explores exercises, music notation, theory, and popular repertoire, and includes three ongoing students. The beginning workshop helps aspiring guitarists get started on the right track with good practice habits. The cost is $150 for six weeks.
• 10/16/24. Two free introductory in person music workshops with Matthew Montfort at the Cloverdale Arts Alliance in Northern Sonoma County. At 7 PM, an introductory beginning workshop helps aspiring guitarists get started on the right track with good practice habits. At 7:45 PM, an intermediate guitar workshop explores exercises, music notation, theory, and popular repertoire.
• 6/12/24 & 6/19/24. Matthew Montfort continues a series of free introductory in person music workshops at the Cloverdale Arts Alliance in Northern Sonoma County covering world rhythms and all styles of guitar with offerings for beginners, intermediate, and advanced players.
• 5/10/24. Global Guitar Summit at S.F. International Arts Festival
• 4/14/24. Ancient Future Guitar and Pipa Duet with Matthew Montfort and Shenshen Zhang performs at Old St. Hilary's Landmark in Tiburon, CA.
• 2/21/24, 2/28/24, and 3/6/24. Matthew Montfort is offering a series of free introductory in person music workshops at the Cloverdale Arts Alliance in Northern Sonoma County covering world rhythms and all styles of guitar with offerings for beginners, intermediate, and advanced players. For those not in Northern California, a separate set of workshops will be held online.

2020-2023 Press Releases

Due to coronavirus concerns, all of Ancient Future's planned and previously announced in person concerts in 2020 were cancelled or postponed. In person concerts were booked starting in Spring 2021, but many were cancelled or postponed due to coronavirus waves, and the rest were at festivals that had their own press departments.

• 2/12/21 and 6/12/21. Matthew Montfort inaugurates a new series of Alternate Reality Concerts from the Ancient Future with a 30 minute concert live online on his birthday, February 12, 2021. The June 12, 2021, concert featuring Ancient Future with scalloped fretboard guitar pioneer Matthew Montfort, tabla maestro Aditya Kalyanpur, and master keyboardist Frank Martin is the first Ancient Future performance since their 40th anniversary season ended in late 2019.
• 7/8/20 through 8/12/20. Matthew Montfort returns to teach a virtual world beat workshop at Blue Bear School of Music Online. His Got Rhythm World Beat Workshop utilizes African polyrhythms, Balinese kotèkan, and Indian tala to highlight the major types of rhythmic organization used in most of the world's music. Melodic aspects of the traditions will also be explored.

2019 Press Releases

• 7/28/19 through 9/1/19. Ancient Future will return to perform at Festival Mozaic (July 28) and Music at the Mine (Sept. 1), two beloved outdoor music festivals, for the first time in over a decade.
• 5/26/19. Ancient Future 'World Without Walls' Reunion at San Francisco International Arts Festival, May 26 at 5 PM,Gallery 308, Fort Mason, San Francisco.
• 2/20/19 through 5/11/19. Scalloped fretboard guitar pioneer Matthew Montfort and friends performs free concert programs at Sonoma County libraries: February 20 at 7 PM, Ancient Future History with Mindia Devi Klein on flute and Mariah Parker on santur, Petaluma Regional Library; March 9 at 3 PM, Global Guitar Summit with Teja Gerken, Guerneville Regional Library; March 30 at 2 PM, Ancient Future World Without Walls Trio with Doug McKeehan on keys and Ian Dogole on percussion, Northwest Santa Rosa Library; April 20 at 2 PM, Guitar and Arabic Percussion Duet with Antoine Lammam, Central Santa Rosa Library; April 27 at 2 PM, Guitar and Pipa Duet with Shenshen Zhang, Sonoma Valley Regional Library; May 4 at 2 PM, Guitar and Tabla Duet with Vishal Nagar, Rohnert Park-Cotati Library; and May 11 at 2 PM, Ancient Future World Without Walls Trio, Healdsburg Regional Library.
• 2/12/19. Ancient Future 40th Anniversary Concert and Bandleader Birthday Party, February 12, at 8 PM, at the Freight and Salvage, Berkeley, California.

2018 Press Releases

• 9/8/18. Ancient Future featuring world guitar pioneer Matthew Montfort, Arabic violin virtuoso Georges Lammam, and Indian tabla master Vishal Nagar performs on Saturday, September 8, at 2 PM, at the Winchester Cultural Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.
• 7/28/18. Ancient Future featuring world guitar pioneer Matthew Montfort, Arabic violin virtuoso Georges Lammam, Arabic percussion master Antoine Lammam, and keyboardist extraordinaire Doug McKeehan performs Saturday, July 28, at 8 PM, at the Throckmorton Theatre in Mill Valley, California.
• 5/19/18. Ancient Future performs a free educational concert at the Sonoma Valley Regional Library on Saturday, May 19, at 2 PM.
• 4/28/18. Ancient Future performs as a duet featuring scalloped fretboard guitar pioneer Matthew Montfort and Uzbek percussion master Abbos Kosimov on Saturday, April 28, at 8 PM, at Watermelon Music in Davis, California.

2017 Press Releases

• 9/6/17 through 1/6/2018. Ancient Future performs free educational concerts on 9/6/17 at Petaluma Regional Library; 9/16/17 at Northwest Santa Rosa Library; 11/8/17 at Healdsburg Regional Library; 11/8/17 at Windsor Regional Library; 12/2/17 at Sonoma Valley Regional Library; and 1/6/18 at Guerneville Regional Library.
• 6/1/17 through 6/4/17. The 2017 San Francisco International Arts Festival features three performance dates showcasing Ancient-Future.Com Recording Artists.
• 2/11/17. Ancient Future 38th anniversary concert featuring scalloped fretboard guitar pioneer Matthew Montfort, tabla virtuoso Vishal Nagar, and pianist/santurist Mariah Parker, Saturday, February 11, 8 PM, Trinity Chapel, Berkeley, California.

2016 Press Releases

• 7/31/16 through 8/12/16.The Global Guitar Summit features Indian nylon string guitarist Konarak Reddy, American scalloped fretboard guitar pioneer Matthew Montfort, and German fingerstyle guitarist Teja Gerken on Sunday July 31 at 6:30 PM at the Fenix, San Rafael; Thursday, August 4 at 7:30 PM at Don Quixote's, Felton; Saturday August 6 at 6:30 PM at Gryphon Stringed Instruments, Palo Alto; and Friday, August 12 at 8 PM at Sebastopol Community Center Annex, Sebastopol.
• 4/9/16. Ancient Future featuring scalloped fretboard guitar pioneer Matthew Montfort, tabla virtuoso Vishal Nagar, and pianist/santurist Mariah Parker on Saturday, April 9, 8 PM, at the Occidental Center for the Arts, 3850 Doris Murphy Ct., Occidental, California.
• 4/3/16. Ancient Future featuring scalloped fretboard guitar pioneer Matthew Montfort and tabla virtuoso Vishal Nagar on Sunday, April 3, at 8 pm, at the Willits Community Theatre, located at 37 West Van Lane in Willits, California.
• 1/23/16 through 1/24/16. Ancient Future featuring scalloped fretboard guitar pioneer Matthew Montfort with accompaniment by tabla virtuoso Vishal Nagar plus special guest Mariah Parker on Saturday, January 23, at 6 PM at The Mazza Castle in Pacifica, California, and Sunday, January 24, 2016, from 6:30 to 9:30 PM at the Fenix in San Rafael, California. The concerts will be the debut performances on Matthew Montfort's new custom scalloped fretboard guitar.

2015 Press Releases

• 8/22/15 through 8/30/15. Ancient Future will perform a dinner concert August 30 at Gaia's Garden vegetarian restaurant in Santa Rosa, and two educational concerts at Sonoma County libraries on August 22. The concerts feature scalloped fretboard guitar pioneer Matthew Montfort and Indian tabla virtuoso Vishal Nagar.
• 4/28/15 through 5/2/15. Ancient Future will tour the Pacific Northwest this spring with shows featuring scalloped fretboard guitar pioneer Matthew Montfort, tabla virtuoso Vishal Nagar, and special guest bassist Jason Everett. They will perform April 28 at the Royal Room, Seattle, Washington; April 29 at Vashon Theatre, Vashon, Washington; April 30, at The Conway Muse, Conway, Washington; and May 2 at the Moscow Renaissance Fair, Moscow, Idaho.
• 4/19/15. Matthew Montfort, Mindia Devi Klein, and Benjy Wertheimer, the original lineup of the pioneering world fusion music group Ancient Future, will perform together for the first time this century at Throckmorton Theatre, located at 142 Throckmorton Avenue in Mill Valley, California.

2014 Press Releases

• 8/23/2014. Ancient Future will perform a guitar and Indian tabla program at the Stone Soup Music Festival on Saturday, August 23, 2014, at 4 p.m. The show features scalloped fretboard guitar pioneer Matthew Montfort accompanied by renowned Indian tabla virtuoso, Aditya Kalyanpur. Their performance at the Stone Soup Music Festival will be held at Ramona Garden Park at the corner of 9th and Ramona Streets in Grover Beach, California.
• 7/25/14 through 7/27/14. Ancient Future will perform two different concert programs in the Reno/Tahoe area featuring scalloped fretboard guitar pioneer Matthew Montfort, hammered dulcimerist Mariah Parker, and tabla virtuoso Vishal Nagar: July 25 at the Sierra Nevada Guitar Festival at St. Patrick's Episcopal Church, in Incline Village, Nevada, and July 27 at the Reno Artown Festival at the Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center at the University of Nevada, Reno.
• 1/10/14 through 1/12/14. Ancient Future featuring scalloped fretboard guitar pioneer Matthew Montfort with accompaniment by tabla virtuoso Vishal Nagar: January 10 at the Sunflower Center in Petaluma, January 11 at the Trinity Chamber Concerts series at the Trinity Chapel in Berkeley, and January 12 at Don Quixote's International Music Hall in Felton.

2013 Press Releases

• 10/16/13. Ancient Future 'World Without Walls' Reunion at the Freight and Salvage. Also streams worldwide at ConcertWindow.com.
• 7/13/13. A Meeting of Acoustic Minds at The Old Princeton Landing Featuring Matthew Montfort, Mark Kostrzewa and Steve Baughman
• 6/22/13. World Rhythm Workshop at Gryphon Strings in Palo Alto.
• 6/21/13. Ancient Future Duet at Garden Gate in Berkeley.
• 5/11/13. Ancient Future Duet at Halanda Studio in San Jose.
• 3/23/13. Ancient Future Duet at the Willits Community Theatre.
• 1/20/13. Mariah Parker's Indo Latin Jazz Sextet at the Freight and Salvage. Live Recording and Birthday Celebration.
  

2012 Press Releases

• 2/29/12. Sympathetic Strings & Resonant Reeds: A Benefit Concert for Matthew Montfort featuring Alex de Grassi, Paul McCandless, Jon Mendle, Mariah Parker's Indo Latin Jazz Ensemble, and Teja Gerken and Ronnie Ray Padilla

2011 Press Releases

• 6/7/11. Ancient Future 'World Without Walls' Reunion at Yoshi's in San Francisco.
• 3/20/11. Ancient Future Duet at the Henry Miller Libary in Big Sur.
• 3/18/11. Welcome Spring with a World Music Workshop at Esalen in Big Sur.
• 1/29/11. Ancient Future Celtic Raga Duet at Village Homes Community Center in Davis.

2010 Press Releases

• 11/3/10. The Sonoma County Libraries Present Ancient Future In Concert.
• 10/23/10. Trinity Chamber Concerts Presents Ancient Future in World Chamber Music Concert.
• 10/21/10. Natural Resonance Concert Series Presents Ancient Future Duet in House Concert.
• 9/25/10. The Sonoma County Libraries Present Ancient Future In Concert.
• 9/15/10. World Fusion Jam at Peña Pachamama with Dinner Percussion Playshop Party.
• 8/18/10. World Music for Guitar Performance by Matthew Montfort at Peña Pachamama with Pre-Show Dinner Percussion Playshop Party.
• 8/15/10. A Tryst with Junnoon: 63rd Indian Independence Day Celebrations with Live Indian Fusion Music by Ancient Future.
• 7/ 28/10 through 8/210. The first Ancient Future tour to Southern California since 1998 includes public concerts July 28 at the Waterfront Concert Theater in Marina del Rey, July 31 at the Fret House in Covina, August 1 for the Friends of Swanirvar Los Angeles Benefit at the Folly Bowl in Altadena, and August 2 at Yoga Soup in Santa Barbara.
• 6/26/10. Friends of the Petaluma Library Presents Ancient Future In Concert.
• 6/25/10. Ancient Future Duet Performs Free Concert in Downtown Davis.
• 6/5/10. San Francisco Guitar Summit featuring Matthew Montfort, Teja Gerken, and the San Francisco Guitar Quartet.
• 4/30/10. Matthew Montfort Performs Spanish Serenades, Meditative Maqams, and Reflective Ragas.
• 4/23/10. Spread Your Wings & Fly with Us: A Musical Journey Featuring Montana Skies, Matthew Montfort of Ancient Future, and North African Music by AZA.
• 4/19/10. Mariah Parker's Indo Latin Jazz Quintet Returns to Yoshi's.
• 4/15/10. Mariah Parker and Her Indo Latin Jazz Quintet In Concert at Kuumbwa Jazz in Santa Cruz.
• 3/27/10. TimnaTal Music Presents Ancient Future In Concert in Davis.
• 3/6/10. Ancient Future Duet Performs Dinner Concert Cuisine by In the Mood for Food.
• 2/28/10. World Fusion Mini-Fest Featuring Matthew Montfort (Scalloped Fretboard Guitar and Glissentar Pioneer), Four Shillings Short (Celtic/Folk/World Music Duo), and Walter Strauss & Mamadou Sidibe (Finger-Style Guitar and West African Hunter's Harp).
• 1/17/10. Performance at Peña Pachamama by Matthew Montfort San Francisco Soiree for Seven Serenades for Scalloped Fretboard Guitar by Matthew Montfort.
• 1/1/10. Welcome the New Year with a World Music Workshop at Esalen, Big Sur.

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