GRoovesession epk

FREE AS YOU WANNA BE - 2018

Booking Contact:
groovesessionman@yahoo.com

Biography 

GrooveSession is always a good time. This Southern California band brings a Movin’ Groovin’ high energy Rock Show with flavors of Jam Rock, Funk, Jazz, and Reggae. 

Led by singing drummer Manny Sanchez, along with his younger brother Ronnie Sanchez playing bass guitar and completing an unrivaled rhythm section. Natural harmonies in life as well as voice you can't help but move once the GROOVE is in SESSION. 

Brothers Sanchez have now connected with true talents and creative energies in Kyle Merrill on guitar and vocals and Alex Mello on keyboards.  Both Kyle and Alex are respected musicians and road warriors from the band Brothers Gow. The four of them now cosmically have come together as one band joining forces on stage as Songwriters, Jammers, Rockers and Space Funkers United. 

They have opened up for Los Lobos, Little Feat, Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, George Clinton’s P-Funk Allstars, New Mastersounds, The Funky Meters, Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk, Pimps of Joytime, Ozomatli, Railroad Earth, Tea Leaf Green, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Rebirth Brass Band just to name a few. 

“The show was powerful, and it brought out all I love about live music . . . including, of course, lots of really groovy people.” Johnny Shows

 “This is a ‘coming of age’ of a great band who have ‘earned their stripes’ the ol’ fashion way, touring and bringing their music and amazing talent to the people. Now, the new album by GrooveSession speaks the truth about love, life, and living the good times!” John Avila, Musician/Producer

GROOVESESSION IS:

Vocals, Drums / Manny Sanchez

Vocals, Bass / Ronnie Sanchez

Vocals, Guitar / Kyle Merrill

Keyboards/Alex Mello

GrooveSession Sponsors

Manny Sanchez - Taye Drums, Aquarian Drumheads, Drum Wallet, Grip Peddler

Ronnie Sanchez - Mesa/Boogie Amplifiers, EMG Pickups,MXR pedals

Alex Mello- Hammond, Moog, Sequential, Onstage, Gaffer Power

GrooveSession uses QSC Speakers and Blue Microphones

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Press

PODCAST: 1/17/18 GrooveSession on NPR w/ David Fleming celebrating KVC-Arts 200th Show

PODCAST: 2/24/16 GrooveSession on NPR w/ David Fleming celebrating KVC-Arts 100th Show

“They just don’t make grooves like these anymore. The hard-hitting funk of George Clinton, those New Orleans second-line rhythms of The Meters, that earthy, jazzy, country shuffle of Little Feat. Even the get-off-your-butt-and-move early-’90s groove laid down by the Spin Doctors. Relics of the past shelved among the archives to make way for thin, machine-driven impersonations that pass for pop rhythms and hip-hop drum beats these days. GrooveSession missed that memo on purpose. “We love the ’60s and ’70s and all that music that was going on at that time,” Manny Sanchez says. “There’s a song called ‘Grows Down Low,’ ” Sanchez says. “When we started to write that song, all three of us, when it came to tempo, sort of homed in on the strut of it. It felt like it was as if Little Feat and The Meters got together and started jamming.”“It really is a blessing,” Sanchez says of playing with his brother and longtime friend."” - JEFF HARRELL - SOUTH BEND TRIBUNE