Friday February 6th, 2009 at Lake Street Bar and Club in Kirkland, The Pacific Northwest's Favorite Reggae Powerhouse Trolls Cottage, along with Christina Wells, Kent Halverson and KJ Sawka's Trio: Dabouge, and Ari and Mesa.

Staxx Brothers May 9th!

The Staxx Brothers are playing Nectar Lounge on Friday May 9th. Also onstage is Ari Joshua Zucker with legendary Santana drummer Michael Shrieve.

News about AriSawkaDoria

AriSawkaDoria has been on a sabatical while the guys work on other projects. For upcoming shows visit TeamConcerts.com.

Ari recently recorded with Pearl Jam guitarist, Stone Gossard. Stone gave Ari a shout out by putting him on his new solo album.

Kevin was on Tour with Blake Lewis of American Idol doing some concerts and tv appearances to promote Blake's new album. Most notably they played the New Years Eve countdown in NYC Times Square Fox TV on live national tv.

Blake Lewis - Break Anotha. At Times Square On New Years Eve


Below is an email that Kevin sent out that shows an overview of what they did while on tour:

Blake Lewis and I will also be playin' some by our selves as a duo but most with the whole band ..
the whole band is ..
Blake Lewis (bshorty) vocals
Kevin (KJ) Sawka - drums / laptop / hype man / vocals
Kent Halvorsen - Keyboards / samples / vocals / trumpet
Jeremy Lightfoot - Bass guitar / vocals
Ryan (Johnny Nails) Leyva - Guitar / vocals

NOv. 30th - Nashville - WRWV radio show
Dec. 4th - Seattle KBKS radio kiss 106.1 Tacoma Dome jingle bell bash show !! w/ Timberland and One Republic
Dec. 6th - Good Morning America NYC
Dec. 6th - Clive Davis showcase
Dec. 7th - Regis and Kelly NYC
Dec. 7th - Minneapolis Radio show
Dec. 8th - KHFI Austin Radio show
Dec. 9th - KRBE Houston Radio show
Dec. 10th - Ellen - LA
Dec. 11th - Jimmy Kimmel (TBD)
Dec. 12th Columbus Ohio WNCI radio show
Dec. 13th Q100 Atlanta radio show
Dec. 14th - YIOO NYC radio show
Dec. 16th - Philly Q102 radio show ..
Dec. 17th - TRL (TBD)
Dec. 17th - FOX Morning show (TBD)
Dec. 30th - X games show on TV (not sure which channel)
Dec. 31st - NYC Times Square Fox TV (Live)

AriSawkaDoria Debut CD Release Party!!!!

AriSawkaDoria backed up American Idol contestant Blake Lewis during his hometown visit on May 11, 2007. Joining AriSawkaDoria was talented bassist Jeremy Lightfoot.

Ari and Kevin from ASD are in NYC this week

Word has it that Ari and Kevin from AriSawkaDoria are in NYC this week recording an album with Bluenote's Robert Glasper. Joining the session is bassist Jason Fraticelli.

Kevin KJ Sawka in his Basement

About Team Stadium

Jon Juan Francisco's Team Stadium is a networking representative and marketing and business consultant for Wax Orchard jazz trio AriSawkaDoria, and Soul United, Staxx Brothers, and Director Jason Boritz of Ultra Digital Films.



AriSawkaDoria, is a popular Seattle jazz band that had just signed a recording contract with the Wax Orchard indie label.

AriSawkaDoria was brought together by the Original drummer for Carlos Santana, who also produced AriSawkDoria's debut album, Michael Shrieve.

The AriSawkaDoria debut record release party will be in Seattle June 2 2007.

Talented musicians Ari Joshua, Kevin Sawka, and Joe Doria invite YOU to their upcoming AriSawkaDoria concerts and West Coast Tour in Spring and Summer 2007.




I'm also helping with an independent movie about electronic music for Ultra Digital Films and director of Music Video's for FALL FROM GRACE, Charlie Drown, and soon Jes (the vocalist from Motorcycle) fresh young Director Jason Boritz.

Jason Boritz had recently directed a short film: Inside Autism,
A documentary by Jason Boritz. Inside Autism had played at the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center in early 2007.

Expect to see more of Jason Boritz's work with Ultra Digital Films in 2007 and 2008. Also included in the production of the independent film documentary are Talented and www.imdb.com accredited film makers such as Shawn Anderson, Bruce Seymour Lee, Sound Engineer, and joining to help is talented 15 year music and media industry veteran Georgio Brown.