Mads Tolling & Matt Eakle Band

Mads Tolling is an internationally renowned violinist and composer originally from Copenhagen, Denmark, now living in San Francisco. As a former nine-year member of both bassist Stanley Clarke’s band and the celebrated Turtle Island Quartet, Tolling has won two Grammy Awards and was nominated for a third Grammy in 2015. He was also the 2016 winner of the DownBeat Critics Poll Rising Star Violin Award. Tolling has performed with Chick Corea, Ramsey Lewis, Kenny Barron, Paquito D’Rivera, Leo Kottke, and Sergio & Odair Assad. 

Matt Eakle and his flute have been blowing crowds out of their chairs and onto their feet since 1989 as the first wind player to share the front line with David Grisman in the David Grisman Quintet (DGQ). He is featured on 14 albums with the DGQ, Jerry Garcia, Enrique Coria, and as the leader of his own jazz trio on the album, Flute Jazz. On these recordings, Eakle takes people’s preconceived notions of what a flute can do and turns them inside out.