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About the Venue
Tuolumne Trails is an ADA accessible camp for individuals who have a special need or disability. Since its inception in 2008, Tuolumne Trails has strived to provide all-accessible programs for children and adults of all needs and their families.
Concerts for a Cause is the third annual music series at Tuolumne Trails' all-accessible amphitheater. With a top-of-the-line sound system and accessible seating, this brand-new performance space will allow talented performers and guests of all needs to enjoy the gift of music for years to come, making music more accessible to all.
All proceeds from the Concerts for a Cause music series will benefit Tuolumne Trail's summer programs to keep moving forward with their mission: to create inclusion and safe recreation for all in the outdoors.
About the Artists
Renaissance is a six-piece band from Los Angeles. Their members include:
Denny Love
Denny Love is an established, dynamic singer-songwriter from New York! He has been featured as a songwriter with many pop artists and on several television shows such as The Bachelor and Queer Eye. As a performer, he has played much of the New York City and Los Angeles markets with his electro-pop duo Wolf and Love. Denny's talents span the genres with a major focus on R&B, Pop and Soul. His high-energy showmanship and high-in-the-sky range can blow your mind!
Billye Johnstone
Billye Johnstone was raised in a family of musicians and has been singing all her life. She has toured and performed with legendary artists Ray Conniff and Engelbert Humperdinck, Gospel Greats Sandi Patty and Larnelle Harris, as well as written and produced several albums of her own original music, which has given her a busy touring schedule for many years. Billye’s
experience in barbershop quartets, musical theater, worship music, and rock, pop, and soul bands, allows her to move effortlessly through all genres of music. Much of this has happened simultaneously with a career in the business side of music, marketing and promoting the biggest names in all of popular music. Billye currently sings in Wartime Radio Revue (a WWII era swing big band fronted by an Andrews Sisters style trio), Renaissance Event Band, and lends background vocals to Los Angeles area artists. Billye is also the choir director and worship leader at Emmanuel Church in Burbank, CA.
Ahmet Turkmenoglu
Sezin Ahmet Turkmenoglu is a Turkish bass player/composer/educator living in Los Angeles. After moving to Los Angeles in 2012, he got to work with some of the best musicians around such as Alan Pasqua, Stanley Jordan, Bruce Forman, Otmaro Ruiz, Jimmy Branly, Frank Potenza, Nick Mancini, Michael Carvin, Michael Orland, Will Brahm, Kenwood Dennard, and Steve Hass. Turkmenoglu has recorded with a large number of artists as a bass player and producer both in Turkey and Los Angeles. He holds a doctorate degree in Jazz Performance from the University of Southern California.
Dave Johnstone
Dave Johnstone is an in-demand live and session drummer based in Los Angeles. He currently serves as music director and drummer for living legend Ellis Hall, and music director, recording, and touring drummer for Aubrey Logan. He has worked Liza Minnelli, Michael Orland, Jeff Lorber, Dave Koz, The Dan Band, Allison Janney, Keith Lockhart and The Boston Pops, and Geneva Camerata Symphony. Dave has been seen performing on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Last Call with Carson Daly, Ellen, and
NBC’s Last Comic Standing. He has played on many albums and film/television scores, including the score for the Oscar-winning film “Juno”, Universal Studios “Blockers” and “Dig” on USA Network.
Nick Petrillo
Nick Petrillo is a keyboardist, music director, arranger, and orchestrator based in New York City. Originally from Bound Brook, New Jersey, Nick is a 2010 graduate of Berklee College of Music in Boston, with a dual Bachelor’s Degree in Film Scoring and Contemporary Writing/Production.
As a music director and keyboardist, Nick has performed, recorded, and toured internationally with Dave Koz, Ellis Hall, Tommy Davidson, Jeff Lorber, Casey Abrams, Aubrey Logan, Selina Albright, Ilya Serov, Jazmin Ghent, Vincent Ingala, Ariana Savalas, Mario Jose, Adriana McPhee, Frenchie Davis and David Hernandez. In a career spanning over 15 years, he has worked with the likes of Michael McDonald, Katharine McPhee, David Foster, Chloë Grace Moritz, Michael Orland, Dave Stroud, Todd Schroeder and Simon Fuller’s Now United. Nick is the resident music director for McPhee International Vocal Studios, arranging and producing for artists in development. In 2019, Nick worked as an associate music director and pianist on “American Idol.”
While residing Los Angeles in for 10 years, Nick has worked as an orchestrator on TV, most notably on ABC’s Revenge, Nashville, Modern Family, and Ten Days In The Valley, Showtime’s Shameless, CBS’s Seal Team and Under The Dome, and NBC’s Aquarius and Reverie. He’s also worked on the feature films Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters and an assortment of Mattel’s BARBIE animated features, the video game Halo 4, and the music albums Seal’s Soul II and Rod Stewart’s Merry Christmas, Baby, both under acclaimed producer, David Foster. He continues to work globally on production projects, film scores, and tours.
Will Yanez
Will Yanez is an active music producer and session musician based in Los Angeles. His credits
are diverse, working with artists like Eminem, Daddy Yankee to playing guitar for touring artists, as well as playing with Los Angeles broadway runs of The Bodyguard, School Of Rock, Kinky Boots, and MEMPHIS, among others. Regardless of his task at the moment, Will always enjoys being on stage or in the studio.
General Admission$65Reserved Seats with Dinner
$105
VIP Seating and Premium Dinner for Two
$325
Where?
Camp Tuolumne Trails
22988 Ferretti Road
Groveland, CA 95321
Questions? Please call (209)962-7534 or for fastest response, please email info@tuolumnetrails.org.