PAUL HANSON, MICHAEL MANRING, SCOTT AMENDOLA ELECTRIC ADVENTURES PAUL HANSON-Bassoon, electronics MICHAEL MANRING-Bass, Hyperbass, electronics SCOTT AMENDOLA-drums, electronics Paul Hanson, Michael Manring and Scott Amendola bring their expansive, funky blend of electric bassoon-fed music to Wyldflowr Arts on September 3rd, 2026. With the amount of experience, creativity and unique approaches to their instruments that this group possesses-it’s no wonder each member has had a long career at the vanguard of their genres. Paul, Michael and Scott play exciting music that can shift on an instant in any direction- and the fun they have is easily seen and felt. They all have decades of experience touring, teaching and recording all over the world. The collective experience of this trio is pretty wide-spread as these 3 have performed with quite a list of artists: Jon Batiste, Vinnie Colaiuta, Charlie Hunter, Billy Cobham, Alex Skolnick, John Gorka, Nels Cline, Billy Cobham, Henry Kaiser, Mike Patton, Suzanne Ciani, Sex Mob, Wayne Shorter, Phil Lesh, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Taylor Eigsti, Wadada Leo Smith and many more. QUOTES: "..Over the past decade, Hanson has brought the double reed instrument into areas where it's seldom, if ever, gone before, combining a commanding improvisational sensibility with funk, classical and world music influences. Playing without electronic devices, Hanson produces a sound so full, lithe and flexible that it's easy to forget the mind-boggling intricacies of the instrument that's producing it. When he alters his sound electronically, the bassoon can take on eeire, jaggedly distorted or ethereal timbres. It's hard to overstate just how unlikely a quest Hanson has undertaken in transforming the bassoon from a symphony orchestra instrument into a viable workhorse for extended solos." -Andrew Gilbert, DOWNBEAT Magazine "Hanson is an especially facile, fire-breathing improviser on the bassoon, an instrument rarely, if ever, associated with j