In February 2024, Andrew Gilbert wrote a great profile of the collaboration of the Gurgel and Cressman Families.  A beautiful melding of musical and personal parallels… click here: https://www.sfcv.org/articles/feature/tale-two-jazz-families-brazil-and-bay-area#

In June, 2022 Sandy was awarded the San Francisco Art Commission's "SF Artist Grant" for her project "Cantos do Povo: the Music of Milton Nascimento".  The grant will funded new arrangements, compositions, rehearsals and performance of a multi media show…

On Wednesday, May 26, 2021 at 8:30 PM, San Jose's Art Boutiki presented a beautifully filmed livestream concert of Homenagem Brasileira's first show with a live audience.  Art Boutiki did a great job with the camera work and fantastic sound.…

I have added a new page with the English Translations of the lyrics from the "Entre Amigos" CD.  Click on TRANSLATIONS to access.  Aproveitam! Enjoy!

In 2017, we released a Music Video for the song "Não Me Acorde Não" (Please Don't Wake Me), filmed in Recife, Brazil with Spok and members of SpokFrevo Orquestra.  The song tells the story of the wonderful and surreal…