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Across The Universe – The Ultimate Beatles Tribute

Across the Universe (ATU) In addition to performing, Steiner has produced as well as teaching guitar, bass, and ukulele to a large
is the premier musical tribute numerous albums, television and radio commercials, roster of students ranging in age from 7 to 70.
to the music of Lennon, TV programs, and produced and directed the feature
McCartney, Harrison, and film Bumping off Burt with his Fort Lauderdale based
Starr. Their repertoire consists production company Q Station. In 2009, he received his
of selected music from the first Emmy award for outstanding Sound Design in a
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Beatles, Wings, and the lads’ television series.
solo careers.
ATU is comprised of professional studio and touring
musicians who bring the music of The Beatles and their
solo careers to life on stage with an accuracy and attention
to detail that can only be described as incredible. The
show takes listeners on a musical journey through the
careers of Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and Starr and Born in Queens, N.Y., to two classical musicians, Peter
includes selections ranging from their early careers in Maerz was playing the family piano and Hammond organ
Hamburg, Germany through 1980 and beyond. before his feet touched the floor. He joined his first band
Unlike most Beatles tribute bands consisting of at age 13, and by 16 years of age was playing regularly
actors with instruments, ATU members are professional with a surf rock band called The Wipeouts. At 17, he
studio musicians who combine the sound of the original Born and raised in Kalamazoo, Mich., to a musical led a jazz combo, hauling the family organ in a U-Haul
recordings with a high-energy show to bring you the most family, Daryl Tomas began playing guitar at the age of 8. each weekend to a steady gig at the Easthampton Coach
authentic Beatles experience anywhere. By the age of 15 he was playing with a local rock band. restaurant/lounge.
The Band! Tomas relocated to South Florida where he has been a After attending Boston’s Berklee College of Music as
mainstay in the south Florida music scene ever since. a piano major, Maerz moved to California’s Bay Area,
He has performed, recorded, and toured with local and where he took up the drums with master teacher Chuck
national artists from the United States and Mexico. He Brown. A move to Florida found him co-leading and
appeared in the movie The Boynton Beach Club and has playing drums with the popular nightclub band KIKS
served in the music ministries of many local churches. and then in a long run as leader, drummer, percussionist,
When he’s not onstage with Across The Universe, he keyboardist and vocalist with the band CLIK!
spends his time freelancing with other musical projects

Deuterman Productions Presents from page 3

Rick Rossano has a longstanding obsession with B.B. King, Allen Toussaint, Buddy Guy, and Dr. John.
’60s music. After watching all The Beatles appearances Whether in those high-profile performances or in more
on the Ed Sullivan Show, he was seldom found without intimate venues where the band itself can leave the
a transistor radio stuck to his ear and a pack of Beatles stage and get down on the dance floor, the California
trading cards in his pocket. He thinks Ringo is dreamy. Honeydrops’ shared vision and purpose remain: to
Rossano is a veteran of several of South Florida’s top make the audience dance and sing.
retro-rock combos, including Rickie & The Rocketships, The Honeydrops have come a long way since
The White Owls and The Dillingers. guitarist and trumpeter Lech Wierzynski and drummer
Ben Malament started busking in an Oakland subway Bradbury on bass, they’ve built a powerful full-band
station, but the band has stayed true to that organic, sound to support Wierzynski’s vocals. More like parties
street-level feel. Listening to Lech sing, it can be than traditional concerts, their shows feature extensive
a surprise that he was born in Warsaw, Poland, and off-stage jamming and crowd interaction. “The whole
raised by Polish political refugees. He learned his vocal point is to erase the boundaries between the crowd and
stylings from contraband American recordings of Sam us,” Wierzynski says. “We don’t make setlists. We want
Cooke, Ray Charles, and Louis Armstrong, and later requests. We want crowd involvement, to make people
at Oberlin College and on the club circuit in Oakland, become a part of the whole thing by dancing along,
Calif. With the additions of Johnny Bones on tenor sax singing, picking the songs and generally coming out
and clarinet, Lorenzo Loera on keyboards, and Beau of their shells.”

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