Originating out of MA and NC, Dan DiResta and Chaucer Barnes met at Gettysburg College in 2002. After a few sessions of talkshop music and chordal progressions, the two colleagues began to produce an original sound. Having recently moved to Portland OR, Copacrescent includes Dan on guitar, Chaucer on microphone, Chris Ponti on bass, Steve Aman on keys and Rod Nightingale on drums. The group plays live hip-hop, infused with everything under the sun.
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Originating out of MA and NC, Dan DiResta and Chaucer Barnes met at Gettysburg College in 2002. After a few sessions of talkshop music and chordal progressions, the two colleagues began to produce an original sound. Having recently moved to Portland OR, Copacrescent includes Dan on guitar, Chaucer on microphone, Chris Ponti on bass, Steve Aman on keys and Rod Nightingale on drums. The group plays live hip-hop, infused with everything under the sun.
Chaucer Barnes started publicly performing the rhymes he had been writing since childhood after a fateful interview on his college radio show in which he got a chance to freestyle on air with a group of MCs from Baltimore, MD. He would eventually go on to join his guests from that night in the loosely-organized rhyme collective known as N.U.O. He began to play shows throughout the DC/Baltimore Metro area, where he was recruited by Drum-and-Bass DJ and producer, Brian DePristo. DePristo commissioned two recordings from Chaucer, one of which, M3L7, went to a limited printing and distribution, and became a favorite spin for a series of DJs from Philadelphia, PA to Richmond, VA. His invitation to sit in with Copacrescent, then an instrumental modern jazz trio, came shortly thereafter.
Dan DiResta is a multi-instrumentalist and the guitarist/song writer for Copacrescent. Chaucer and Dan met at Gettysburg College in 2002. After graduation, they moved to Portland in the pursuit of making new music. Originally from West Newbury, Massachusetts, Dan comes from a family of weirdos and professional musicians, including bassist Ken Pendergast (Melody Gardot) and drummer Matt Pendergast (Tonal). He has shared the stage with several Portland musicians and international acts like Ozomatli, Luciano, Grouch of Living Legends, Grey Matter, Soliloquists of Sound, Triclops, Linda Hornbuckle and Liv Warfield. Dan also plays in the instrumental group, C4. Check out some of his work at www.myspace.com/dandirestamusic
Rod Nightingale has been playing drums since the age of 4. He plays regularly @ Mt. Olivet Baptist church as well as several other projects: The Linda Hornbuckle band, Copacrescent, Acoustic Minds, Marv Ellis, Oregon Symphony, to name a few. You can catch him weekly @ Poetic Nights every thursday @ The OHM. He's been fortunate to share the stage with some of his favorite artists, most notably The Roots, Ozomatli, and The Doobie Brothers. For more info, check his myspace/rodcnightingale, or youtube/blacknotes.
Chris Ponti, from Stayton, OR. A born artist; dreamt of pursuing a life in visual arts until completely falling in love with music at age 15. He went to Catholic school for 8 years where he picked up the trombone in the third grade. It wasn't until the age of 15 that he discovered the electric bass while listening to friends rehearse. Soon after he replaced the bass player in the group and began to play on a daily basis. After graduating high school, Chris moved to Portland to get involved with a bigger music scene. He has played in various bands in the Portland area for the last 5 years, and studied music in the PSU Jazz program for 3 years before opting out for a Bachelor's of Arts and Letters. Chris has studied privately with bassist Glen Moore for 2 years.
Steve Aman is from Corvallis, OR, and helps front the Portland-based latin jazz group, Sambafeat, and teaches music at Ethos in NE Portland. Steve has played in several groups in Portland including the soul band, Grand Union. On the regular, you can check Steve playing at Andina Restaurant every Monday night.
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