Angelena offers original CDs for sale, and a point of communication for those interested in her orchestration, arranging, songwriting, choreography, studio musicianship, performances and lessons in piano, voice, Arabic percussion, Irish tin whistle, and Middle Eastern dance.

Can one woman really do all this? Yes. Angelena's livelong mission is to learn and master disciplines to pass on in performance and teachings. "This is what I do. Advanced societies are defined by the arts and music that survive it. In a world where modern media provides so many distractions from our paths, I feel there is a danger of losing the art, dance, and music that gives our culture value. It is up to people like you and me to go out there and learn and master these things and keep passing them down. I am proof positive that anyone can learn anything if they set their mind and will to it. It just takes time, patience, and a willingness to be a beginner for awhile. "

Born August 4, 1972, Angelena studied music composition at Santa Rosa Junior College and San Francisco State University. She studied Information Technology at University of Phoenix with distinction, and has studied with the best and brightest music and dance masters in the US including Dr Frank Weins, Verna Wicks-DeMartino, Terri Anne, Dr. Val Hicks, Mary Ellen Donald and Antoine Lammam.

Multi-instrumentalist, dancer and vocalist, Angelena was brought up on the piano bench, singing in choirs, taking dance classes, playing flute in school band, being hired as a teenager for church organist positions, and participating in talent shows and international piano competitions. She has enjoyed a long solo career as a pianist/singer/songwriter.

After taking her first bellydance class on a dare with her mother in the early nineties, she fell in love with the Middle Eastern styles of music and eventually became a professional bellydancer and later a professional Arabic percusisonist

Spring, 2007, she was approached by the prestigious University of California at Berkeley to teach Arabic percussion as a part of their Music of Egypt instrumental studies courses.

Angelena plays piano, dumbek, tar, riq, finger cymbals, djembe, bohm system flute, Irish tin whistle, bodran, recorder, and dabbles in various other instruments.

Angelena has performed most notably with now late Hamza el Din and The Grateful Dead, The Georges Lammam Ensemble, Nazir Latouf, Mary Ellen Donald, The Van Winkle Experience, Dusty Wroten and Sophia's Circle, Sisters of the Moon/Three Sisters Bellydancers and the Seventh Veil Ensemble (for which she wrote and directed), Skitzo, John Trubee and the Ugly Janitors of America, and Sadie Luke.

Arabic Celtic Rock fusion ensemble, Boudicca, is now Angelena's pet project and she writes and arranges the bulk of the group's music as well as designs the web, graphics and promotional materials. Angelena is sought after for lessons in her various disciplines, for contract studio instrumental work, performances, and for producing recordings- everything from drum solos for well known dancers to music for film and excercise DVDs.

Angelena is also author of three fictional novels, excerpts of which are available elsewhere on this site for your enjoyment.

Angelena lives in the Northern California Bay Area with her husband, guitarist John Crowhurst, and their two orange cats.

Check out Angelena's MySpace pages and blog:

http://www.myspace.com/angelenamusic
http://www.myspace.com/boudiccamusic
http://angelenakc.livejournal.com/

Check out her Piano/Vocal album at CDBaby: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/angelena

Check out Boudicca on CDBaby:

http://www.cdbaby.com/boudicca

Also, check out some of the other great projects she has appeared on:

John Trubee and the Ugly Janitors of America: Satan Killed Me Today http://www.emusic.com/album/10931/10931034.html A great project - Angelena plays piano, keyboard, percussion and backup vocals on this CD.

Stalin Claus Superstar: A Suplex Prune Hittite Fantasy - Rock Opera by Steven Shultz and company. Angelena was the voice of the Magickal Cufflinks. Available from Subterranean

Skitzo - Hellivator Music and Five Point Containment -. Angelena wrote and recorded the screaming insane demon choir parts and or spooky monk chants on many songs. Available through the Skitzo website. Scary stuff!