performers
Stu Llanes Manzano
Stu Llanes Manzano is a pianist and jazz composer whose work combines the jazz tradition with Filipino folk forms, the music of Brazil, electronica, and funk. He studied Jazz Composition and Contemporary Writing and Production at Berklee College of Music in Boston and has performed with many popular bands including Streets of Rome, Snaps for Sinners (formerly Buck Thrifty), and Kyle Craft. A Music Minister at St. Vincent’s Parish in Petaluma since 2010, he has also been the piano accompanist for all Justin-Siena Choir concerts since 2021.
Performances
Animated Cartoon Classics
Step back in time with a family-friendly Saturday morning program of silent films and early animated cartoons brought to life on the Jarvis screen by live piano accompaniment and custom live sound effects. Enjoy early slapstick gags at their finest in The Cook (1918), directed by Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, starring Arbuckle and Buster Keaton, and see Walt Disney’s hand-drawn precursor to Mickey Mouse — Oswald the Lucky Rabbit — in The Mechanical Cow (1922) and Trolley Troubles (1927). Selections from the Fleischer Brothers’ Koko the Clown cartoons and more round out this not to be missed adventure in early cinema fun.