Performer Profile: Jazz Trio SPAGA Playing Ardmore Music Hall

ARDMORE, PA — Live music is back in Ardmore, with the Ardmore Music Hall hosting numerous socially-distanced and limited capacity shows.

This weekend, SPAGA is playing the venue Thursday and Friday

Here's are five things to know about the group:

1) SPAGA is a Philly-based electro-jazz trio formed by keyboardist Aron Magner, bassist Jason Fraticelli, and drummer Matt Scarano in 2018.

2) Magner is best known as a founding member of Disco Biscuits, a Philadelphia jam band.

3) According to the band, SPAGA "channels the individual players' origins as virtuosic instrumentalists, bringing together grand piano, upright bass and drums into a fusion context full of unexpected twists and improvisation."

4) SPAGA released their self-titled album in 2019 and recently released a live recorded EP, which includes a jazz cover of Led Zeppelin's "Black Dog."

5) During the pandemic, the band got creative (no surprise there) and reimagined their song "Wild Bill" in a virtual setting. "[Scarano] programmed the virtual lights, like he would for an actual performance, but also built the stage, theater and our bodies in a 3D environment. We each took 16 pictures from different angles of our faces that he was able to animate onto our avatars. I think the end result was an incredible cool departure from the limitations of life in quarantine, and the art in this technology is in its potential for the future."

Check out some SPAGA performances below:

Tickets are available online here.