TOUR News & Updates!

Mataji Booker and Luca Romano on Tour

The Wild Horse Winery, Templeton CA

Aug 2, 2014 Hosted By Steve Key

Watch Checkmate LIVE at Kulaks' Woodshed

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    TOUR  SCHEDULE

June 27  Battery Books, South Pasadena CA

July 9  HopVine Pub open mic, Seattle WA

July 10  Black Dog Cafe, Snoqualmie WA

July 27  Backyard Coffee Co., Redwood City CA

July 28 Hotel Utah open mic, San Francisco CA

July 29 Element Skateboards Camp, Montecino CA

July 30 Left Coast Wine Bar, Glendale CA

July 31 The Shell Cafe, Pismo Beach CA

Aug 2 Wild Horse Winery, Templeton CA

Aug 3 Private House Concert, Pasadena CA

Aug 4 Kulaks' Woodshed, Valley Village CA

Aug 6 Firefly Bistro, South Pasadena CA

Aug 7 Braj Gallery, Los Angeles CA

The Official Mataji Booker Music Website is up!

Catch upcoming gigs, view videos, photos and everything Mataji Booker music!

Many thanks to wix.com, an easy to use option that allowed me to easily create a site solely devoted to my music! A definite recommend to anyone needing a website for your business. They've thousands of easy to use, beautiful streamlined templates and I've really enjoyed this process. But you don't have to take my word for it, have a looksie yourself! http://matajibookermusic.com 

Matt Schodorf Photography

Latitudes Release Concert, Lineage Performing Arts Center

Aug 30th, 2013, Old Town Pasadena: Joined by a host of friends from the local community of Pasadena and neighboring South Pas - Ben Kishaba (guitar), Jose Gurria Cardenas (percussion), Shirgeru Logan (viola) and Chris Rolontz (upright bass) helped me bring Latitudes to life in the flesh! "Love Aquarius" is one of six tunes on my newly released EP, available now on Spotify.

Night Shooting w/ Photographer Stefano Gali

Night Shoot. Old School. Film, not digital. Longer than usual held poses. Biting cold. Energized and thrilled to be creating something spontaneous - art for arts sake. Took me back to my old days of modeling before digital was born. Things took time. Light needed to be measured and we had to actually wait (think of that) to see if any thing even came of it. Night shoot. Old School. Holding, waiting. Thrilling, spontaneous. Film...

Where the Sunset and  Hollywood Blvd's intersect...

As you can see, recent LA implant Stefano Gali is a stellar artist. Italian born and bred and with a background in Film, his images remind me of cinematic stills, which naturally, I love. His images are real, sensuous and full of intrigue. We met while both working in South Pas at the edge of Summer.  It was a pleasure to create and collaborate with him around Los Angeles between the hours of 10pm and just passed midnight as we moved from Summer into Fall.

Vista Theater, Los Feliz. 

I've been coming here since I was a kid. I can't tell you how many double features I saw here with my big 6 person family. Well, I usually fell asleep before the second film to be honest. Warm memories. 

Cinematic theater (I do not smoke)

In the photographers vintage Mercedes, Mel's Drive In, Hollywood

At the all night Denny's across the street from Union Station Downtown. 

Some of the most beautiful shots from the movie "Drive" were filmed here.

And that's a wrap...

Check out phenomenal non digitized photography here at:

http://Stefanogali.com