2nd annual
Rock the Block
Meet Our 2022 Performers!
Connor Chee
What musical expression means to Irv is that it’s a certain kind of therapy. That can help clear the mind and help people forget about the negativity, even if it is a sad song. Also, there are no rules in musical expression. Here, solo, is one-man band Irv Wauneka!
Irv Wauneka
Garrett Hodgson
21-year-old multi-musician who loves to get his hands on instruments and make music that comes from his inner deeper heart. With songs of meanings and questions he lingers to his everyday living and life. He hopes each night he performs to put a smile on the wonderful audience as they retrieve back home to their normal lives.
Garrett Hodgson is from the hills of California and moved down to Albuquerque, NM, to be with relatives and friends. He discovered a music awareness in a small community in which he was told about. A nice, kind, open community called ‘Ft. Defiance’, where performers and musicians come to play. Garrett will be playing on his keyboard and guitar for his solo show alongside his tenor voice. He plays in a genre of an upbeat progressive rock pop that surely makes you want to dance and move.
As a young boy, he had discovered many types of exotic instruments. His favorite loving grandma taught him how to play on an upright piano, teaching him how to play easy chords, nursery rhymes and hymnals. As the years passed, he owned his very first electric keyboard and started making his own music, playing wonderful scores and genres. He started playing on a 6-string guitar but later over the years he wanted a challenge and decided to play on a12-string guitar.
To Garrett, Musical expression is something that can’t be expressed correctly or in tune but something that has a powerful meaning or two to what gives it a meaningful life, that only one or so will understand. He urges on finding his inner expression in his musical life.