Drummer Siguenza
Meet Hurricane Andrew Larsen
'Hurricane' Andrew Larsen joined the band in early 2004. As a professional musician, Andrew maintains demanding performance and teaching schedules. In addition to Los Orchids, you can hear him each Sunday morning at Browns Point United Methodist Church, where he performs primarily classical and gospel music. You may also catch him singing or playing thhe guitar at the 8:30 and 11:00am services. Andrew has been teaching private piano lessons since 1996 and currently has over thirty students.
Andrew's talents have been recognized by the Washington Blues Society from which he is an award winner and nominee as the Best Keyboardist the last nine years. In 2002, his band Girl Trouble Blues' won the award as the Best New Band, only to break up the following year.
Larsen has been sought-after in the Puget Sound's rhythm and blues community for several years and has been featured on recordings by Henry Cooper, Mark DeFresne (Roomful of Blues), Mike Lynch, Jack Cooke, Charlene Grant, Jon Blackstone and The Doug Lynn Band. Publications reviewing Henry Cooper's CD 'Slide Man,' have raved about Andrew's performance. The March 2000 issue of Blues revue states, "The album's best blues is 'After All,' a downtempo 7-minute tour de force that includes a gorgeous organ solo by Andrew Larsen." New Orleans' October 1999 issue of Offbeat proclaims, "The entire band is the real star of the show, especially Hammond B-3 organist Andrew Larsen, who threatens to hijack the album and take it back home with him." The Washington Bluesletter states, "Andrew Larsen is an expert on keyboards....thrilling piano....'Hurricane' Andrew Larsen breezes in with work that leaves you breathless."
Andrew is a veteran performer with featured appearances at Bumbershoot, Folklife, and a Bite of Austin, and has shared the stage with the late William Clarke, the late Isaac Scott, Little Bill, Jerry Miller, Duffy Bishop and Merrilee Rush. Larsen has performed professionally in Canada, Texas, Washington, Oregon, California and Louisiana.
We invite you to visit Andrew's website, www.andrew--larsen.com to hear performances by him and his students, read about his teaching philosophy and free online piano lessons.
Meet Darryl Siguenza....
Darryl began his musical career in Seattle performing his first paying gig at the tender age of twelve. Mentored by the late great Ernie Hatfield Sr. a former member of the Ella Fitzgerald band, he learned to "listen" and developed his musical ears. By the time he was 19 he had already backed up John Lee Hooker, Johnny "guitar" Watson, and opened shows for The Grateful Dead and Pink Floyd. His group Mojo Hand was one of the most popular groups in the Pacific NW and the band is a NW rock legend. He started rock band TKO with bassist Mark Seidenverg later adding three more members to complete the band. This group was signed by CBS records to a three record deal and worldwide tours soon followed. He recorded their biggest album to date "Let it Roll" that broke the Top 100 and has never been surpassed in sales by any album TKO subsequently released. Darryl left the group after the first album because of "creative differences" and has never looked back. Over the years he has played with everyone from Buddy Miles to J.B. Hutto to Alice Stuart and continues to hold down the fatback drum groove with some of the Northwest's most well known musicians.
