Who is AND?
"AND" = "Abby N' Dan", the founders of AND Productions and steel drum band Nesta. A husband and wife team, Abby and
Dan are both professional musicians in Los Angeles by training and experience. They have a special fondness for calypso,
reggae, and soca, so being able to perform this music for a living is a true privilege. Both are proud members of the
American Federation of Professional Musicians, Local 47.  
Abby and Dan are professional, punctual, courteous, and are always willing to give their clients suggestions that may help
the musical atmosphere of the event. Often, they perform as a  larger band, Nesta, with other musicians (i.e., steel pan, bass,
drums, guitar, marimba, keyboard), up to a 7-piece band.
Father's Day, 2005.
Dan Savell with pan- legend
Boogsie Sharpe in Trinidad,
January 2004.
Abby and Dan after a performance in
Austin, TX, Nov. 2006, with Ken "Professor"
Philmore, a well- known pan virtuoso.
Abby after performing as a guest in
the stage show "What's My Line?" in
Hollywood. Drew Carey is in the
background, as he was the "Mystery
Guest" for the show. (See Clients page
for more info).
Abby Savell performing at
the Laguna Beach Art
Affaire,  July 2004.
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Dan Savell has been playing music since the age of four
and playing percussion since the age of thirteen. He began
playing steel drums ten years ago while at Fullerton College (in
Southern California) and immediately took to the instrument.
While at Fullerton College, he played with Big Bamboo Steel Band
and performed with renowned pan greats Ken Philmore, Robert
Greenidge, and Boogsie Sharpe. He began doing solo steel drum
performances soon after. In 1996 he transferred to California
Institute of the Arts in Valencia and studied with percussion
maestro John Bergamo. There he studied improvisation with
trumpeter Leo Smith and guitarist Larry Koonse. Dan has visited
Trinidad twice, performing with “Phase II” and “Desperadoes”
Steelbands in Panorama, the annual competition that occurs
during Carnival. Dan graduated from Cal Arts in 1998 with his
Bachelors degree in Percussion. Since then he has become a full-
time professional steel drum player, performing regularly at
private and public events. Recently, he was hired as the steel
drum consultant on the hit NBC TV show, "The Office".
On the general percussion side, Dan's performances also keep
him busy. In 2004, Dan completed the world premiere run of "The
Peachblossom Fan" at the REDCAT theatre in downtown Los
Angeles and can be heard in the Original Cast Recording for this
show with composer Stephin Merritt. He also plays drumset
professionally, and has performed regularly with Broadway star
Neile Adams, jazz icon Kim Richmond, Circo Mundial (the
National Hispanic Circus), and the late magician Harry Blackstone
Jr., as well as performing in over twenty musical productions in
the Los Angeles area. Dan was the staff percussionist for the Cal
Arts dance department from 2004-2006. In 2007, he released his
album “Velocity in Texture: Percussion for the Modern Dance
Class,” which was met with high acclaim. Dan's article, "Getting
Around the Double Seconds,"  was published in the Percussive
Arts Society journal in 2007. He was seen and heard playing steel
pan on the TV show, "Deal or No Deal," in June 2007, and drums
on "Ugly Betty," in January 2008.
Abby Savell has been playing music since the age of five,
starting on piano. At fourteen, she began playing percussion and
took to it immediately. She received her Bachelor's of Music in
Percussion in 2002; soon after, she joined the steel drum band
Big Bamboo, playing tenor pan and performing at multiple events.
Abby is one of very few female steel drum/vocalists in the Los
Angeles area. She completed her Master's degree in Percussion at
California Institute of the Arts, studying Western percussion with
David Johnson and John Bergamo, Latin Percussion with Aaron
Serfaty, and improvisation with harpist Susan Allen. In May 2004,
she performed the World Premiere of the highly virtuosic Sonata
for Xylophone and Piano by acclaimed composer Bruce Levine.
She also played percussion with bass-legend Charlie Haden, in
his "Liberation Orchestra II", as well as performing with xylophone
virtuoso Bob Becker on the East Coast and in Los Angeles. In
June of 2004, she performed with the Pacific Symphony
Orchestra under renowned composer/conductor John Williams.
Currently, Abby plays with the Kim Richmond Concert Jazz
Orchestra, with whom she has performed at the Jazz Bakery, and
onstage for the annual Spotlight Awards at the Dorothy Chandler
Pavilion. She loves playing steel drums professionally, having
performed at the Ritz-Carlton Laguna Niguel and Tommy
Bahama's Restaurants, and at numerous private functions with a
band and as a soloist. She has also worked and performed with
steel drum virtuoso Ken Philmore, and visited Trinidad (the
birthplace of steel drums) in December 2003. Abby also
specializes in the marimba, with which she plays many genres of
music on the solo and group level. She appeared on the show
"Outer Spaces" on HGTV.
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