Direct from Staten Island, The SHA LA DAS (a play on their surname, Schalda) are a musical family in every sense of the phrase. The group is comprised of Patriarch, BILL – who honed his skill and cultivated his ear for harmonies at an early age, singing on the streets of Brooklyn with other neighborhood kids – and his sons WILL, PAUL, and CARMINE, all musicians in their own right (THE EXTRAORDINAIRES, SWIVS, PAUL AND THE TALL TREES.) The genesis of the Sha La Das came to fruition when an old friend, THOMAS BRENNECK, called upon the Schalda boys to sing back-ups on CHARLES BRADLEY’S now classic Victim of Love. The second Tommy heard the four Schaldas sing he knew he had to make a record with them. From the opening atmospheric guitar strum of “Open My Eyes” via a walk along the Coney Island boardwalk catching the last glimpse of sunlight at dusk of "Carnival" to the sublime crescendo of harmonies of the winsome "Love in the Wind," each song evokes a deeply personal yet universal yearning that none of us can escape. Quite simply every song yields magic. Let the full realization of their harmonies wash over the lush instrumentation of MENAHAN STREET BAND, and float into the starlit summer’s night.