THIS
THUS
The band’s name is transitioning from THIS to THUS. While the material is being updated, you might see at times one name and at times another.
Upcoming Shows
No upcoming shows at the moment. Stay tuned...
Photo Albums
THIS at 230 Down Feb. 2018
THIS at Pianos Jan. 2017
THIS at Pianos Dec. 2016
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Videos
Compilation by THIS (now THUS)
OriginalsHamptons Music Family
Hamptons Music Family is a Youtube Channel broadcasting music, art, activities, events, and all the beauty happenning in the Hamptons area, where THUS has lately been active. Many thanks, Hamptons Music Family, for including THUS in your program!
Our band THUS
“THUS” means we share music as an experience and can’t put it in words. Rooted in classic Rock and Roll, THUS draws elements from funk, jazz, pop, Latin, classical music and other genres, creating its own fusion. Bandleader Omar Haddad is a multi-instrumentalist, mainly a guitarist, vioinist, and singer-songwriter, of Arab descent, born in Canada, and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and he’s been based in New York City since 2007 and in the Hamptons since 2017. Omar recorded strings for Elizabeth McGovern, of Downton Abbey, and he has played for Nancy Atlas and Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Amma The hugging Saint, and The Glory Gospel Singers.
“THIS is immediately available. THIS breath, THIS feeling, THIS sound, THIS song. And living in the moment is what art needs
to make itself evident. To be involved with THIS (whatever it happens to be any given moment), and to commit to it openly,
is a practice, and it is a way of life. To live JUST THIS is to surrender. It is to give up expectations and fears for the
sake of expressiveness and freedom, and that is what every artist is trying to do.
THIS is not an idea. It is real. Words can describe, but they can never replace the experience of THIS. And finally, THIS
is always changing, like music. We can play a ballad or a heavy rock song, and the thread that keeps it all together is
always the same, and it is always there for us to share it together. Just THIS.”
Omar Haddad