CONCERT / JAZZ
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:: refuge trio
Theo Bleckmann [voice/electronics)]
John Hollenbeck [percussion]
Gary Versace [piano/organ/accordion]


THE NEW YORKER "Expect the unexpected with the refuge trio, featuring the vocalist Theo Bleckmann, the drummer John Hollenbeck, and the keyboardist Gary Versace. Bleckmann and Hollenbeck have enough new-music, cabaret, and jazz chops to move the music in any direction they want, while Versace has lately been making big noise on his Hammond organ."

SEATTLE WEEKLY Refuge Trio takes its name from the Joni Mitchell song Refuge of the Roads. This trio was formed to play at the 2002 Wall-to-Wall Joni Mitchell Marathon Concert at Symphony Space in NYC. Since then, they have continued to explore music from all genres following a unique collaborative path. 
Their repertoire includes their own originals as well as compositions by Joni Mitchell, Theolonius Monk, Dmitri Schostakovitsch, Sidsel Endresen and Allan Holdsworth among others."

PEMA CHÖDRÖN / The fundamental idea of taking refuge is that between birth and death we are alone."


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