Peggy Gerber, Fred Fried and Michael Ryle in Concert

Our music is not merely the coupling of Bach with Brazilian rhythms, or Gershwin with gutbucket blues, or Debussy with a groove; it’s also a broad array of musical influences.

We are three musicians whose backgrounds and experience range from roadhouse to the concert hall, who believe that music lies beyond category and genre, and for whom quality of sound takes precedence, which is why the band uses minimal amplification in live performance. All our music is composed or arranged by Fred and Michael. The result is not merely the coupling of Bach with Brazilian rhythms, or Gershwin with gutbucket blues, or Debussy with a groove. There is an alchemy here that refashions a broad array of musical influences into a sound that is in the end more the sum of its parts and a marriage of composition and improvisation, of structure and spontaneity.

Tickets: General Admission $18/Members $15.