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Barbara Higbie
Saturday, June 7, 2008
CD release show w/ Teresa Trull, Katrina Krimsky, George Brooks, Celso Alberti & Dewayne Pate
Door 7:30 P.M., Music 8:00 P.M. | Purchase advance tickets: $20.50

If it suddenly feels like things are warmer and sunnier around the East Bay, it could be because summer is here . . . but more likely, it's because Barbara Higbie has returned from Hawaii! Better yet, she's holding a release party for her brand-new CD, Alive in Berkeley, recorded here at the Freight!

An exuberant, multi-talented fiddle and piano virtuoso in many musical styles, as well as the possessor of a lovely singing voice and a stage presence like a ray of sunshine, Barbara's music combines technical brilliance and pure joie de vivre. In tonight's multi-faceted show, Barbara performs material from her new CD, as well as old favorites and brand-new, never-before-heard pieces, backed by an impressive selection of guests, including vocal dynamo Teresa Trull, piano virtuoso Katrina Krimsky, saxophonist George Brooks, percussionist Celso Alberti, and bassist Dewayne Pate.

Barbara's rich background includes classical piano and violin studies, immersion in the musical culture of Ghana, ground-breaking work with the jazz-folk-bluegrass band Montreux and with Terry Riley, and acclaimed collaborations with Teresa. Her unique compositions bring together jazz, folk, classical, African, Brazilian, and Celtic elements to create music that is lyrical, rhythmically playful, and harmonically inventive.

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