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the
pickPocket ensemble has been
making it's brand of original acoustic music since 1998. We have
released 4 CD's, soon to add a 5th, Soul Cafe, early in
2007. Our music has been featured in several films, as well as on
KQED's program Spark. We have been featured at the Etnosur
Festival in Alcala La Real, Spain, and have toured in the Netherlands
and Germany.
The pickPocket ensemble
is:
composer Rick Corrigan on accordion,
Chloe Allen on violin, Tim Fox
on guitar,
Greg Kehret on bass, and Katja Cooper
on percussion.
more on the personnel
"If you only knew
how good this act is... the pickPocket Ensemble is a band from San
Francisco founded by accordionist and composer Rick Corrigan. They
play a certain style of music that can't be found anywhere, not
even in the geographical areas they claim their music to be coming
from. Middle eastern? Gipsy Music? let's call it pickPocket style.
If I Were A Highway is their best production and it should be looked
closely not as a pop phenomenon nor as a potential world success,
but just as beautiful music with no boundaries of any kind. "Prague"
is a gipsy dance tune that recalls those Czech Republic cafes on
the street where beautiful women are trying to steal your heart
as well as your tourist-ass-wallet. "Valls" is a conection
to spanish-peruvian waltzes, arriving softly on our ears. Once again,
where's Sony, Nonesuch or Telarc? Can't they sign this band already?
The world needs this band ASAP." - Javier Moreno, review
on Amazon.com
more from our
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© the pickPocket ensemble 1998-2006
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