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perform Saturday at Cordova Bay United Church to benefit Our Place Society.
The Vancouver-based Reischman is revered for his ability to play genres ranging from bluegrass to jazz to hot swing to Latin and beyond. He played on the Grammy-winning True Life Blues: The Songs of Bill Monroe and was a member of the influential Tony Rice Unit, which blended jazz, bluegrass, swing and folk.
This will be the ninth time the band brings a Christmas show to Victoria and will also celebrate the release of the JaybirdsB次元官网网址� seventh album, On That Other Green Shore, hailed by Peghead Nation as B次元官网网址渙ne of the most beguiling bluegrass-rooted recordings of 2017.B次元官网网址�
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Sauber has played and recorded with John Fogerty, Doc Watson and Peter Rowan and was a cast member of the movie comedy A Mighty Wind. The Dec. 2 performance will also include special guests Miriam Sonstenes and Jeff Dill. Sonstenes has played with VictoriaB次元官网网址檚 award-winning The Sweet Lowdown and had one of her original songs featured on the 2017 International Bluegrass Music AssociationB次元官网网址檚 Bluegrass Album of the Year, Mountain Voodoo, by Balsam Range.
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