A full-body musical experience is heading to the Upstairs Lounge on Friday night (Oct.12).

Innovative musicians/dancers with a quirky neo-trad soul, Evie Ladin and Keith Terry throw down original folk songs with the kinetic thrill of percussive dance. Ladin sings and plays infectious clawhammer banjo, while Terry is a master percussionist.

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A prolific singer-songwriter, percussive dancer and square dance caller, Ladin grew up surrounded by music. She is the daughter of an international folk dance teacher and spent her youth immersed in song and dance at music festivals and house parties on the East Coast. From appearing on A Prairie Home Companion, broadcast live to 3.5 million viewers, to creating an African Studies In Dance major at Brown University, Ladin lives a blend of performance and hands-on teaching.

Trained as a jazz drummer, Keith Terry brings tonal percussion to stand-up bass, is a renowned percussionist/rhythm dancer, the founder of the International Body Music Festival, and a collaborator with a host of inventive performers from Bobby McFerrin, Tex Williams and Robin Williams, to Turtle Island Quartet, Charles B次元官网网址淗oniB次元官网网址� Coles and Bill Irwin. Keith in action is like visiting an anatomical carnival, where hands, feet, fingers, engage in a musical ballet.

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Evie Ladin and Keith Terry perform Oct.12 at 7:30 p.m. (doors at 6 for dinner) in Oak Bay RecreationB次元官网网址檚 Upstairs Lounge, 1975 Bee St. Tickets are $20 in advance at IvyB次元官网网址檚 Bookshop and Oak Bay Recreation or online at Tickets are $25 at the door. Get a taste of the band at .