Fogartyville Songwriter Series hosted by Jamie Tremps, featuring Jack Berry and Ruffus | Monday, Sept. 14, 7 p.m. | Doors open at 6 p.m.
Tickets: $8 members; $10 not-yet-members; $5 students (13+)
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STORIES BEHIND THE SONGS
Music fans will gather to hear a trio of songwriters playing in-the-round in between sharing stories and describing their process.
Jamie Tremps
Jamie Tremps is a southwest Florida native and self-taught artist recognized for her pleasant and sometimes odd reinterpretations of popular and unpopular songs. Her current means of expression include layering vocal harmonies, guitar, banjo-ukulele and her beloved spoons and telephone. Jamie writes her own stuff too, gleaning inspiration from our natural world and her own inner world. Jamie is currently hyper-focused on practicing radical self-love and acceptance while learning what it means to live in community. She likes to laugh and make others laugh and is generally very happy, at least at the time of writing this bio =)
Jack Berry
Multi-instrumentalist Jack Berry was born in Sarasota in 1995 & has been performing and recording locally & internationally with a variety of artists since 2010. Founder of local eco band The Garbage-Men & co-founder/composer with Hungarian jazz trio Aūto Kania & The Tamas Nagy Eksperience, his own solo songs take influence from his parents record collection of the singer/songwriters & activists of the 60s & 70s. He has played with Ruffus since 2017 & began collaborating with Jamie in 2021, working with both musicians in many permutations and fun projects over the years!
Ruffus-/ Rafael Silva
Hailing from Santos, Brazil, Rafael Silva, otherwise known as “Ruffus,” began his musical studies at eleven years of age and by the time he was fifteen, could play thirteen instruments such as: Saxophone, Clarinet, Flute, Piano, Bass, Guitar, Harmonica, Mandolin, Trumpet, and more. He studied at Souza Lima College in Sao Paulo City, playing and studying with a number of renowned Brazilian musicians.
In 2007, he was awarded a scholarship to study at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. With two bachelor’s and a master’s degrees in music, he pursued a minor in the culinary arts and one in astronomy. While living in the northeastern USA, he performed with illustrious American jazz players at venues such as the Blue Note Jazz Club, The Bitter End Club and the Jazz Standard in NYC. Rafael has been teaching music for about 17 years, both individual and group lessons on a number of instruments, in conservatories and high school programs.
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