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Straight Down from the Bridge

About Me

We land at a five-point intersection of cabaret, world, folk, jazz, and classical music. We met in music school (Go Blue) and have been working together ever since. Here's a little info about our experience.................................................. ..............................Straight Down from the Bridge has played in spaces ranging from prestigious concert venues such as Jordan Hall in Boston to rock clubs like Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn, and from urban gallery environments like the Tenri Institute in Greenwich Village or the MFA Downtown Austin to the ambient and reverberant Holy Trinity Chapel in Ann Arbor, MI. Straight Down from the Bridge has collaborated with a number of acclaimed ensembles including NYC's NOW Ensemble, Boston's Firebird Ensemble, and the University of Michigan's praised Big-Band Jazz Ensemble under the direction of Ellen Rowe.

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Music:

Member Since: 21/05/2007
Band Members: Marcin Bela, composer/pianist/singer ......... Lisa Harkness, singer/pianist/composer .... Suzanne Klock, singer
Influences: This video shows a rehearsal for one of our recent shows and has a spoken commentary on Marcin's music.

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Sounds Like: Straight Down from the Bridge has performed its original material in many contexts--as a cabaret show, a jazz concert, a rock set, and a classical recital among others. This flexible dynamic allows the group to experiment with instrumentation and style, and welcomes audiences from across the spectrum. In every environment, they stun listeners with the virtuosity, intensity, and color of the music and delivery.
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Want to know more about the lyrics?

Impromptu sets a text by a Polish author, Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer Legenda of Jasiu Zbojniku, which is an early 20th century rendition of an ancient folk ballad from the Polish Highlands. Although ...
Posted by on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 17:10:00 GMT

Press Release for the Philly Live Arts/Philly Fringe Festival

Straight Down from the Bridge is a collective of musicians from Philadelphia, Krakow, and Nashville. Their new project, Kabaret, dives into the honesty and sensuality of nightclub music. The group h...
Posted by on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 14:03:00 GMT

Welcome to our new page!

Marcin and Suzanne decided it was time to come together on myspace. So here is our new page. Keep checking in on our other pages for side projects and new music. If you have a second to post a comm...
Posted by on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 13:06:00 GMT