Bent String Quartet @ MGB Tasting Room

Bent String Quartet

All Star North Coast Group plays Early Jazz, Acoustic Blues, and Original Music live at Market Garden Brewery Tasting Room!

Featuring:
Kari Ann Rutushin-vocals
Kevin Richards-guitar and strings
Reed Simon-violin
George Lee-acoustic bass

@: Market Garden Brewery Tasting Room 
1849 W. 24th St.

Cleveland, OH
www.marketgardenbrewery.com  (In Ohio City immediately behind Market Garden Brewery and West Side Market on W. 24th St)

Please Note this show is in the Brewery Building directly behind the Market Garden Brewey under the giant "BEER" sign. 
This venue has beer and wine service, but not food service. 
Dinner is available at the Market Garden Brewery before the show. Make reservations by calling: (216) 621-4000
A late night menu is also available at the Market Garden Brewery 10-11 PM. 

Plenty of easy well lit parking right next to the Tasting Room.

Bent String performs a mix of American roots music, including early jazz, acoustic blues, gospel, and originals.

The quartet centers on the vocals of Kari Ann Rutushin and underpinned with the feel of jazz age swing. With Reed Simon’s hot violin, Kevin T. Richards on the archtop guitars and upright bassist George Lee. 

Kevin T. Richards plays many different American roots guitar styles, including blues, jazz and early rock and roll. In Bent String, Kevin focuses on the guitar sounds and styles of Freddie Greene and Charlie Christian. He is recognized by the Ohio Arts Council as a master musician in the Country blues guitar style. Kevin was the founder of the non-profit organization Roots of American Music in 1999, and served for over two decades in various roles. 

Kari Ann Rutushin  Growing up in North East Ohio, Kari Ann started her musical journey like many musicians before her, in a church pew. She is the vocalist front and center with Bent String. She has a passion for early jazz, gospel, and blues. Kari Ann is a a professional vocalist with over a decade of sharing stages across Northeast Ohio. She entertains with her uke, washboard, flute and piano.

William Reed Simon is North East Ohio’s premier Jazz/Swing violinist. His music influences are many including Stephane Grappelli, Joe Venuti, Duke Ellington, and Stuff Smith, all giants of the earlier jazz swing age. Reed is the main soloist in Bent String. He also works with the music group the Hot Club of Cleveland, the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra, and Hot D’Jang, performing swing, bebop and beyond.

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