A Water Bear reunion get-together at REP Studio!
Last winter Feb 2020, BEFORE the pandemic lockdown, Tim Reppert instigated having a Water Bear reunion music session at REP Studio, and I was overjoyed to be playing that repertoire again, with almost all of the wonderful players who were part of our last grouping before Tim moved to Boston. Ben Blechman is in Oregon now, so he was not there to provide another violin, but we had Chris White on cello, Bill Cowdery on piano, Nate Richardson on guitar, Tim on bass, me on violin, and I recruited Tim Ball (who was a student of founding Water Bear member Ruth Roland’s) to play violin with me. We asked Hank Roberts as well, but he was only going to be in town briefly in between travels for gigs, so he begged off. One piece we played was Dances One, and you can hear a recorded version on our Live at The Congo CD, with much the same players, except Ben Blechman instead of Tim Ball. Live at the Congo by Water Bear I can’t yet really play for very long at one sitting (or standing!), but had a