PAUL SCHRAG: UNCLE BONSAI >>>
Uncle Bonsai is the real deal. Filed most often under “folk,†the original trio of Ashley O’Keeffe, Andrew Ratshin, and Arni Adler made more than 200 original songs and toured like mad before taking an extended hiatus beginning in the very late 1980s. Maybe it’s a change in the air, or maybe the world has called for more beautifully weird storytellers to join the chorus. Whatever it is, Uncle Bonsai is back, and they’ll play the Pythian Temple in Tacoma tonight.
Joining the band tonight, and standing in place of Ashley O’Keeffe, with be local legend Patrice O’Neill, who will help Uncle B bring what has been heralded as amazing folk-pop-performance art madness to all you lucky listeners. I don’t know about you, but O’Neill’s angelic voice combined with the celestial weirdness and beauty of Uncle Bonsai sounds like a match made in heaven to me.
Check it at the Pythian Temple, and get tickets at LeRoy Jewelers.
[Pythian Temple, Friday, Nov. 14, 8 p.m., $17-$20, 926.5 Broadway, Tacoma, 253.272.4433]