The San Francisco-based pickPocket Ensemble creates contemporary chamber café music inspired by Balkan, Klezmer, and Mediterranean musical traditions. Their intricate, acoustic arrangements weave together accordion, violin, guitar, bass, and percussion to form a sound that is both hauntingly familiar and freshly innovative. Operating in a sonic space all their own, the group bridges global folk roots with modern classical sensibilities.
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The pickPocket Ensemble plays contemporary chamber café music that blends Balkan, Klezmer, and Mediterranean traditions with acoustic instrumentation.
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The ensemble features Rick Corrigan on accordion, Marguerite Ostovski on violin, Tim Fox on guitar, Kurt Ribak on bass, and Michaelle Goerlitz on percussion.
The pickPocket Ensemble is based in San Francisco, California.
