RETRO AF!

Singer/comedian Lisa Koch celebrates the Big One at her annual Birthday Bash, Saturday February 27th, and her wicked social satire couldn’t be more timely. Featuring fabulous multi-instrumentalist Barbara Higbie (Windham Hill, Trull/Higbie, Olivia), and a pile of ridiculously talented friends n’ family:

Alicia Healy (Seattle singer-songwriter, Winterblue Room Studios); 
David Koch (Cabaret de Paris, ACT, Sing Out Seattle);
Quincy Koch (Lisa’s awesome singin’ niece); 
Glenn Lorbecki (GlennSound, Grammies - guitar); 
Jason Edwards (Shaggy Sweet - drums);

Lisa’s alter ego, Sister Mary Agnes, will also be on hand with inappropriate birthday commentary.

It’s a milestone event, and Koch's 20th Bash in Seattle. Lisa's crazy pals often pop by for this event, so there’s no telling who will wander onstage for this wonderfully spontaneous jam.  Don’t miss this night of comedy, community, and fabulous music.

Lisa Koch

“Tina Fey meets Randy Rainbow with Joan Jett guitar chops.” 

Koch is best known for her work with loony Seattle sketch-comedy duo, Dos Fallopia (“Ham for the Holidays”), cult quartet Venus Envy ("I'll Be A Homo For Xmas"), and Seattle cabaret ("The Carpeters:  Uncomfortably Close To You"). She has 5 solo recordings, has been featured on Olivia and LOGO, is the composer of Off-Broadway musical “27, Rue de Fleurus”, and actually had one of her songs sampled by Jay-Z. Lisa brings the funny, with velvet pipes, razor-sharp parody, and biting social commentary. She also brings her alter ego Sister Mary Agnes, and her musings on being a woman… from middle age to mammograms to mirth.  

REVIEWS

“Hearing Seattle's Lisa Koch is one of life's wickedest pleasures…”  --Curve Magazine

“Be prepared to have your hair blown back by the musical comedy force that is Lisa Koch.” -- LN Magazine

“None of this would work so well if Koch weren't such a dandy singer, guitarist and song-dismantler. There's almost nothing she can't do to subvert a popular classic…” -- Seattle Times

“Koch’s talents seem to know no bounds as she goes from gut-busting comedy into an introspective beautiful medley and back again…” -- Broadway World

Barbara Higbie  A Grammy-nominated, Bammy award winning composer, pianist, fiddler, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Barbara Higbie was the first female instrumentalist to compose and record for Windham Hill Records, and she has played on more than 100 albums (including Carlos Santana and Bonnie Raitt). She was a founding member of jazz/rock group Montreaux (Darol Anger, Mike Marshall), duoed with vocalist Teresa Trull (Trull/Higbie, Olivia Records), joined bluegrass trio Hills to Hollers (Laurie Lewis, Linda Tillery) and has recorded 18 solo/duo albums, plus contributed to 10 compilations that have sold in the millions. Her most recent solo offerings include her “Chillogy” of original piano tunes, instrumental holiday CD, “Solstice,” and newest sleep CD, “Dreams.”  “Barbara Higbie is one of the most exciting musicians I have heard, full of life and brilliant in her playing.”—S.F. Examiner/Chronicle