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CONCERT: Medicine Truck is the Pacific Northwest’s premier a cappella vocal improvisation trio, and a collision of creative genius! Debby Boland Watt, Christian Swenson and Travis Johnson take their singing seriously, knowing that sound is for the sculpting. These three incredible vocalists will expand what you know about a cappella music, passing you on the turns, running over what ails you and then flooring it when you think they just gotta be outta gas! Medicine Truck invites you to wonder, laugh, and then join them.
"Medicine Truck is sometimes poignant, at times deeply moving and often hilarious, as each song is a true original and completely unrehearsed. Truck'in with Christian and Travis has been a marvelous trip." (Debby)
“Singing with Debby and Travis is like having your cake and eating it too! I love their fearlessness, and I’ve never had such good company as down in the deep end with Travis and then off in the weird worlds Debby inhabits!” (Christian)
“Singing with Medicine Truck is such a joy! It's not every day that you get to sing with such high caliber vocalists that are so down to earth and happen to be wonderful human beings.” (Travis)
“I’m the plow, I’m the fire starter, and I’m going deep, looking for people to play with me.”
Debby Boland Watt is an improvisational vocal and performance artist, composer, circle singing facilitator and photographer. Presently teaching voice and improvisational singing from Seattle to Tacoma, her diverse background includes classical voice, many years of performing in North American and Europe, an MFA degree in improvisation from Goddard College, a Bachelor’s in Music, Vocal Jazz. from Cornish College of the Arts, and improvisational study and performance with Bobby McFerrin, Rhiannon, Meredith Monk and Pauline Oliveros.
“I wish to play my bodyvoice as Jimi Hendrix played his guitar.” Christian Swenson has an extensive background in dance, mime, voice and improvisation, and is known for his pioneering work in a form he calls
"Human Jazz”, an improvised fusion of singing, acting, and dancing. His work as a solo performer and teacher has taken him to many schools and communities throughout North America, Asia and Europe. Christian has been recipient of several fellowships and is on the Theater Faculty at Seattle University.
“For me it is so important not to leave this earth with music still in us.” Travis Johnson is an Afro roots folk bass singer, improviser, visual artist, photographer, poet and speaker. For the past 23 years, he has had the honor of singing sacred historical songs throughout the U.S. and abroad and he is presently engaged in a solo tour through the West Coast. His diverse musical influences begin with his father, Travis L Johnson, and include Herbert Clay, Robert Sherman, William Ray, Harry Belafonte, Nat King Cole, George Pendergrass, Robert C. Guy, Ben Harper, and Bobby McFerrin.
"Medicine Truck is sometimes poignant, at times deeply moving and often hilarious, as each song is a true original and completely unrehearsed. Truck'in with Christian and Travis has been a marvelous trip." (Debby)
“Singing with Debby and Travis is like having your cake and eating it too! I love their fearlessness, and I’ve never had such good company as down in the deep end with Travis and then off in the weird worlds Debby inhabits!” (Christian)
“Singing with Medicine Truck is such a joy! It's not every day that you get to sing with such high caliber vocalists that are so down to earth and happen to be wonderful human beings.” (Travis)
“I’m the plow, I’m the fire starter, and I’m going deep, looking for people to play with me.”
Debby Boland Watt is an improvisational vocal and performance artist, composer, circle singing facilitator and photographer. Presently teaching voice and improvisational singing from Seattle to Tacoma, her diverse background includes classical voice, many years of performing in North American and Europe, an MFA degree in improvisation from Goddard College, a Bachelor’s in Music, Vocal Jazz. from Cornish College of the Arts, and improvisational study and performance with Bobby McFerrin, Rhiannon, Meredith Monk and Pauline Oliveros.
“I wish to play my bodyvoice as Jimi Hendrix played his guitar.” Christian Swenson has an extensive background in dance, mime, voice and improvisation, and is known for his pioneering work in a form he calls
"Human Jazz”, an improvised fusion of singing, acting, and dancing. His work as a solo performer and teacher has taken him to many schools and communities throughout North America, Asia and Europe. Christian has been recipient of several fellowships and is on the Theater Faculty at Seattle University.
“For me it is so important not to leave this earth with music still in us.” Travis Johnson is an Afro roots folk bass singer, improviser, visual artist, photographer, poet and speaker. For the past 23 years, he has had the honor of singing sacred historical songs throughout the U.S. and abroad and he is presently engaged in a solo tour through the West Coast. His diverse musical influences begin with his father, Travis L Johnson, and include Herbert Clay, Robert Sherman, William Ray, Harry Belafonte, Nat King Cole, George Pendergrass, Robert C. Guy, Ben Harper, and Bobby McFerrin.