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The Repercussionists:
• Keyboardist Ed Rashed has been writing, arranging, playing, and singing professionally since the 1960s, and has performed on stages up and down the East Coast and on both sides of the Atlantic. Aside from ((((The Repercussions)))), he currently performs with Band of Brothers, funk band Wayz & Means, and is Music Director at Saint Thomas More Church in Narragansett, RI. Former bands include Blueswagon, Ragwagon, Tanoose, Contact, The Shamblers, Billy and the Kids, Bop-A-Gon, The Wanderers, and Kingsnake. Ed enjoyed a 20 year run with RI's unique statewide school dance program, A Chance to Dance, working as music director, class musician, and pit band member for the annual shows at Providence Performing Arts Center. He has written and directed music for more than twenty theatrical productions with Trinity Rep, Alias Stage, The RI Shakespeare Theater and others, has had his songs performed and recorded by several artists, and his orchestral compositions performed in concert. He has been a session player on several recording projects including Grammy Award winning artist Bill Harley's Big Big World, and has released two CDs of his own: Big Book Of Love and Wrong Side Of The Door. Ed hasn't decided what he wants to be when he grows up. • Guitarist Nick Smith, aka Nicky The Thumb, has also been writing and performing music since the 1960s, and although his paths have crossed with Ed's and Jack's along the way, this is the first time the three have collaborated on a project. Nick started with folk, blues and rock, and has continually expanded his repertoire. He plays and sings all the major musical genres, including jazz, classical, gospel, pop, standards and show tunes, country, Celtic and “old-timey music.” Current projects outside of ((((The Repercussions)))) include his jazz group The Patterson Smith Trio, and a classical act, The Ligia & Nick Guitar Duo. He also sits in occasionally with the rock ensemble Nasty Habits. Nick was a founder of the legendary Pop-Rock band Nicky & The Triangles, for which he wrote and collaborated on a collection of very catchy tunes. Nick is also an alumnus of the bands Slippery Elm, Mirage, The Beatniks and 9-1-1. An accomplished and award winning surfer, he is the only known human being who can simultaneously whistle "The Halleluia Chorus," and hum "Louie Louie" while riding a wave. • Bassist Bill Marrocco, alias Sonny Paradise, is another 40+ year veteran of the Southeastern New England music scene, and ((((The Repercussions)))) is his second musical collaboration with Ed Rashed. He is a founding member of Range of Motion and an alumnus of The Boys of Summer, Crazy Chester, and the Ken Lyon Band. He has shared the stage with such musicians as Molly Hatchett, Ian Hunter, and the Mamas and the Papas, as well as local favorite John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band. Bill is also a ceramics artist who has displayed at The Smithsonian. He likes nothing better than staying at home cooking gourmet Italian, and sipping fine wine. • Drummer Jack "Jaws" Ezikovich, also a well known veteran of the local and national music scene, has worked with Ed many times over the years in noted local bands and recording projects, including laying down most of the drum tracks for Ed's CDs. He currently drives the beat of the nationally acclaimed Cajun band Magnolia, recording and performing at dances and festivals throughout the US and Canada, and performs regularly with Louisiana legends Mark and Ann Savoy, Jesse Lege and Ed Poullard during their Northeast tours. Jack's former bands include Nova, Fat Man Wilson and the Sliders, The Other Half, Tanoose, The Shamblers, Bop-A-Gon, OK Chorale and The Ravens. Jack claims to have made "literally hundreds of dollars" in his 40 year musical career.
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