Event

An Evening With Uncle Bonsai

Uncle Bonsai returns to Tacoma for a special one-night-only performance at the beautiful Pythian Temple Hall. This show, which starts at 8:00 PM, will feature old songs, new songs, "doug" songs, and songs from their upcoming release, "The Grim Parade."

Uncle Bonsai's soaring and intricate vocal harmonies and biting humor deliver poignantly unflinching portrayals of life, love, and a guy named Doug. The trio's influences range from the Beatles to Stephen Sondheim. Some say Zappa cross-bred with Peter, Paul and Mary. Loudon Wainright III, the Roches. Three tightly tiered and adhered voices, acoustic guitar. That's it. Nearly naked folk-pop for everyone.

Bonsai's latest material focuses on the passing of time, the passing of genes, and the passing of pets -- the truth of everything seemingly
buried somewhere under the family tree.