WHO WE ARE
LAURA MORRISON: Keyboard & Vocals
From the first time Laura Morrison saw and heard music being performed in church, she was bitten. After begging for piano lessons beginning at age three, she finally began learning at age five, practicing on table tops until her parents presented her with a piano when she was eight. She performed in her first adult concert at age nine, playing Mozart's Sonata No. 1 from memory. Her influences were varied from Mozart (of course) to Dan Fogelberg whose music sound tracked her decision and move from Ohio to Aspen. Since then, she has shared the stage with John Denver at the Wheeler Opera House and Deaf Camp Picnic and many other local favorites including Haden Gregg, Bobby Mason, Jimmy Dykann, John Zajichek, Brian Savage, and Jan Garrett. Along with Suzanne Paris and the late Chris Cox, she opened for Stephen Stills, also at the Wheeler Opera House in Aspen. Other influences along the way have been Bonnie Raitt, Linda Ronstadt, Ricki Lee Jones, Bruce Cockburn, Jackson Brown, Bruce Hornsby, CSNY, The Beatles, Eva Cassidy, Beethoven, Rachmaninoff and always, the constant music of the majestic mountains, rivers and streams of the Roaring Fork Valley,
TONICE JONES: Guitar, Keyboard & Vocals
Tonice Jones was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He played horns in school band from elementary until graduating high school. However Tonice always had an affinity for guitar. His high school band teacher taught him some chords on the piano, which began his understanding of keyboards, he also took three years of music theory in school from Gene Osburn. At age 20 Tonice began a serious pursuit of guitar. He attended a guitar seminar with jazz legend Joe Pass. A year later he was fortunate enough to meet and spend an hour with guitar virtuoso Al Dimeola one on one. Tonice moved to Boulder, Colorado in the late 70’s and eventually migrated to western Colorado. He has shared the stage with The New Grass Revival, Highway 101, Tommy James and the Shondells, and The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. He also likes to mention he performed for and met Kevin Costner and had the chance to spend an afternoon with Gerry Beckley of the band America. Tonice also plays slide guitar and believes the greatest electric guitar player of all time is Jeff Beck. Tonice has performed twice at Aspen’s Wheeler Opera House.
STEVE FREDERICKS: Bass & Vocals
Steve Fredericks (Legersky) hails from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He has been in several music projects in Aspen and the Roaring Fork Valley from the 1980's to the present. He has appeared several times at the Wheeler Opera House in Aspen, and has been on stage at Two Rivers Park in Glenwood Springs, opening for New Grass Revival. In the early 1990’s he played with the well-known Pittsburgh oldies band Satin and the internationally acclaimed doo wop band The Marcels "Blue Moon" (1961), featuring Freddy “The Bassman” Johnson.
RICK ALLOESE: Guitar & Vocals
Rick has been involved in music for over thirty years playing in the mountain towns of western Colorado including Vail, Glenwood Springs, Carbondale, and Aspen. He was instrumental in the construction of the Stoney Ridge Pavillion in Silt Colorado where he was the opening act for Highway 101 and The Fabulous Thunderbirds.