Rose Ridge Trio @ The Mission
ROSE RIDGE
Jenny Babcock – Vocals
Tracy Blase – Guitar/Vocals
A Wisconsin boy and Mississippi girl, Rose Ridge refers to their collaboration as running with scissors, making and faking their favorite tunes. Tracy started picking at age five, returning to the stage in 2012 after 25 years away from public performances. Jenny began performing classical works as a child, obtaining a degree in Music Theory & Composition. While raising her family, she’s played in a couple of local projects and in 2009 opened a music venue. With Tracy’s encouragement, Jenny returned to the stage in 2012. Whether performing their own creations or putting a new spin on another artist’s song, playing in front of folks continues to fuel the fire. Doing what ya love with somebody ya love is as good as it gets.
PAUL LAEMMLI
Paul Laemmli has performed with Rose Ridge since 2015. Raised throughout Mid-Missouri, Paul grew up swimming in the deep end of a family of musicians. Paul honed his craft around the wood stove at the family cabin, in churches, and in the blues clubs of Kansas City and Springfield, MO. While playing all over the great state of Missouri, he earned a music degree and continues to earn a reputation for connecting people with story songs and skillful guitar work. Heavily influenced by the Springfield Sound and the blues scene in Kansas City, Paul currently resides near his grandparent’s home in Jefferson City, Missouri where you can find him playing his red Fender Stratocaster wherever people gather to share life, love, and music.
While mostly booking shows in the state of Missouri, the duo does travel out of state occasionally, and is available for private events. For their good fortune, since 2012 a diverse array of artist continue to cross paths with Rose Ridge. This provides opportunities for the duo to grow into a trio, add a full rhythm section, go electric and/or sprinkle in a pedal steel, upright bass, fiddle or mandolin from time to time.
