Published May 5, 2010
Terry T. Trio
7 p.m. every Wed., Mattison’s City Grille, 1 N. Lemon Ave., Sarasota, 330-0440 or mattisons.com; 6-9 p.m. every Tues., Ceviche, 1216 First St., Sarasota, 952-1036 or ceviche.com.
Terry Pinkham’s son Josh didn’t just decide to walk in her and her husband Jeff’s musical footsteps. He chose to perform alongside his parents almost every evening as the mandolinist/guitarist for the Terry T. Trio, also known as the Pinkham Family Band.
Terry and Jeff have been performing around the Tampa Bay area since they married over 26 years ago. Terry came from a musical family and grew up singing harmony with her mom while her dad strummed tenor guitar. Her grandfather Benny Thomasson is credited as a huge influence on the Texas fiddling scene; she would find herself singing at fiddling contests on the weekends growing up. Jeff plays guitar and fretted electric violin in the trio but his primary instrument was always mandolin, which he played on Bertie Higgins’ number-one Billboard-charting hit song “Key Largo†in 1982. (more…)