Duo Quartet may sound like a contradiction—but the music is anything but. Raucous ballads, mellow melodies, and cajon-driven foot stompers. It’s a festival of sound every time they take the stage.

The truth is this is a band that wasn’t supposed happen. It started with four old friends thinking, ‘hey, let’s do a couple of shows as a double-bill’: Nina Gerber and Chris Webster in concert with The Pam & Jeri Show, the inimitable Pam Delgado and indomitable Jeri Jones of Blame Sally. Given that all four women already had stellar reputations in the greater Bay Area, it wasn’t hard to book some high-profile venues followed by full houses.

Chris and Pam sing most of the leads – Chris often expertly playing a washboard while Pam drives the band with her percussion. But if this were a boxing ring, you’d see coming in from opposite corners the dueling energy of Jeri and Nina egging each other on with their guitar-Goddestry – whipping the band and the audience into a veritable frenzy.

With a beautiful set of original music mixed with surprisingly original takes on a few choice covers, Duo Quartet brings to the stage a band that is greater than the sum of its already impressive parts.

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