Small room, giant sounds at Collage, San Pedro
by Garrick Rawlings “We opened in 2020 with Victor Krummenacher (co-founder of Camper Van Beethoven) and (composer/multi instrumentalist) Eugene Chadbourne. It was utterly fantastic. We were really off to a running start. Two days later the pandemic shut down everything,” Richard Foss said of Collage: A Place For Arts and Culture, an imaginative performance venue he co-founded in San Pedro. Despite the traumatic shut down, Collage reopened in similarly impressive fashion. “We re-opened in 2021 with cabaret singer Christina Linhardt. She told me, ‘I’m bringing along my favorite pianist Bryan Pezzone.’” I look him up and find his most recent show was a solo Gershwin performance in Disney Hall. What is he doing in a 49-seat space in San Pedro? The answer is, anything he wants. “We’re giving artists creative freedom, inviting them to bring their side gigs and experimental stuff, which attracts the passionate music lovers.” Argentine pianist Julieta Iglesias performs compositions by Astor Piazzolla at Collage on April 7. When Piazzolla performed the compositions they so offended tango purists that they chased him from the stage. Photo courtesy of Silvia Askenazi. “Tonight (April, 7…
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