Theresa Terzonie

During the event “Pop op de kaap” in Rotterdam I watched a performance of Theresa Terzonie in Cafè De Ouwehoer. What impressed me the most was the energy she had during the whole performance. It was one of the last performance of the festival and all the people around were quite tired. She managed to spread the last and very powerful “energy boost” to the audience. Her attention to detail was also very good, especially in terms of stage presence. In some moments of the performance she hypnotized me and left me in some way “paralysed”.

A little while ago, Theresa was a guest in my radio show. What a fantastic woman and what a great voice! Wow, like a blackbird on an early spring morning. I interviewed her and she has sung 4 songs. Only her voice and her guitar. It was a beautiful acoustic set that I still think about regularly. And of course Theresa herself: a real sweetheart.

My experience, as a guitar player, working with Theresa has been delightful and satisfying. Theresa always has a positive attitude and is fun to work with. She comes prepared to the rehearsal and has no problem composing guitar, vocal & backing vocals line & melodies on the spot. She is open minded and adaptative to change. She has no problem putting the music on tracks that's completely the other way than she intended. Above all she is a real song writing machine on her own, every rehearsal she comes with new ideas, new songs etc. I can only recommend working with her as I have learned a lot from her myself. To put myself out of my musical comfort zone in the process of creating original music. Overall it was a very pleasant and gratifying experience to work & create music with Theresa! I hope to be able to work with her again in the future.

I’ve managed to catch Tree twice now in the limited time I’ve seen her on the circuit, the first time I was greeted with a solo performance, just Theresa by herself with an acoustic set. As soon as she showed the crowd her prowess on the guitar alone, the room was fixated, when those soulful vocals kicked through I was amazed I’d never heard of or seen this artist on the circuit before. The second time I managed to catch Tree at a show was when she had full band accompaniment. Now I instantly recognised parts of these songs before from the solo set but arranged for full band now, these songs took on another form. I honestly couldn’t pick which arrangement I liked best, as I’m more attuned to and have a preference for full band style playing this was a shock to me. Tree brings that folk style of writing with a more heavy rock/metal kind of deliverance in attitude, think Stevie Knicks crossed with Ann Wilson from Heart. Thoroughly enjoyed watching her perform and if I knew a show of her was coming my way, I would mark it in my calendar.

Theresa Terzonie is an extremely hard working individual whose performance at the 02 Academy, Centre Stage was striking and a night to remember. It was my favourite performance of Tree's and I will not forget that evening.