tovio: Acoustic music from Denver, Colorado, United States

Influenced by ...

Serbian jazz, Rabequeiros, Rahsaan Rolandkirk, the music of little hamlets and tucked away nooks.

You'll love our music if you like ...

...spending the winter in one room of your house because you don't have enough money for heat., ...drinking cheap wine on a seaside after a dinner of bread and cheese., ...crumbling buildings, vacant cities, lots filled with ice cream trucks and pheasants.

You'll hate our music if you like ...

SUVs.

Favourite Bands / Artists

Boban Markovic', Eric Dilworth, The Universe Will get You Back, The Spanish Castles, Sneaky and the Rat, Deastro, My friends

Your 5 favourite songs

Malaika, Waltzing Matilda, The Book of Love, If you don't cry, Dream a Highway

Cities where we have played out

Denver, Detroit, Flint, Toledo, Chicago, New York, Belgrade/Beograd, Rome, Sieci, Florence, Trieste, Asheville, Nashville, Louisville, Cleveland, San Francisco, more...

Instruments in the band

Guitar, Accordion, Voice, Drums

What makes a great fan?

feeding the band

The last hotel we trashed

Couches

Sex, drugs and ....

Chickens, Urban Gardens, Rock Houses on Mountaintops

First name

Tovio

Last name

Roberts

Genre

Acoustic

Website

http://www.mysp...

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tovio's Biography
The Calliope of the Future, composed of Tovio on accordion and Kayne on glockenspiel is currently booking a European tour beginning the end of January in Dublin. Tovio was born into an Athapascan Indian village in Alaska, raised partially in rural Kenya, in an 8 story commune in Chicago, at a new age retreat center in BFE Michigan, and in a poisonous factory town close to Flint, Michigan. He has dropped out of college numerous times and has traveled extensively around the world playing shows, performing in circuses and busking. He writes songs about the fallacy of the American Dream, sea life, dinosaurs and other important topics. He is a resident artist at the Arcos Azules Gallery (http://www.arcosazules.org) in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver.
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tovio's Biography

The Calliope of the Future, composed of Tovio on accordion and Kayne on glockenspiel is currently booking a European tour beginning the end of January in Dublin.

Tovio was born into an Athapascan Indian village in Alaska, raised partially in rural Kenya, in an 8 story commune in Chicago, at a new age retreat center in BFE Michigan, and in a poisonous factory town close to Flint, Michigan. He has dropped out of college numerous times and has traveled extensively around the world playing shows, performing in circuses and busking. He writes songs about the fallacy of the American Dream, sea life, dinosaurs and other important topics.
He is a resident artist at the Arcos Azules Gallery (http://www.arcosazules.org) in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver.

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tovio's Latest Releases
Calliope of the Future Casa Del Vento Songs About Birds
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Playlists Containing tovio's Music
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