The River's Voice
Meet Trish and Richard.
Strikingly exceptional songwriters, musicians and leaders in their own right, Trish and Richard Bruxvoort Colligan join hands as The River's Voice. Their unique fusion in music, life, and love brings to the world a never-ending flow of inspired gifts. Known for their depth of wisdom, playful spirits, and fully engaged presence, you might say they are quite the pair.
The couple tours as professional musicians, songwriters and retreat leaders, bringing with them their passion for the human journey and the mystery of the spiritual life. Together with their son Sam, they live in an 1880s era house in the hills of Strawberry Point, Iowa with each other, three crazy cats, and a sweet, grandmotherly dog.
Musically, Trish's piano and Richard's acoustic guitar lend a folk-influenced backdrop to their smooth vocal harmonies. Think James Taylor, Sarah McLachlan, or The Swell Season and you're close.
A River's Voice concert is full of stories, laughter, and music for young and old. River's Voice retreats and workshops are sometimes playful, sometimes contemplative, integrating mind, body and spirit. In music and in leadership, Trish and Richard bring a quality of wonder, gratitude and reverence for what's alive and awakening.
The duo has published over a dozen CDs between them over the past ten years.
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The marriage of Trish and Richard Bruxvoort Colligan is more than just that of a husband and wife. It is the union of two adventuring souls inspired to create music that nourishes the spirit, promotes true vision, and reveals grace within the listener.
Their collective voice is simultaneously powerful and gentle, with songs that rise from the wellspring of their passion for the human journey and the mystery of the spiritual life. The values of compassion, wisdom and beauty are more than just fancy little things to sing about; they are the very ground from which their lives and art take root.
Partners in life, love and all things creative, Trish and Richard bring their individual tastes and flavors to the soup pot of their unique blend. Here they welcome in a third, unnamed but equally vital essence that stirs up their presence in to a single, harmonious force of goodness and nourishment for all.
Come in. Sit at the table and feast. If you listen, you just might find they're singing your song.
