Current Project: After the success of the 2006 self-titled EP, the Grace Woods Trio released their full-length album, “Metaphoreality” on 1/27/08. The 13 song project takes you to the Trio’s poetic, imaginary world where bass grooves and melodic riffs still exist in Pop music. Most songs start as lyrics and evolve into elaborate, collaborative arrangements. Read on to learn how GWT became a musical family.

Band Creation: The Grace Woods Trio, signified by the ninja star of 3 intersecting Gs, came to be in the magical first two weeks of February 2006. Grace Woods had written a slew of introspective tunes, which she was performing regularly at open mics. Joe Hickey, the stylisticly unique bassist and vocally gifted singer-songwriter, heard Grace perform “Paper Pillows” at the Blakes open mic in Berkeley and decided then and there that he had to be a part of the project. In the same two weeks a certain Berkeley-born drummer, Whitney Jacobson, began relentlessly “myspacing” Grace with the insistence that she needed his drumming skills. Persistence paid off and the two have been living together amidst a plethora of instruments ever since. The Trio had their first show two weeks after that and have since been inseparable. With more and more collaboration and the hope of getting to know more people who care about original, melodic music, the Grace Woods Trio is determined to make a living out of the rollercoaster ride that is the music business.