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Ruthie has performed for decades as a solo jazz stylist, with groups ranging from duos to big band, swing vocal trio the Sisters of Swing, also covering blues, folk and pop-rock styles in clubs, colleges, on radio and TV, tours, and performance halls in the US and Europe.
Ruthie has shared stage and bandstands with many musicians, including:
Gaye Tolan Hatfield, Brad Hatfield, Marty Ballou, Roberta Radley, Alex Ulanowsky, Herb Pomeroy, Mike Metheny, Dick Johnson, Gary Johnson, Tim Ray, Alain Mallet, Ben Wittman, Bill Brinkley, Bob Patton, Danny Morris, Ed Friedland, , Zoe Rahman, Pat Illingworth, Darcel Wilson, Kris Adams, Elyse Wilson, Alan Hall, Jun Saito, Marcello Pellitteri, Tommy Campbell, Ira Coleman, Scott Gilman, Rakalam Bob Moses, Butch Morris (Lawrence D. Morris), Armsted Christian, Nancy J. Shallman, Charles Kohlhase, Vincent Chancey, Jon Voight, Mimi Rabson, Dominique Eade, Jim Guttmann, Matt Dariau, Alessandro Fabbri, Andrea Michelutti, Peter Herbert, Mike Stanzilis, Reeves Gabrels, Randy Roos, Jon Wheatley, Marc Phaneuf, Marcia Guntzel-Feldman, Adam Feldman, Jonatha Brooke, Olga Román, Mili Bermejo, Teese Gohl, Jeff Halpern, Anita Hollander, Terry Wollman, Daniel Lavictoire, Bill Lyons, Jan Prostick, Cheryl Hodge, Ray Frisby, Gene White,
Don Foote, Jimmy Moser, Joe Bargar, John Pierce, John Lockwood, Wayne Krantz, Randy Roos, Gary Valente, D. Sharpe, Matt Marvuglio, Dave Burdett, Kenny Hadley, April Hall, Tom Hall, Ken Field, Gabrielle Agachiko, Harvey Wirht, Andy Ezrin Ed Randol, Annette Randol, Catherine Russell, Brian Flick, Brent Edstrom, Jon Damian, Bill Frisell, Vicente Lebron, Steve Prosser, Brian O’Connell, Rick McLaughlin, David Clark, Steve Olenick, Bertram Lehmann, Mark Shilansky, Cristi Catt, Daniela Tosic, Laurie Monahan, Jane Potter, Mike Rivard, Russ Gershon, Antonio Sánchez, John Medeski, Lynn Vadala, David Kikoski, Renato Chicco, Ratko Divjak, Misa Blam, Amy Elizah, Debbie Sullivan, Yumiko Matsuoka, Noah Harrington, Jess Kerber, Adrian Chabla, Dick Lupino, Matt Quinn, and many others.
Recent choral group performances include the Mystic Gospel Chorale 2020 under the direction of Jonathan Singleton, in March just before the pandemic hit.
A feature story about her in Venice’s Nuova Venezia praised her performance as “intimate…hot…electric…sincere.” And Boston jazz authority Ron della Chiesa says she is “…the epitome of musical diversity. Not only in style and song selection, but in arrangement and format as well.”
Trail of Tears by Lawence D. Morris: Tufts University.
Riverside Church, NYC Concert for the Peace Boat and the Hague Appeal for Peace. Organized by longtime peace activist Cora Weiss.
Ruthie Ristich Quartet Performance for the opening of the Stuart Davis Exhibit in the garden at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection during the Biennale, Venice Italy.
Toured western Yugoslavia and eastern Italy with Renato Chicco Trio. Played clubs and concerts in Bologna, Venice, Mestre, Trieste, Belluno, Ljubljana, Piran, Izola
Choir for Today performing at the Wall of Respect for Women Mural designed and painted by muralist Be Sargent in Davis Square, Somerville. Vocal arrangements by Ruthie.
Ordo Virtutum, Hildegard von Bingen’s sacred morality play written in 1151 at Congregational Church in Harvard Square. Directed and arranged by Cristi Catt and featuring the women’s vocal trio Tapestry, chorus, dancers from Cambridge Rindge and Latin School and actor Jim Loutzenhiser.
Four year residency at Ryles Jazz Club in Cambridge on Monday nights.
OpenAir Circus, a non-profit community based circus. Ruthie was the Artistic Director summer 1998 for a production of the environmental allegory The Lorax in Somerville, MA.
Concerts at Art on the Green at North Idaho College, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho