Rio Nido is a jazz vocal trio that began as part of the Minneapolis West Bank music scene in the early 1970s.
[1] Rio Nido performed classic jazz and swing at many Minneapolis hot spots such as The Dakota, New Riverside Cafe and Coffeehouse Extempore.
In 1983 they released Hi Fly on Red House Records and featured Dave Karr on flute and tenor sax and Jimmy Hamilton on piano.
Lieberman was the guitarist for A Prairie Home Companion for 10 years, and became an award-winning writer and producer for radio, television, stage and screen.
With the re-release on CD of Hi Fly and I Like to Riff in 2007 by the Japanese label Bittersweet America, Johnson, Sparks and Lieberman performed a number of reunion shows.