Trepanning Trio

Larchmere Porchfest is a neighborhood music festival featuring 30 diverse performers on 30 porches. Trepanning Trio is going to be one of them!  Trepanning Trio will be performing  at 4:15 at 2627 E. 128th Street.

This event is free and open to the public.  View the band listing and schedule at: http://larchmereporchfest.org/.  You can see photos from our 2011 Porchfest performance at Loganberry Books HERE and our 2010 performance HERE.  This event is a awesome.  We hope to see you there.

Trepanning Trio will be performing at “Discover Gordon Square Arts District Day” on Saturday, June 9, 2012.  We’ll be playing from 2:45 – 4:00 PM in the Parish Hall parking lot, next to Cleveland Public Theater (6205 Detroit Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44102).

This is a FREE outdoor event which runs from 10am – 10pm in the gordon Square Arts District (Detroit Avenue, W. 54th to W. 78th Street)

More info : http://discover.gordonsquare.org/

Eight members of Trepanning Trio are performing in the Freedom Jazz Collective this Friday.

The Freedom Jazz Collective is a Free Jazz experiment. An ongoing series of concerts, exploring mass improvisation. This performance will feature a cross-section of Cleveland’s avant-improv community. The musicians will be split into three separate sections by their instrument type (horns, drums/percussion, strings/keyboards) and each section will have a conductor that will introduce musical “events” into the section’s improvisation. These “events” will in turn influence the other sections and the overall sound of the larger mass improvisation. The sections will be prepared independently of each other but will perform together as one large orchestra for the first time the night of the concert. This experiment will be conducted by Cleveland musicians: Dan Wenninger, David Mansbach, and Kyle Farrell. The next concert will take place on Friday, May 25th at the Go Factory located at 1936 W. 96th off of Madison. 3rd floor. Use the door near the street just inside the fenced in parking lot. This event is free but donations to AllGoSigns will be graciously accepted. BYOB.

Opening the evening will be “Music of Part, Ligeti, Latkovich & Latkovich“, a solo piano performance by Trepanning Trio’s own Peggy Latkovich.  Doors open at 8:00PM.  Music starts at 9:00.

Photo by Matt Gladyszewski

Visible Voice Books is a wonderful Independent Book Store located in the Tremont neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio.  They offer the kind of bookstore experience that can’t be had at the big box stores.  They also a wine bar which features boutique wines from small, privately owned wineries.  On Saturday, May 19, 2012, they will be offering some Trepanning Trio on the side.  We will be performing from 7:30 – 10:00 PM as a part of their Garden Courtyard Music Series.

Visible Voice Books
1023 Kenilworth Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44113
(216) 961-0084

Infinite Number of Sounds Recording Company is hosting a party to welcome their newest artist Paul Stranahan and celebrate the release of his new CD entitled “Gong and Singing Bowl Improvisations.”

This CD release party will feature Paul Stranahan performing solo improvisations for gong and singing bowls, as well as performances by Infinite Number of Sounds Recording Company label mates Trepanning Trio (an instrumental, avant-chamber ensemble that performs and records using only classical, traditional and handmade instruments) and Oblique Orchestra, a free jazz ensemble that explores spontaneous, improvisational composition.

Trepanning Trio is playing at bela dubby in Lakewood, OH on Wednesday, April 18, 2012 with Not the Wind, Not the Flag, fluxmonkey, Orange Luna Temple, and Scheible-Smiley Duo.

Trepanning Trio will be represented by Brad Bolton (guitar, godbass, animal calls, baster, squeak toys, etc), Carmen Castaldi (drums and percussion), Brent Gummow (live edited video projection) hopefully Peggy Latkovich (hang, melodica, accordion, chimes, etc.) and me (double bass, pantree, melodica, etc.)

This is the first time the great Carmen Castaldi has ever performed with Trepanning Trio and the first time Brent has performed with Trepanning Trio since our album(s) release show at the The Beachland Ballroom and Tavern in 2009.

Facebook event page here.

This event begins promptly at 8:00 PM.

Donations are strongly encouraged.

Trepanning Trio performing “Help Me Up” at Lakewood City Limits. Video by Joel Elvery.

Chris Auerbach-Brown: Alto Saxophone
Tom Lempner: Soprano Saxophone
Kris Morron: Guzheng
Peggy Latkovich: Piano
Brad Bolton: Guitar
David Mansbach: Double Bass
Joel Elvery: Mandolin
Kathryn Ann Metz: Flute

Kathryn Metz‘s first Trepanning Trio performance was a trial by fire.  She brought a flute to an improvised set featuring klangenspiel, godbass, windup toy guts, hang, pan trees, bird calls, latex pig, saw blades, and a toy piano.  In response, Kathryn broke into song like Ethel Merman.  It was obviously meant to be.

Kathryn is the Education Instructor at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, OH where she teaches K-12 students on-site and through videoconferencing, co-produces public programs and is a SAGES fellow at Case Western Reserve University. Kathryn holds a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from The University of Texas at Austin. Her dissertation, “Music from Amazonia: Roots, Cosmopolitanism, and Regional Expression in Iquitos, Peru” (2010) is about pop music and regional identity in the urban Peruvian Amazon. A trained flutist, Kathryn has performed in bossa nova, Andean, Brazilian pop and Afro-pop groups in Austin, Texas and in salsa and cumbia bands in Iquitos, Peru. She has also played some bluegrass mandolin, was required to learn the drumset at the Rock Hall and studied some gyl in Ghana and suling in Bali. She is an active member of the Society for Ethnomusicology and the International Association for the Study of Popular Music-US. Kathryn has a chapter on tecnocumbia in an edited volume forthcoming from Duke University Press.

Joel Elvery first performed with Trepanning Trio on Friday the 13th (January 13, 2012) and is one of Cleveland Magazine’s Most Interesting People.

Joel plays mandolin, bass guitar, guitar, construction-derived percussion, and other small instruments and composes music that bridges jazz, funk, klezmer, and Ethiopian music. Freygish/hijaz is his favorite scale. He hails from Chicago and fondly remembers many shows by the Ken Vandermark Quartet, the NRG Ensemble, musicians affiliated with the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, and No Wave bands. He has played bass since junior high and started playing mandolin in 2000 while earning his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Maryland. He studied klezmer mandolin with Paul Oorts in Silver Spring, MD, but is largely self-taught. In addition to Trepanning Trio, he plays funky free jazz with Todd Masuda. Joel and his wife, Lynn Phares, host Mechanic Street House Concerts, an Americana/roots-rock music house concert series (www.mechanicstreetmusic.com). By day, he is an economist who specializes in data analysis and labor and urban economics.