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Join Trapper Schoepp Trio as they return from a month of touring Europe!

Tuesday, April 2nd 2024.  Doors at 6:30pm, Music at 7:30pm. $15

Trapper Schoepp is an American singer-songwriter based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. After releasing two albums in his teens, Schoepp signed with SideOneDummy Records and released Run, Engine, Run (2012) as Trapper Schoepp & the Shades. In 2016, he signed with Xtra Mile Recordings and released albums under his own name: Rangers & Valentines (2016), Bay Beach Amusement Park (2017), and Primetime Illusion (2019).  On Primetime Illusion, he wrote music and additional lyrics to the unfinished Bob Dylan song “On, Wisconsin”, originally written in 1961. Sharing a co-writing credit with Dylan, Schoepp recorded the song at Wauwatosa’s  Wire & Vice studio. The album was produced by Patrick Sansone of Wilco. The song led to a #1 trending article in Rolling Stone and over a hundred tour dates worldwide.

Schoepp returned to the studio and recorded May Day, which was released May 21, 2021 on Grand Phony records.[19] The additional downtime due to the pandemic also meant he could finetune his piano skills, which were featured for the first time on this album.[20] The album title comes from the pagan origins of May Day, with Schoepp explaining, “On May Day, I use the natural world as a motif because I feel a strong connection to it. Nature is something real that I can feel, see, smell and touch, and it’s a place where I’ve found comfort in these times.

In 2023 Schoepp set out to record his latest album, this time at Johnny Cash’s Cash Cabin in Hendersonville, TN. Trapper continues down the trail trod by his musical heroes with Siren Songs, which is an apt title for an album filled with folklore and nautical imagery. In Greek mythology, sirens are enchanting half-bird maidens who sing to entice sailors off their ships, and ultimately to their doom. Sirens are seen across the album and in works that inspire Schoepp, most notably in the Coen Brothers’ O’Brother Where Art Thou. In a fortunate stroke of serendipity, Trapper is joined on two tracks by Sarah Peasall McGuffey, who famously lent her vocal talents to the aforementioned film. Trapper sings alongside his brother and bassist, Tanner Schoepp, with characteristic blood harmony, the unique blend of sibling singers.

Join Trapper Schoepp Trio as they return from a month of touring Europe!

Tuesday, April 2nd 2024.  Doors at 6:30pm, Music at 7:30pm. $15

$15

April 2 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

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