Chris Trapper + Emily Jeanne Brown

Name: Chris Trapper + Emily Jeanne Brown
Start: 2025-05-02T20:00:00-05:00
Location: 2262 Winnebago St, Madison, WI, United States, Wisconsin 53704

Schedule

Fri, 02 May, 2025 at 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

2262 Winnebago St, Madison, WI, United States, Wisconsin 53704 | Madison, WI

Doors 7PM / Show 8PM
Seated show
$25ADV / $30DOS

For someone who’s been on the road for more than 150 dates a year for the past 15 years, Chris Trapper appears to have taken his unsolicited break from touring pretty well. In between weekly livestreams on Facebook & Instagram, Trapper also performed in his fan's backyards across the country all summer long during his “Socially Distanced Backyardapalooza”. To top it all off, Chris entered a studio near his home in Boston, MA to record his new album “Cold Water Waltz”.
“Recording an album in normal times is an interesting experience, so imagine creating new music during a global pandemic. Although I worked intensely with the producers (Brad Young and Jason Meeker) in their respective studios, I could rest assured because as most musicians know; audio engineers social distanced before it was trending.”
The album is a mostly stripped-down affair, with the focus squarely on Trapper’s achingly honest lyrics, honeyed tenor and delicate fingerpicking. The record features Boston legends Duke Levine (Aimee Man, Peter Wolf) & Jim Prescott (G Love & Special Sauce) as well as Matt Beck (Matchbox Twenty, Rod Stewart) & even a co-write with Rob Thomas.
“I wrote most of these songs when I was opening for Rob over the summer of 2019. There were lots of days off then and admittedly, it was easy to get inspired to write new songs after witnessing so many thousands of people psyched to hear his songs every night. Rob & I wrote the song “Clear” together and he is truly the coolest guy to co-write with as he is all about the creative process and never about the ego.”

The New York Times has called his work “classic pop perfection.”
"His humble sense of humility is what makes Trapper’s songs so strong... He makes you feel like you are the person he’s singing about.” Popdose
Emily Jeanne Brown’s music speaks to the crossing of thresholds: from childhood to adulthood, from west to east coast, from a pre- to a post-pandemic world. A lifelong singer trained as a Shakespearean actor, Brown began her foray into recording during quarantine, with a minimal but visceral cover of Bruce Springsteen’s “I’m on fire,” which quickly garnered tens of thousands of streams. Since then, she has released a string of original singles that are “a natural fit with the current movement of women in indie-folk pop [boygenius, Maggie Rogers, Fiona Apple, HAIM, Phoebe Bridgers, Sharon Van Etten or even Taylor Swift’s latest work]” (Aptly Journal). Her 3-song EP, “Nina,” was recently released by YouTooCanWoo’s singer/songwriter imprint, Sunken Living Room, co-written and produced by Deidre Muro (Deidre and the Dark, Violet Sands, Savoir Adore).