Chris Trinidad Trio at Sky Cafe every Saturday in April!

The Chris Trinidad Trio featuring Kevin Amos on drums and Paride Pignotti or David Lechuga on guitar plays Chris's songbook featuring tunes he has written over the past 20 years and found on Iridium Records releases Certain Times, Chant Triptych II, and Common Themes.

Filipino-Canadian and San Francisco Bay Area-based musician, teacher, and scholar Chris Trinidad has fallen into the place where everything is music.  Originally from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, his relationship with music grew through exploring various instruments beginning with the voice, then the piano, followed by the bass guitar, and finally the drum set with little detours in the world of percussion and forays with the guitar. 

Chris's formal education includes undergraduate training in Jazz Studies and Secondary Education, graduate study in the fields of Philosophy and Sociology of Music Education and Theological and Liturgical Studies, and doctoral work in Educational and Interdisciplinary Leadership.  

His compositions take inspiration from jazz musicians such as Ralph Towner, Pat Metheny, Brad Turner, and Chris Tarry as well as disparate genres including Cuban Timba, Gregorian Chant, and Progressive Rock.

All of these seemingly disparate disciplines, inspirations, and interests help to inform the music that he makes. He has discerned that the core purpose of his music is to explore the intersections of his identity and upbringing, while combining these into musical conversations with his current experiences and curious interests.  

He currently divides his time between creating music, developing high school students into compassionate human beings, and working on defeating his addiction to improvising excessively in the saddest of all keys ... D minor. 

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The Sky Cafe is located in South San Francisco’s burgeoning cozy, family-friendly yet globally sophisticated Grand Ave. The Sky Cafe specializes in vegan, organic, non-GMO cuisine, featuring food from around the world as well as live music and special events.

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