Tony Trischka’s Holiday Show featuring Tim Eriksen, with Jared Engel, Hannah Read, and Sean Trischka

Name: Tony Trischka’s Holiday Show featuring Tim Eriksen, with Jared Engel, Hannah Read, and Sean Trischka
Start: 2024-12-12T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-12-12T21:00:00-05:00
Location: Godfrey Daniels

Schedule

Thu Dec 12 2024 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Godfrey Daniels | Bethlehem, PA

Tony Trischka hosts a banjo-driven celebration of the season where he turns his considerable melodic inventiveness loose on Bluegrass and Americana music for the holidays! Featuring fellow longtime cohort musician, Tim Eriksen, and world-class Santa impersonators and musicians Jared Engel, Hannah Read, and Sean Trischka. A diverse, highly textural seasonal collection, Trischka also revels in songs long forgotten and little known. Truly a sumptuous feast for the ears presented as only Tony Trischka can.
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Tony Trischka
tonytrischka.com
Tony Trischka is a Grammy-nominated banjo player, songwriter, and educator. He is considered one of the pioneers of progressive bluegrass music. Trischka has released over 30 albums and has won numerous awards, including the International Bluegrass Music Award for Banjo Player of the Year in 2007. He is also a prolific teacher and has written several books and DVDs on banjo playing.
Trischka was born in Syracuse, New York, in 1949. He began playing the banjo at the age of 12 and quickly became a proficient player. In the early 1970s, he moved to New York City and began playing with some of the leading figures in the bluegrass scene, including Béla Fleck and Steve Martin.
Trischka is a highly respected figure in the bluegrass world. He is considered one of the most innovative and influential banjo players of all time. He is a pioneer of progressive bluegrass music and his work has helped to expand the boundaries of the genre. He is a true legend of bluegrass music and his legacy will continue to inspire musicians for generations to come.
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Tim Eriksen
timeriksenmusic.com
Tim Eriksen is acclaimed for transforming American tradition with his startling interpretations of old ballads, love songs, shape-note gospel and dance tunes from New England and Southern Appalachia. He combines hair-raising vocals with inventive accompaniment on banjo, fiddle, guitar and bajo sexto – a twelve string Mexican acoustic bass – creating a distinctive hardcore Americana sound that ranges from the bare bones of solo unaccompanied singing on Soul of the January Hills through the stripped-down voice and bajo sexto Christmas album Star in the East to the lush, multi-layered arrangements on Josh Billings Voyage, an album of northern roots American music from the imaginary village of Pumpkintown.
Eriksen’s own compositions, which NetRhythms UK described as “strange and original works,” have been featured in films like the Billy Bob Thornton vehicle Chrystal and the upcoming documentary Behold the Earth. Eriksen’s other notable work has included extensive contributions to Anthony Minghella’s 2004 Oscar-winning film Cold Mountain as well as collaborations ranging from hardcore punk and Bosnian pop to symphony orchestra, duo work with Eliza Carthy and the 2010 Grammy-nominated album Across the Divide with Afro-Cuban world-jazz pianist Omar Sosa. In 2018 his song I Wish The Wars Were All Over was chosen by Joan Baez as her last recorded musical statement, and 2019 saw the release of a duet with Esma Redžepova, “the queen of Romani music and dance.”
The former frontman of the prophetic groups Cordelia’s Dad (folk-noise), Northampton Harmony (shape-note quartet) and Žabe i Babe (Bosnian folk and pop), Tim Eriksen is the only musician to have shared the stage with both Kurt Cobain and Doc Watson, and his media appearances have ranged from Prairie Home Companion to the Academy Awards. Having graduated from early shows at punk mecca CBGB, Tim’s performances have included his Carnegie Hall debut as a soloist in Even Chambers’ symphonic work “The Old Burying Ground” and two week-long stints at the Blue Note Jazz Club with Omar Sosa. In the studio, he has worked with legendary producers and engineers including Joe Boyd, T-Bone Burnett and Steve Albini.
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Jared Engel
jaredengel.com
Jared Engel is a versatile multi-instrumentalist and a staple of the New York City music scene for over 20 years, known for playing upright bass, bass guitar, tuba, and banjo. A Berklee College of Music alum, Jared moved to NYC in 2004 and has since performed with artists like Abigail Washburn, Béla Fleck, and Tony Trischka. He is a long-time house bassist at Mona’s bar in the East Village and founder of the social-justice-oriented 3 Million Majority Marching Band. Jared has performed at major jazz venues like The Village Vanguard and Blue Note and at top Bluegrass festivals including Telluride and Greyfox. In addition to his musical career, he is the commissioner of the NYC Musicians Baseball League, which he co-founded in 2020.
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Hannah Read
hannahread.com
Hannah Read is an award-winning multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and composer from Scotland, now based in Northern California. Known for her versatility on fiddle and guitar, she excels in both Appalachian old-time music and original compositions. Her latest album, The Fungi Sessions Vol. 1 (2023), is a fungi-inspired instrumental work commissioned by Edinburgh University as a tribute to her late father, renowned mycologist Nick Read. Hannah’s 2022 album, Cross The Rolling Water, received critical praise for its blend of old-time music, while her debut solo album, Way Out I’ll Wander (2018), showcased her songwriting and musicianship. A graduate of Berklee College of Music, she has performed with artists like Sarah Jarosz, Jefferson Hamer, and Cassandra Jenkins, and contributed to the award-winning Songs of Separation project. An experienced instructor, Hannah teaches internationally and continues to explore diverse musical collaborations.
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Sean Trischka
seantrischka.com
Playing a wide range of styles, from folk to pop to heavy metal, drummer-singer-songwriter Sean Trischka tours nationally and internationally with many artists, including Carsie Blanton, Oh Pep!, The Stash Band, and Mipso. He has performed with a wide array of musicians including Oteil Burbridge (Dead & Company), Billy Strings, Mike Gordon (Phish), Sarah Jarosz, and members of Lake Street Dive. Sean has released two albums: The Shuffle (2015) and Of Course! (2018), both to critical acclaim. His upcoming EP, entitled Friendship, will be released in June 2022 with an accompanying video album.