Trapper Schoepp

$15 ($10 adv.).

media release: “Story songs that explore and explode the conventions of rock and roll” -PBS

“Rootsy, cinematic rock that charms as it soars” -NPR Music

“Charming 100% Americana opus” -Rolling Stone France

“A master storyteller” -Huffington Post

“What’s most important to me is to be a link in the chain of folk singers before and after my time,” Trapper Schoepp says in light of his forthcoming album, Siren Songs. Recorded at Johnny Cash’s Cash Cabin in Hendersonville, TN, Trapper continues down the trail trod by his musical heroes. In 2019, the Milwaukee singer-songwriter published a long lost song with Bob Dylan called “On, Wisconsin” – making him the youngest musician to share a co-writing credit with the Nobel Prize laureate. The song led to a #1 trending article in Rolling Stone and over a hundred tour dates worldwide.

Most recently, Trapper is featured on the Siren Songs album cover posing in the same pond where Johnny Cash would read and dispose of letters sent to him by Bob Dylan, protecting a private correspondence and kinship that started in the sixties. At these storied grounds, Trapper recorded his strongest collection of songs steeped in traditional American and Irish folk music – aided by producers John Jackson (Jayhawks, Ray Davies) and Patrick Sansone (Wilco).

Starting off the evening is Brother Galen, a writer and performer who began writing music and songs in Greenwich Village after working on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico for two years. Before his debut album On The Way (Pre Raphaelite Records, 2021) Galen toured and performed under various names. In music and film he has worked with Dua Lipa, D. Ozi, Mark Barry (Lord Huron) and filmmaker Rex Miller among others.