Jake Schepps
Happy Birthday Béla Bartók!
In celebration of Bela Bartok's 131st birthday, An Evening in the Village: the Music of Bela Bartok will be available for free download all weekend (facebook link). Please spread the word and let any and all know that for 3 days only (March 23, 24, & 25) you can download the entire album with bonus tracks for the big fat price of $0.00. Bandcamp does offer the option to pay something if you are so inclined, and you can buy a physical copy for only $10. If you buy two Bartok CD's you get a free Ten Thousand Leaves.
NPR Tiny Desk Concert
NPR Music's Tiny Desk Concert
Lots of new press
We are just off the Expedition Quartet CD release tour, traveling from Cambridge, Mass to lexington Kentucky, and then back to some hometown shows in Colorado. We had a total blast, and the material really started to grow in new and surprising ways over the concerts. Surf on over to www.jakeschepps.com/press and see some of what people have been saying about the new Bartok album. And if you have not purchased your copy yet.......... the holidays are fast approaching. Here is a clip from our workshop from Berklee School of Music:
"An Evening in the Village: the Music of Béla Bartók" is officially released
Head straight to jakeschepps.bandcamp.comand order yours today, or go to Amazon or CDBaby if that suits your fancy (it is not on iTunes yet), or even hop on a bike and head down to Bart's CD Shack. After 2 years in the making, you can finally get your own copy with artwork by Pencil+Paper, extensive liner notes from Anastasia Tsouiclas, 18 tunes by Bela Bartok, and one from the fiddler Marcus Martin (a tweaked Cousin Sally Brown.
East coast CD Release Tour!
We are headed out east for a 2-week spin down the eastern seaboard playing music from An Evening in the Village, with stops at the legendary Club Passim, a stop at NPR Studios for their estimable Tiny Desk Concerts, over to Kentucky for a WoodSongs Radio Hour taping, and lots more dates in between. Click on the Tour Page for all the details.
RockyGrass Report
I was out on the beat reporting for The Bluegrass Blog during the RockyGrass Festival. You can read about some of the highlights here: Day 1, Day 2, and Day 3.
Raymond Scott tribute shows in June!
A new project in the works: An Acoustic Dinner With a Pack of Hungry Cannibals: The Music of Raymond Scott is a collaboration between some of the Front Range's finest musicians on some of the wildest, funkiest music of one of most progressive composers of the 1930's.
Upcoming shows this weekend
The Expedition Quartet is on tour around Colorado this weekend. First stop is in Aspen on February 9 for an apres ski show, then over to Paonia for a benefit for Fresh and Wyld. Back down to the Front Range for shows at Louisville Center for the Arts and then we are deeply honored to be playing Sunday February 13 at Dazzle Jazz Club in Denver. Check the Tour Page for more info, sign the mailing list to your right, or find us on Facebook.
