Jake Schepps
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.
Welcome to the new site
Have a look around, enjoy the new sights and sounds. Also please sign the maling list to be the first to hear about the upcoming release of An Evening in the Village: the Music of Béla Bartók. Expedition is playing a run of Colorado shows in February so check the Tour page to hear us. And thanks to Superclean for this amazing new site.
Free holiday download from new album
Please visit this site for a free holiday download of the Romanian Christmas Songs by Béla Bartók. This track includes Matt Flinner on mandolin, Grant Gordy on guitar, Ryan Drickey on violin, and Ian Hutchison on bass, and myself on 5-string banjo. This is a preview from the upcoming album An Evening in the Village: the Music of Béla Bartók due out this Fall 2011. Enjoy the music.
