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About Us |
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Trotters Wake is a five piece vocal acoustic band consisting of Drew on Acoustic Guitar/Mandolin, Anna on Electric Piano/Bass, Sandy on Keyboard and Cyndy on Bodhran. We don’t have a permanent fiddler, but we generally work with Jonathan Miller. Our genre is “Pub/Traditional” - a mixture of Irish drinking songs, Irish and other Celtic ballads, and traditional Irish tunes (jigs, reels, etc.) We can also accommodate some of your American favourites as well, given enough time to prepare. We are located in Glendale, Arizona (USA) and play in the Greater Phoenix Metropolitan area, and throughout Arizona, where we look forward to bringing the pub to your next event or party. Band History… Drew Monasky, Sandy Lineweaver and Curtis Clark formed Trotters Wake in January 2006 after playing together in church and other projects for 6 years. Anna Merritt joined the band in October 2007 when Curtis left to pursue other avenues with the jazz groups Jacob’s Ladder and Three Thirds Jazz. Cyndy Gaughan joined the band in July 2008. Prior to Trotters Wake, she sat in on occasion with Blackwood back when her sensei the mighty Kevin King was the bodhran player. She has also played/recorded with Scott Jeffers/Celtica. We have worked with the following fiddlers... Erin Lewis began sitting in with the band at gigs in December 2008. Jonathan Miller provided the fiddle tracks for our first CD and began sitting in with us in May 2009. See our links page for more info on hiring Jonathan. Tamara Freida worked some of our St. Patrick’s 2010 gigs. Originally from Rochester, New York, Tamara moved to Arizona in 2005 when she began a Master's Degree in Violin Performance at ASU. Tamara is now off working with troubled youths in the wilderness of Utah, and loving it. Our first CD, A Decent Dowry, was released on November 1, 2009. In Sep 2010, we began billing ourselves as “Half-a-Wake” when we had only a partial complement of our normal band and had to recruit some other players to fill in. It is not uncommon to see Irish bands billed under different names, depending on who is playing with them. |
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Drew, Anna, Sandy & Cyndy (standing) |
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Trotters Wake Irish Band |
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...bringing the pub to your party! ™ |