Tray Wellington Live from The Cooperage – Milwaukee, WI

Tray Wellington Live from The Cooperage – Milwaukee, WI

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Don’t miss this upcoming 2024 Local Event in Milwaukee, WI. Happening on Sunday, November 10, 2024 at The Cooperage. Doors open at 7:00 PM.

Tray Wellington, the bluegrass banjoist breaking barriers in Appalachian ‘mountain music’ comes to The Cooperage!

Banjo player Tray Wellington’s approach to the quintessential American instrument is all about looking forward. An International Bluegrass Music Association Award winner, Wellington is critically acclaimed not only for his technical prowess, but also for leveraging his unique point of view to craft a one-of-a-kind voice on the instrument. It’s a feat that’s all too rare in these roots genres that seem to value emulation and regurgitation over all else. Instead, Wellington has time and time again reasserted that his playing style, and all of the many varied and disparate parts that combine within it, is wholly his own – and it’s unconcerned with tradition.

Whether seen on CNN, discovered in reviews and features by The Wall Street Journal or The New York Times, or heard on the main stage of roots music festivals across the country, Wellington combines forward-looking musical textures and influences with an athletic and trad right hand. There are numerous qualities here evoking so many five-string banjo legends, but there are just as many that are brand new – referencing or conjuring jazz, swing, bebop, hip-hop, rock and roll, and beyond. Wellington is carving a truly idiosyncratic pathway for himself in music and on the banjo. The stereotypical, often revisionist and white-washed cultural touchpoints of the instrument are decidedly in his rearview mirror.

With roots in Western North Carolina and East Tennessee, Wellington subverts those expectations and presuppositions of five-string banjo players artfully; his playing is constantly informed by a striking self awareness. Do not be confused, his bluegrass, old-time, and traditional expertise is well-honed, since he was a teenager, but at this stage in his solo career, they are merely a small handful of influences in the rich, diverse soil his music is rooted in. On top of this well of knowledge, Wellington knows how he is perceived in these roots music spaces, and he uses that awareness to his advantage.

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Event ID - 993971624887

Event Venue - The Cooperage

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Date And Time

Sunday, November 10th, 2024 @ 07:00 PM
 

Venue

The Cooperage
 

Location

822 South Water Street, Milwaukee, WI 53204
 

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MilwaukeeWisconsin

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