The Old Church and Creative Music Guild present:

Travis Laplante
Wallsmith/Cunningham/Sielaff/Wyland

Travis Laplante (Battle Trance, Subtle Degrees, Little Women), will be returning to Portland to perform a piece for solo tenor saxophone at The Old Church. 

A quartet made up of Joe Cunningham and Reed Wallsmith (Blue Cranes) on saxophones, Jonathan Sielaff (Golden Retriever) on bass clarinet, Luke Wyland (AU/Methods Body) on organ/grand piano will be performing a long form piece that was first performed two years ago at the Creative Music Guild’s ISP festival, to open up the evening.

Travis Laplante is a saxophonist, composer, and qigong practitioner living in Brooklyn, New York and southern Vermont. Laplante leads Battle Trance, the acclaimed tenor saxophone quartet as well as Subtle Degrees, his newest project with drummer Gerald Cleaver. He is also known for his solo saxophone work and his longstanding ensemble Little Women. Laplante has recently performed and/or recorded with the JACK Quartet, Trevor Dunn, Ches Smith, Peter Evans, So Percussion, Michael Formanek, Buke and Gase, Ingrid Laubrock, Darius Jones, Yarn/Wire, and Matt Mitchell, among others. He has toured his music extensively and has appeared at many major international festivals throughout the US, Canada, and Europe. As a qigong student of master Robert Peng, Laplante has undergone traditional intensive training. His focus in recent years, under the tutelage of Laura Stelmok, has been on Taoist alchemical medicine and the cultivation of the heart. Laplante is passionate about the intersection of music and medicine. He and his wife are the founders of Sword Hands, a qigong and acupuncture healing practice based in Brooklyn, New York and Putney, Vermont.
http://travislaplante.com/

Tuesday, November 5th
Doors 7pm, Show 8pm

The Old Church
1422 SW 11th Ave, Portland

$12 advanced
$15 at the door
All Ages (bar w/ ID)