Z-Arts and Kayenta Arts Foundation are pleased to present 3hattrio in a virtual performance, previewing their upcoming CD, “The Lost Sessions.”

This event will be held on Wednesday, February 24th with a 50 minute virtual concert which you can enjoy from the comfort of your own home. Join us at 8:00 PM MST for a live reception with the musicians.

Tickets are $10 per household (for the concert link and live reception) and can be purchased through EventBrite. Ticket holders will receive two links: one for the virtual show, which will be available from 3:00 PM MST to Midnight MST and one for the live Zoom reception.

About “The Lost Sessions”

3hattrio makes recordings of their informal music in the way that some people chronicle dreams. It was a summer chock full of wonderful recordings, creative ideas, 3hattrio at its best, all hidden and safe on the hard drive. At least that is what the group thought until that day a piano accidentally fell on the hard drive smashing it to smithereens.

Greg Istock, keeper of the music, looked on as the summers work lay in wreckage. He observed, “Lost can carry different meanings. It can be something misplaced with hopes for resurfacing but this loss was brutal and final, a cruel twist of fate.”

Later that year Greg found a company that specialized in retrieving lost data from crushed hard drives. They did not promise much but after examining the drive they surprisingly were able to restore some of the data and said we would get a new hard drive soon. When it arrived, there was nothing on it. It was blank. We alerted the company but they said that due to a Covid lockdown there was little chance of finding the illusive lost data. After another couple of months a second hard drive showed up unexpectedly. As the new drive loaded Greg saw recognizable file names. It was the music, the scorched data, almost sacred in its mysterious loss. The lost music is this recording.

About 3hattrio

3hattrio’s home base is Virgin, Utah at the doorstep of Zion National Park. The Trio has been together eight years and has six CD’s to their credit. They toured Europe for the fourth time in 2019. Previously they have performed at major festivals including the Gothenburg Sweden Culture Festival, Tønder Festival in Denmark and Celtic Connections in Glasgow, Scotland and the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada

The group includes Hal Cannon, who sings, and plays banjo and guitar. He is also a scholar of cowboy music and poetry and is Founding Director of the Western Folklife Center. Greg Istock plays acoustic bass and foot percussion. He has a Caribbean music background and is also a visual artist.  Eli Wrankle, is classically trained violinist who studies at Southern Utah University and comes from a family of artists.

3hattrio takes pride in originality both in their music and style. They call their music, American Desert Music. Musicians often identify with things larger than themselves such as place, like the Delta blues or Appalachian mountain music. And though 3hattrio has great respect for what is called western music, they believe the vastness of the American West deserves many interpretations of its glorious traditions and landscape.

 

Support for this event provided by the Western States Arts Federation.

This project is supported by Utah Arts and Museums, with funding from the State of Utah and the National Endowment for the Arts .

Support for this event provided by The National Endowment for the Arts - Art Works