Summer Camps!

Registration begins February 14, 2025! View 2025 summer offerings and information now.

Music Instruction Music Instruction

Award-winning music lessons, ensembles, and group classes for aspiring musicians of all ages and skill levels — children, teens, and adults.

Learn More

Early Childhood Early Childhood

Morning & Full-Day Preschool programs with a full, child-centered curriculum of creative specials like music, science, drama, social and emotional learning, and more!

Learn More

Music Therapy Music Therapy

Established in 1966, our pioneering Center for Music Therapy (CMT) uses guided music experiences to help individuals meet life's challenges.

Learn More

BOP STOP BOP STOP

BOP STOP at The Music Settlement is Cleveland's premier listening room: an intimate, acoustically pristine performance venue with sweeping views of Lake Erie.

Learn More

Tipple @ BOP STOP

September 25 from 8:00pm - 11:00pm

Tipple @ BOP STOP

Tipple is the trio of David Watson, electric guitar, Kevin Norton, percussion, vibes and marimba, and Frode Gjerstad on alto saxophone, Bb clarinet, and bass clarinet. "No Sugar on Anything", the current album they are promiting, is their 3rd release, the previous being on FMR, while this is on Frode Gjerstad's own Circulasione label. Gjerstad also handles the mixing and mastering, while Lasse Marhaug provides the CD cover.

Tipple is a free improvising group, crossing the international boundary by joining the Norwegian Gjerstad with New York area players Watson and Norton. Watson performs on electric guitar, a quite different instrument from his frequent bagpipe forays, but his use of the guitar often brings the bluster of the bagpipe to call; at other times his playing is abstract but with a distorted edge, meandering around the point but always getting to it.

The communication between the trio is superb, and each release has brought a more telepathic link to their improvisations. The dialog ranges from very sparse conversation to emphatic and vigorous attacks, but never overwhelms the listener in chaotic ways. As Gjerstad comments on his website, "A nice little trio producing music that is not constantly loud, but reflective and moving." Space is a frequent ingredient to their playing, in call and response or slowly developing discourse.

http://frodegjerstad.com/?page_id=162

http://www.squidco.com/miva/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=S&Product_Code=19839

Back to Calendar

Subscribe

Sign Up

Get email updates from The Music Settlement

Share This Page

Register

Tipple @ BOP STOP
Tipple @ BOP STOP

Free

Contact Information

Attendee Information

Additional Questions