Strangelander has been called a Milwaukee supergroup, as it is comprised of leaders and members of notable bands including the Static Chicken, De La Buena, Amanda Huff, You Win!!, Tontine Ensemble, November Criminals and more. If a genre must be applied to their music, it might be Alternative World music.

Aaron Gardner - tenor saxophone

Amanda Huff - voice

David Wake - piano

Jeremy Kuzniar - drums

Michael Ritter - acoustic bass

Patrick Reinholz - cello

Steve Peplin - music, lyrics, guitar, percussion, voice, keyboards

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A renaissance man in the truest sense of the word, musician/magician/actor Garrett Waite traverses many disciplines and mediums to provide original and life affirming experiences.

As a guitarist, he is a difficult character to pin down. One night he’s soaring at light speed above a jazz rhythm section, the next he’s picking old Appalachian folk songs, singing poetic lyrics over fingerpicked cascades, or blasting his Telecaster at full volume on the road with alt-pop outfit, Day Tvvo. A student of music driven by deep curiosity, Garrett is comfortable in the realms of jazz, folk, rock, avant-garde, world music, and more. Despite his eclectic leanings, his music always retains a distinct melodicism and humanness that cut through no matter the musical setting.

Garrett graduated with Honors and a Division Achievement Award from Berklee College of music, which he attended with scholarship. He was a finalist in the Wilson Center Guitar Competition (Jazz Division, 2018), and won 1st Place in the NATS singing competition (Classical Division, 2015). He was handpicked by Grammy Award-winning trumpeter Terence Blanchard to play and compose in the Jazz Composition Workshop, and the X-Tet Ensemble. In 2022 he was an Artist in Residence at the historic Jazz Estate, and currently runs a monthly jam session at Bar Centro ...continue reading

$10 adv/ $15 at the door (advance sales until 3pm day of show, then available at the door). Doors at 6pm, showtime 7pm