Hank Roberts Trio with John Stetch on piano and Jim Black on drums

Our premier concert was on June 30th, 2010 in Ithaca, NY at the Carriage House Hayloft.  Our next concert is in NYC at ‘the Stone’ on September 11, 2010.  We have a European tour in the works for January 2011.

See more video online at http://www.youtube.com/mshankr

Hank Roberts with Marc Ducret and Jim Black

Over the past several years I’ve been touring and recording with a new group which includes French guitarist Marc Ducret and NY drummer Jim Black and myself. we completed our third tour of Europe this past March ’08. Our new CD ‘Green’ on ‘Winter and Winter’, was recorded in Munich in June ’07 with Stefan Winter producing is now available.

June 8, 2008 New York Times review http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/arts/music/08play.html?scp=1&sq=hank+roberts+green&st=nyt

Bill Frisell

In 2002 I also began working with Bill Frisell again (we first began playing together in 1975), recording the 858 Richter CD with the 858 Quartet including violinist Jenny Scheinman and violist Eyvind Kang. We began performing concerts with the quartet and with Bill’s Unspeakable Orchestra, and recording the next CD which was Bill’s 2005 Grammy award winning CD, “Unspeakable”. There is more recorded material from a tour last year that was released in May 2008 as Bill Frisell “History Mystery”. The 858 Quartet recently recorded music for the NPR special series called ‘Stories from the Heart of the Land’ http://www.nature.org/heart/. Over the past few years we’ve toured in Europe once and the US several times, performed at the Chicago Philharmonic Hall and at Carnegie Hall. The 858 Quartet got a great review in the NY Times during our week at the Village Vanguard in NYC. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/17/arts/music/17fris.html?scp=1&sq=Bill+frisell+858&st=nyt

Buffalo Collision

I’m excited to be working in this group with my friend Tim Berne on alto saxophone, along with pianist Ethan Iverson and drummer Dave King both from the group ‘The Bad Plus’.

Ti Ti Chickapea

Hank Roberts on cello and vocals, Richie Stearns (from the Horse Flies) on banjo, tenor guitar and vocals, Eric Aceto (from Mectapus and Djug Django) on violin and vocals. We perform a combination of old time, folk, original songs, and improvised music. Our first CD ‘Change of Worlds’ came out on Orchard Beat Records. We also recorded one with Kevin Kinsella, ‘Firestick’ for ITown records.

Hank Roberts and Wiggy Dog Boy

In 2002 my CD called ‘The Truth and Reconciliation Show’ was released on ITown records. I was moved to present alternatives to violence in the world. The ensemble that recorded the CD, including from 5 to 13 musicians, performed regionally until the end of 2005.  There have been no recent concerts with this group.  If you’re interested in a recording of this group, you can go to CDBaby to download some of the music.