Chandler Travis, King of the World
Non-review profiles of Chandler, the Philharmonic and the Three-O
On our recent swing through New York and Western Massachusetts, we stopped by the studios of WRSI (The River – 93.9FM in Northampton, MA). Host Joan Holliday of Live on the Riversound Cafe interviewed Chandler and we played a couple
Chandler was interviewed by Sarah LaDuke for WAMC‘s program “The Roundtable” to help promote our recent show at The Linda in Albany, NY. The interview was broadcast on November 19. An archived copy of the interview is available here.
By KEN MAIURI Gazette Contributing Writer From the new kids on the block to the New England band from another universe: the Chandler Travis Philharmonic swings in from the outer reaches (of Cape Cod) for a big show at the
Like Lyle Lovett & His Large Band, Chandler Travis makes both big, or large, sounds and more intimate music by dividing and recombining bands. Deep in Travis’s musical DNA – whatever ensemble he’s leading – is engaging playfulness, encyclopedic musical
Chandler Travis Philharmonette The curiously named Chandler Travis Philharmonette is from Eastham, Mass. (Cape Cod) and led by the aforementioned Chandler Travis, who many know from cult band the Incredible Casuals. The group is a fun-filled nine-piece “Alternative Dixieland omnipop
The Noise (Boston): Cover Story, February 2010 by Joe Coughlin There’s so much constantly going on with this guy, there’s barely enough room for his own words here. Conveniently, he was pretty economical with ’em anyway, which is bound to
The Chandler Travis Philharmonic by Richard Gehr Kitschy, excessive, rambunctious, and unfettered, Cape Cod songwriter Chandler Travis’s immodestly named nine-piece group is not unlike a classic-pop reflection of the late Sun Ra’s Arkestra. That being said, Travis recently released a
by Michael Hochanadel Edition: Schenectady/Albany; Final Section: D: Life & Arts Page: D2 The Chandler Travis Philharmonic may be about the most fun you can have with your clothes on — as goofy and musically various as NRBQ (with whom
by Michael Janairo, Arts & Entertainment Editor The Boston Globe calls the Chandler Travis Philharmonic “Dixieland, pop, avant-jazz, rock…and fully over the top.” Around since the fall of 1996, CTP has created something like 3 million albums and more than
It was the last time that I went to Folk Alliance, this singer songwriter convention. It was in San Diego that year, February of 2004, that I first ran into Chandler Travis. Several floors of a moderately good hotel are