Trevor Bystrom at The Habitat
About the Show…
It is quite likely that you are checking out The Habitat for the first time, as Trevor has a long-time following locally in the Bradenton area. We really hope you come out to see him at our location, as it will be a unique location to see him live – our sole reason to host shows is a love of music, we are a listening environment, and 100% of the donations that you contribute go to the musicians.
For our Habitatian regulars, We have been hoping to have Trevor play here for some time now, but all the dates we tried ended up not working out, and this is a good number of years in the works – you will not be disappointed in the quality of music you expect at The Habitat!
Trevor is presenting this show as a 3 piece, he will be joined by Benny Maldonado (Percussion, Congas) and Judit Rodriguez Maldonado (Minor Percussion and Backup Vocals) and he is also bringing 10 year old new sensation and budding prodigy Nora Bear (guitar/vocals)!
We encourage you to check out his web site: Trevor Bystrom
About Trevor:
Trevor’s love of music and conservationist spirit was fostered from a young age. He was born and raised on historic Anna Maria Island by a musical family. He grew up attending music festivals all around Florida. By 16 he had written many originals and began performing around local venues. At age 18, he started working on his first album, “Fly Away.” During that year, Morgan Greig joined on percussion and didgeridoo. The album was released and sold over 150 copies the first night. A few years later, Trevor and Morgan joined up with Kristie Armas on the bass to form The Tribal Trio. With this acoustic act Trevor released his second album, “Live and Direct.” It sold the entire order of 1,000 albums. After two years with this trio, Trevor’s songwriting visions led him to pursue a more dynamic project with a full size band.
In the summer of 2016 Trevor Bystrom attended the 5 week summer program at Berklee College of Music. Here he joined the World Music ensemble, which started to lay down the bricks for Trevor’s path to Caribbean and Afro influenced music. The ensemble was a group of 12 students covering songs by Nneka and Richard Bona. This was one of Trevor’s most challenging weeks in his music career. In 2019 Trevor started recording his new album, a big project stretching the boundaries of Trevor past music. He called on Pedro Arevalo, a berkley grad and international touring musician, to help produce the album with him. This album brings out more latin, reggae, and calypso side. During a search for a percussionist, James Hershey found Benny Maldonado, a next level Latin Grammy nominated percussionist based out of Tampa. He took on this band like it was one of his own along with his wife Judit Maldonado who joined as vocalist and auxiliary percussionist.
During the tough year of 2020, one of Trevor’s passion projects blossomed. An artist he was collaboration on a single with together decided, with the current lock downs and loss of shows, to record a 6 song EP. For the next year Trevor and Peter worked endlessly to created this album remotely from their own studios over 8,000 miles apart. They successfully finished the EP “Mawanga & Bystrom” and set its release to be September 1st and dropping its first single “Some Day” on July 7th. At the same time this project came to light, Trevor’s band was building. Juna Serita joins as its core bass player and Zooey Seraphine joins with violin and sound scaping. The band of now 7 members released its 1st of the 5 live in studio music videos. Trevor released the rest of “Live in Studio” videos, EP “Mawanga & Bystrom” in September, a full album with his band in 2022, along with countless video projects, and continues to build his brand Blind Rooster.
Suggested Donation for this show is $20 a person, and there are limited VIP seats available as well by request, Suggested Donation for VIP is $35 a person… We are no longer able to offer pre-donations as we have not been able to locate a reliable method to do this going forward. All donations will be made at the door. We really ask that if you RSVP that you actually attend the show!
RSVP deadline is past
