Trapper Schoepp live at Thrasher Opera House!
Doors & Bar open at 7pm – Showtime 7:30pm.
Only 30 in-person tickets available at $35 each!
*NEW* VIRTUAL TICKETS: You will receive confirmation of your virtual ticket order within 48 hours of your purchase. Then, on
the day of the show, you will receive an email (the same email address you purchased the tickets with) containing a private YouTube link to the live show. You will receive this about 1 hour before the show begins. These shows will not be able to be viewed publicly on YouTube, only virtual ticket holders will be able to see the live show. Only $15 each.
Growing up in small-town Wisconsin, Schoepp’s first love was racing BMX bikes on dirt trails along the Mississippi River. When he herniated a disc in his back, his mother signed him up for guitar lessons. It wasn’t quite the same, of course. But then Schoepp heard Dylan’s “Hurricane” for the first time.
“It shook my world,” he says. “Dylan offered me a radical new lens to see the world through. I still remember sinking into the red checkered couch in my parents’ basement and thinking that my life had just taken on a new direction.” In early 2017, the news emerged that way back in 1961, just months after he’d first moved to New York City, Dylan had drafted a song about Schoepp’s beloved Wisconsin, imagining a homesick rambler pining for the cheese and beer of his faraway Badger State. More than half a century later, the handwritten lyric sheet was uncovered by a former roommate and put up for auction at $30,000. In Milwaukee, Schoepp saw a photograph of Dylan’s handwritten lyrics and decided to set them to music, recording a rollicking version of the song that he titled “On, Wisconsin.”
