Jason Trachtenburg & Cannonball Statmann (NYC)

JASON TRACHTENBURG is best known for his role as “The Dad” in the long running Off-Broadway and
Indie-rock act The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players. He has appeared on “Late Night with Conan
O’Brian,” MTV, VH1, Sundance Channel, The Bonnaroo Fest, and is a multiple time award winner at the
Edinburgh Festival Fringe. He has received feature coverage in the New York Times, the Los Angeles
Times, The Guardian, Pitchfork, N.M.E., Spin, and many more. He has given a T.E.D. talk, and his band’s
debut album (Vintage Slide Collections From Seattle, Vol. 1) reached #79 in the CMJ charts. Jason’s
2018 musical, “Me and Lee - The Musical” is the authorized musical adaptation of the historical
auto-biography of Judyth Vary Baker: Teen Science Superstar, witness to history, and secret girlfriend of
Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963. His third musical, “The Statue” is the story of Anna Dostoevsky, and is
premiering Nov 1, 2023 at The Lambs Theatrical Club. Jason is the leader of the Indie-Big Band “The
Pendulum Swings” and he is the President of the 4th St. Food Co-op in the East Village.

CANNONBALL STATMAN has penned over 100 songs, released over a dozen albums, and toured
extensively in America, Europe, and Asia, sharing stages with like-minded artists such as
Jeffrey Lewis, Days N' Daze, and Sunflower Bean. He began making his own music at age 8,
needing to channel the trauma of growing up in post-9/11 NYC, and cut his teeth on
underground scenes of that era. He is known for his soulful lyrics that Radio Javali calls "great
American storytelling".
Following his 2017-'19 world tour, when LiveTrigger Magazine dubbed him "the king of modern
antifolk", he released the double album Miracle on Neon Clown Avenue in 2022, and did
multiple European tours in preparation for the release of Hard to Break in 2023. Each of his
albums has its own sound, drawing comparisons to folk, classical, punk, pop, and metal, and all
feature his unique guitar style described by Bob's Aural Delights as "the edge of madness", a
sense of melancholy and fun, and references to his hometown of NYC.