THE MATT
PAVOLKA
BAND

The Matt Pavolka Band celebrates the release of their new album “Disciplinary Architecture”

Matt Pavolka, bass
Ben Monder, guitar
Santiago Leibson, keyboards
Allan Mednard, drums

Matt Pavolka is, like, a dude who plays the bass and this is his band’s first time in Portland. Some people think that Matt’s totally awesome. He started out as a trombonist but couldn’t take the derision. He thought chicks would dig him if he played the bass. He had it confused with the guitar. He is a redneck from the State of Indiana. He was born in Muncie. His parents went to college there with David Letterman. He grew up in Bloomington. Not far from there is a town called Raccoon, and another one called Needmore. He went to Berklee College of Music in Boston, mostly to get the hell out of Indiana. He played a lot of music there. He met many of the musicians that he works with to this day. He met his future wife. He wrote some music. He won some awards. He drank lots and lots of coffee, smoked lots and lots of cigarettes, ate bad pizza and didn’t sleep much. He’s much healthier now. He currently resides in Brooklyn, New York with his beautiful and talented wife Akiko. He makes a lot of great music with amazing musicians in New York City and abroad. He occasionally makes mediocre music with mediocre musicians, for money. He has a band that plays sporadically in the New York area, called “The Matt Pavolka Band”. They have one album out on Tone Of A Pitch Records, entitled “Something People Can Use”. People gave him money, so they made another album, “Disciplinary Architechture”. They’ll play stuff from that, plus much more.

RUN TIME: 90 mins, no intermission