Win Tickets ($44): Battle Trance (feat. Travis Laplante) + Blue Cranes @ The Old Church Concert Hall | Saxophonist, Composer

We are giving away a pair of tickets to Battle Trance (feat. Travis Laplante) + Blue Cranes @ The Old Church Concert Hall on November 3. To win, comment below on this post why you’d like to attend. Winner will be drawn and emailed October 31.

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From our sponsors:
Battle Trance (feat. Travis Laplante) + Blue Cranes
November 3, 2022
Doors 7PM, Show 8PM | $18-$22 | All Ages
More info: events.humanitix.com

The Old Church Concert Hall
1422 SW 11th Ave, Portland, OR 97201

Travis Laplante is a saxophonist, composer, and qigong practitioner living in Brooklyn, New York and southern Vermont. Laplante leads Battle Trance, the acclaimed tenor saxophone quartet as well as Subtle Degrees, his newest project with drummer Gerald Cleaver. He is also known for his solo saxophone work and his longstanding ensemble Little Women. Laplante has recently performed and/or recorded with Trevor Dunn, Ches Smith, Peter Evans, So Percussion, Michael Formanek, Buke and Gase, Ingrid Laubrock, Darius Jones, Mat Maneri, and Matt Mitchell, among others. He has toured his music extensively and has appeared at many major international festivals throughout the US, Canada, and Europe. As a qigong student of master Robert Peng, Laplante has undergone traditional intensive training. His focus in recent years, under the tutelage of Laura Stelmok, has been on Taoist alchemical medicine and the cultivation of the heart. Laplante is passionate about the intersection of music and medicine. He and his wife are the founders of Sword Hands, a qigong and acupuncture healing practice based in Brooklyn, New York and Putney, Vermont.