OH CAP’N, MY CAP’N. Native musician Christopher Schumacher (pictured), or Cap’n Seabeard, has been creating music for greater than a decade and is heading into the brand new 12 months with a bang. (Pictures through Fb)
Menomonie native and musician Christopher Schumacher, or Cap’n Seabeard, as followers might know him, can be acting at a three-set Forage present on Jan. 6. Although it received’t be the primary time Cap’n Seabeard has appeared at Forage (403 S Barstow St., Eau Claire), it is going to be his first efficiency since releasing a brand new music video.
Schumacher has been taking part in and creating music for 15 years and performing for about half as many, although the upcoming music video for his tune “Good Climate” would be the first he’s launched. Whereas he doesn’t have a concrete set record for the Forage present, he’ll probably carry out “Good Climate”.
Cap’n Seabeard would be the second set of the Jan. 6 present, the primary being Wyatt Thompson and the third being Andy Nelson.
Schumacher’s musical moniker is whimsical sufficient that people might surprise what impressed it, and its story stems from his time touring with a gaggle of musicians on the west coast years in the past. After messing round on a tourist-filled seaside in the future with one other musician, Schumacher earned the identify after messing round within the sand that day, sufficient so {that a} passerby really stopped and gawked at him. Humorously, he earned the nickname ‘Seabeard’ from his buddy.
“I’ve simply been blessed to be round music my entire life.”
christopher schumacher
a.okay.a cap’n seabeard
Raised on a household farm simply exterior of Menomonie, Schumacher has led a lifetime of wanderlust for the previous handful of years, a way of life he credit to his dedication to music. “I’ve spent most likely what’s occurring 5 – 6 years of touring each time the chance comes,” he mentioned. “I’ve had some luck and mates being actually good to me, letting me come stick with them for a month in a spare room or one thing, and doing odd jobs so I can dwell this life-style.”
“I’ve simply been blessed to be round music my entire life. I had lots of household and mates rising up that have been musically inclined, and I bear in mind after I was actually younger, I used to be going to punk storage exhibits and stuff like that,” Schumacher recalled.
Cap’n Seabeard’s sound grew out of the influences of punk music and skateboarding tradition, which he has lengthy been a part of as a skateboarder himself. “I grew up watching skate movies and (surrounding myself in) punk rock tradition,” he mentioned. “Punk rock is wonderful in its power degree however I additionally needed to take that to a special degree. I spotted that bluegrass and punk rock have quite a bit in widespread, (so) I’ve fiddled round with issues and came upon what appeared to work.”
Hoping to drop the music video for “Good Climate” someday between Dec. 29 and Jan. 1-2, Schumacher plans to ring within the new 12 months by hitting and planning for long-coming milestones. After the discharge of the music video and the Jan. 6 Forage efficiency, he’ll maintain cranking away at what he hopes can be a roughly 10-track EP, produced by Jordan Romero.
Forage has but to share the Jan. 6 occasion particulars on-line, so of us can maintain a lookout on their social media for extra data quickly.
Sustain with Christopher Schumacher/Cap’n Seabeard on Facebook and hearken to his music online, and go to Forage’s website for occasion data.
