Teddy’s LOOPestra created community with weekly shows at Rockwood Music Hall between 2011 and 2018.
The idea of the band is a live looping guitar trio with a rotating cast.
Despite what the multi layered sound might tell you, everything you hear from the Teddy Kumpel LOOPestra on stage is played live. With innovative use of looping technology and his vast experience mangling vintage and modern sounds Teddy effortlessly creates myriad textures that make you think there must be a whole slew of musicians hiding backstage. A veritable funkdafied psychadelic orchestra appearing as a rock trio! Joining Teddy are New York’s best and brightest musicians. It’s a rotating cast of NYC music stars.
Check out Teddy Kumpel Loopestra’s Volume One record
Or, Check out over 500 videos of LOOPestra live
thank you to all the musicians who contributed to LOOPetsra
drums -
Pete Abbott, Bill Campbell, Keith Carlock, Mino Cinelu, Aaron Comess, Tom Curiano, Dave Diamond, Josh Dion, Robert Di Pietro, Sean Dixon, Brian Dunne, Jon Epcar, Lee Finkelstein, Steve Finkelstein, Brian Griffin, Mark Guiliana, Adrian Harpham, Graham Hawthorne, Fish, Chris Infusino, Todd Isler, Gintas Janusonis, Aaron Johnston, Jun Kung, Yuval Lion, Jojo Mayer, Adam MinKoff, Rich Pagano, Shawn Pelton, Jordan Perlson, Ben Perowsky, Adam Polatov, Tony Mason, Nick McBride, Allison Miller, Matt Miller, Shawn Murray, Joel Rosenblatt, Genji Siraisi, Aaron Steele, Dave Treut, Steve Williams, Kenny Wollesen, Doug Yowell
bass -
Hagar Ben Ari, Patrice Blanchard, Reuben Cainer, Fred Cash, John Conte, Chris Crosby,Stephan Crump, Sean Dixon, Fima Ephron, Paul Frazier, James Genus, Richard Hammond, Rene Hart, Andy Hess, Shahzad Ismailly, Rob Jost, Zev Katz, Tim LeFebvre, Jonathon Levy, Tim Luntzel, Jonathan Maron, Adam MinKoff, Aiden Moore, Chris Morrissey, Jesse Murphy, Michael Ning, Ben Rubin, David Santos, Jordan Scannella, Frank Scavone, Peter Scherr, Tony Scherr, Lincoln Schleifer, Jake Silver, Bob Stander, Chris Tarry, Mike Visceglia
keys -
Mark Bonder, Emilie Cardinaux, Erik Deutsch, Andy Ezrin, Henry Hey, Brian Mitchell, Andrew Page, Oli Rockberger, Dred Scott, Ben Stivers
horns -
Steven Bernstien, Michael Blake, Jake Clemons, Clark Gayton, Erik Lawrence, Chuck MacKinnon, Barbara Paierl, Steve Peckman, DC Rapier, Michael Weisberger, Stefan Zenuik
violin -
Megan Palmer, Christian Howes, Jason Crosby
cello -
Trevor Exter
erhu -
Jack Hsu
harmonica -
Jason Novak
vocals -
Lorraine Ferro, Jeni Fujita, carla duren, Eva Kuo, Andy Ezrin, Brittany Anjou
photo by Manish Gosalia