Tara Clerkin Trio - Live at Open Melody Fest, 2220 Arts + Archives, Los Angeles, CA 4/4/2026

April 4, 2026 - Tara Clerkin Trio perform live at 2220 Arts + Archives, Los Angeles, California, for Open Melody Festival 2026, playing Day 2 of the Fest. Footage shot and shared by Eric Lamers of Los Angeles, @boxelderone on Instagram. Thanks Eric! 2 PM doors 3 PM Maral (Archives) 4 PM Dummy (Theater) 5 PM Artificial Go (Archives) 6 PM Kassie Krut (Theater) 7 PM Tara Clerkin Trio (Archives) 8 PM Lubomyr Melnyk (Theater) 9 PM Ben LaMar Gay Quartet (Archives) 10 PM OOIOO (Theater) 11 PM France (Archives) 12 AM Container (Archives) https://taraclerkintrio.bandcamp.com/...   / soundaroundme_   #TERACLERKINTRIO Bristol, UK Debut Los Angeles Performance Tara Clerkin Trio is a Bristol-based avant-pop and electroacoustic group comprised of Pat Benjamin, Sunny Joe Paradisos and Tara Clerkin, three musicians involved in a number of cult Bristol bands over the years before confidently settling down in triangle formation. The trio still possess a very obvious anchor in the form of their hometown. Bristol stands as a city of multitudes, heterogenous and vibrant in such a way as to allow it to renew and remake time and again. Tara Clerkin Trio drink from that same well, duly reflecting a rich musical heritage built on forward-facing electronic subcultures and experimental urge. “Pop” is, of course, a broadly subjective concept, but there’s no avoiding the overt sparkling melodicism of songs like “Marble Walls” and “The Turning Ground”, undeniable re-directions of that late 90s impulse to bend pop sensibilities into off-centre terrain, to render the familiar new again. This is what Tara Clerkin Trio do, gently pulling the ground from under your feet, turning you to face something you’d not quite seen before. To view the world as they do: sideways, sometimes, all of the time.