Trevino Brings Plenty: News

Trevino plays guitar in two bands: Hurtbird and The Brothers Young. Both bands have recently released albums and are performing live.

You can now listen and download all five Ballads of Larry Drake albums.
Go the the music section of this website.

Voices of a People's History of the United States
Live Event


Friday, May 16, 2008, at 8 pm
Portland, Oregon


Location: First Baptist Church
corner of SW Taylor St and 12th Ave
Portland, Oregon
http://www.fbc-portland.org/

Featuring

Anthony Arnove
Eric Levine
Michael Ealy
Sarah Levy
Shontina Vernon
Staceyann Chin
Trevino Brings Plenty
Viggo Mortensen


Voices of a People's History of the United States
(http://www.sevenstories.com/Book/index.cfm?GCOI=58322100666900),
edited by Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove, is the long-awaited
primary-source companion to Howard Zinn's best-selling A People's
History of the United States. It features the words of rebels,
dissenters and visionaries from our past -- and present.

The performance is sponsored by the Illahee Lecture Series and is a
benefit for Voices of a People's History of the United States, a
501c3 created to encourage civic engagement and to further history
education by bringing the rich stories of dissent and activism in the
United States to life through public readings. (More info at
http://howardzinn.org/default/.)


Purchase tickets at:
http://www.illahee.org/lectures/tickets2008

For more information, contact Illahee:
Box office phone: 503-222-2719
email: info@illahee.org
web: http://www.illahee.org/lectures Tickets: $20, $10 for students

Here is a new book. It's me and my buds.

Shedding Skins: Four Sioux Poets (American Indian Studies) You can purchase it a powells.com, amazon.com or barnes and noble
Buy it and love it.
Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
Here's the myth: Native Americans are people of great spiritual depth, in touch with the rhythms of the earth, rhythms that they celebrate through drumming and dancing. They love the great outdoors and are completely in tune with the natural world. They can predict the weather by glancing at the sky, or hearing a crow cry, or somehow. Who knows exactly how? The point of the myth is that Indians are, well, special. Different from white people, but in a good way. The four young male Native American poets whose work is brought together in this startling collection would probably raise high their middle fingers in salute to this myth. These guys--and guys they are--don't buy into the myth. Their poems aren't about hunting and fishing or bonding with animal spirits. Their poems are about urban decay and homelessness, about loneliness and despair, about Payday Loans and 40-ounce beers, about getting enough to eat and too much to drink. And there is nothing romantic about their poetry, either. It is written in the vernacular of mean streets: often raw and coarse and vulgar, just like the lives it describes. Sure, they write about life on the reservation. However, for the Indians in their poems, life on the reservation is a lot like life in the city, but without the traffic. These poets are sick to death of the myth. You can feel it in their poems. These poets are bound by a common attitude as well as a common heritage. All four--Joel Waters, Steve Pacheco, Kurt Schweigman (who writes under the name Luke Warm Water), and Trevino L. Brings Plenty--are Sioux, and all four identify themselves as Skins (as in Redskins). In their poems, they grapple with their heritage, wrestling with what it means to be a Sioux and a Skin today. It's a fight to the finish.

Red Ink Magazine Fall Vol.13, No. 2

June 9, 2007 Trevino played backing guitar for Hurtbird at The Someday Lounge.
You have to fast forward to the second band.
There are some heavy guitar licks.
Check it out and rock hard.
Hurtbird at The Someday Lounge Oh yeah, Quiet Countries and Loch Lomond performed the same night too.

Trevino L. Brings Plenty has two poems in the Oregon Literary Review.
Trevino L. Brings Plenty's latest summer project "Ballads of Larry Drake" has finished two albums so far. The first is titled "Cube the Cute" and the second is "High, Low." The third installment will be recorded the weekend of the July 13th.

I have some poems in the anthology "To Topos" published by Oregon State University, edited by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke. Check it out. To Topos - Ahani: Indigenous American Poetry Art Installation, show "Indian 3.0" is now available to watch. It's the promo video. Indian 3.0 You can now download my show from the Someday Lounge, March 17, 2007, under the music section of my website. Enjoy.

The Joy of Me

I like me. I did a vanity search on my name to find what is out there. I came across an article from "Art in America," Oct. 2006. It was about an exhibit I was part of at the Institute of American Indian Arts. All publicity is good publicity.

Check it and tell me what you think.

Bently Spang, Mary Black Bonnet, Trevino Brings Plenty create "Indian 3.0" art installation in the Northcutt Steele Gallery, Montana State University - Billings.
Performative Poetry Reading on opening night.
Exhibit runs Nov. 17 - Dec. 15, 2006.

One video of Trevino Brings Plenty's is part of a "Drift" an art exhibit at the BRAC Gallery in the Bronx, NY. Nov. 4 - Dec. 2006.

There is a a small write up Oct. 2006 in the issue of Art in America.

Trevino Brings Plenty receives an artist residency to the Montana Artist Refuge for the month of Sept. 2006.

Trevino Brings Plenty's art videos are shown at the IAIA Mesuem for the month of Sept. 2006.

Trevino has written a poem to accompany a Triptych as part of a writers and artist project.
Title of painting: Native Travel.
Title of poem: Native Travel: Clothes Partially Make the Man

Lakota Jam 01 and Palani Kute Manipe, are artsy film shorts created using found footage. Music was composed/mixed by Trevino at the Going Down Studios.
Check it out.
http://www.youtube.com/user/IktomiFilms
http://www.dailymotion.com/Iktomi_Films

The Vinos have another song, Come On, included in a short film about Sandy Boulevard, Portland, OR.
Check it out and rate it.
Thanks Tracy from www.team-zoma.com

Trevino L. Brings Plenty's poem "Lakota Language Lessons with Benjamin" from the poetry collection, Removing Skin (2005), was just published in the literary journal Cold Mountain Review, Fall 2005.
Here are some links to and about the journal:
http://www.coldmountain.appstate.edu/currentissue.html
http://www.news.appstate.edu/releases/022306coldmountain.html

Read an exclusive interview by Kevin Sampsell with Trevino L. Brings Plenty.
http://www.powells.com/blog/?p=789#more-789

You can hear The Vinos' song Grave Digger on a film short about the Alberta Street Art District Portland, Oregon at http://www.turnhere.com

New The Vinos recordings and mixes added to website. Recorded and mixed by Rob O. Check them out.
Mexico Way
On Your Own
Come On
Distant Flame
Julia

Buy Trevino L. Brings Plenty latest book, Removing Skin ($12.95).
Go to http://www.powells.com or send check or money order payable to:
Trevino L. Brings Plenty
PO Box 3
Portland, OR 97207-0003

The Vinos
12 Oct 05, Wed, $1
Ash St Saloon,
Portland, OR USA

Trevino will be in Amman, Jordan Aug 25- Sept 4, 2005 for an international Literature and Cultural Festival.

http://www.odysseydream.com

Fever Fundraiser
Saturday, August 20, 8pm, $5
The Fig Tree, 1641 SE 35th Place - Portland, OR, USA
The Vinos, iretsu, EMBA, readings by Trevino Brings Plenty and Matthew Nicely, media by Fever Theater.