All of you. All over again.....
Sorry it has taken us so long to update everyone on just what The Trapper Keeper is up to. There have been articles written about us recently giving out some false information so all of us at The Trapper Keeper want to get everything out here.We were evicted from our Virginia Drive address, the city of Orlando had issues with "land usage" meaning we could not have assembly-type events in a space deemed for "retail". Sure, we had complaining neighbors but that's not what made us close our doors. We were given three days notice to shut down by November 1st.We were left with the dilemma of not having a space to move our shows to right away. We had to cancel the remaining shows and move out of the space immediately. We were not about to work with Built 4 Speed again. We are grateful to them for helping us start out. It became an unstable enviroment for us, bands and concert goers. There seemed to be a lot of confusion between "Trapper Keeper" events and whatever Built 4 Speed was doing for themselves.This means we are taking some time to do things right, to find one good venue so we can continue to have a place where music can be experienced, art can be seen and someplace people can come socialize to have a good time. It's what we love. It's what we do. In early November we decided not to even pursue looking for the "new" Trapper Keeper until after the holidays. We aren't rushing this. All of us are struggling through our day jobs and other personal things that we can't devote a lot of time right now. So it may be 2-5 months before we get going strong again. It will be better this way for the long haul. We all have our vision of what we would like to bring to Central Florida and we are working towards it.We thank eveyone for being so supportive of us. It started right off the bat back in July. We were so impressed with the bands, promoters and *great* audiences. We hadn't seen such attitudes in this town for quite a while. It made our work exciting and fun. We'll be back soon!Until then, take care,Jeffrey Howard, Lindsay Baldwin, Chris Hawkins & Erica Gibbs.------------------------------------------------------ ------------------