Back in July of 1997, Nico posted a bunch of flyers around Boston that said:



The first person to call him was a girl named Wendy. She was in Boston for the summer, having one year left in college in NY, but she said she'd move back to Boston after graduation.

He received a few more calls after that, including one from a professional dominatrix and several Berklee students who all said they wanted to be a in a project.

Later that year, Nico was joined by Brandon, jazz drummer extraordinaire (they'd played together in a Quintet back in college).

Trocadero played its first show on November 3, 1997, at TT The Bear's place in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Since then, the band has played more shows around Boston, recorded some stuff, hibernated, played some more shows, recorded some more stuff, hibernated, toured, hibernated, recorded some more stuff, put out a CD, shortly after which Wendy left the band to join another Boston act. Trocadero hibernated some more, and in 2007, the band was joined by Martha Williams on slide guitar and vocals, and Jeff Williams (no relation) on keyboards. 2009 saw the band's second release, Ghosts That Linger.

In recent years, Trocadero has shifted from its origins as a three-piece rock band to welcoming collaborations from guest musicians thus going back, in a sense, to the oldest and most literal meaning of the name Trocadero, which is "a place of trade" in 16th Century Portugese.


Image courtesy of Mark Stivers