Let’s Get to Know Each Other.

Chris’s parents met at a club in St. Charles, Missouri. His dad played trombone and tuba in a band; his mom is an Elvis purist who would later lead family pilgrimages to Graceland every couple of years, so clearly music is in Chris’s DNA. He started writing songs as a kid and joined his first band in high school. He moved to Chicago to study film and art at Columbia College, and has since become an important contributor to our music community, playing with several bands, pursuing his own songwriting project Judson Claiborne, and most recently working on a podcast opera called The Fruit Stare, named for the foraging habits of orangutans (look it up). During the school year, Chris works as a teaching artist with CPS, helping third- through eighth-graders make theater and performance art about social issues they care about. During the summer months, he’s finding harmony working in his garden in Albany Park.