Fred Mascherino Acoustic (The Color Fred, ex-Taking Back Sunday)
Will Hibbits
Doors 7:00PM / Show 8:00PM
$15 ADV / $17 DOS
This is a seated show.
Fred Mascherino is an American musician best known for his work as lead guitarist and co-lead vocalist in alternative rock band Taking Back Sunday. He is currently active with the band The Color Fred, and also known for working with Terrible Things. He also runs the record label Heading East Records.
From 1992 to 1999, Mascherino was in a PA based band named Brody, It was during this time that he met Eddie Reyes, then of Clockwise, who would later found Taking Back Sunday.] Brody released a 7-inch EP on Creep Records entitled "Against Forgetting" and a full-length CD entitled "Worth Dying For" on Harvest records. The band was also featured on several compilations, including Blackout! Records' "Punk Rock Jukebox."
In 2000, after Brody broke up, Mascherino became lead singer and guitarist for Breaking Pangaea, a band from Philadelphia. They were taken on by Florida label Undecided Records, and produced EP "Take Apart the Words" and full-length CD "A Cannon to a Whisper". In May 2003, Breaking Pangaea released an EP entitled "Phoenix" through Equal Vision Records.
Mascherino joined Taking Back Sunday in 2003, replacing original guitarist/singer John Nolan after Nolan left the band with bassist Shaun Cooper to pursue different musical interests with Straylight Run. During his stint with Taking Back Sunday, Mascherino was a major collaborator, and was responsible for co-writing the majority of Louder Now, as well as many songs from Where You Want To Be. In 2006 Fred left the band to work on his solo project, The Color Fred.
The Color Fred is Mascherino's solo project. On October 30, 2007, Equal Vision Records released a full-length CD for the project titled "Bend to Break". Although considered a solo project, Fred was joined on the recording by Steve Curtiss on drums, PJ Bond on bass and backing vocals and Keys/piano played by Breaking Pangaea bassist, Clint Stelfox. At the time of the CD's release, the group was on tour with Straylight Run followed by tours with Angels and Airwaves, The Vans Warped Tour and the Give It A Name Tour in the UK with Four Year Strong and Mayday Parade.
On April 18, 2009, an acoustic CD titled, The Color Fred "The Intervention EP" was released to commemorate Record Store Day. The CD had acoustic versions and demos of songs from "Bend to Break" as well as unreleased songs. Fred supported this release playing acoustic on tours with Craig Owens and The Summer Aesthetic.
On April 1, 2022, having reunited with a new lineup three years prior, The Color Fred released its sophomore album, A Year and Change, on indie label Heading East Records, which was founded by Mascherino earlier in the year.[9]
Fred has also toured with the Lemonheads and Say Anything over the last decade, most recently appearing on the latter’s 2023 newly released single. Fred will play a set of various songs from his long storied recording history.