Noon Concerts at Trinity Santa Barbara presents Folk Bassoon: A Trinity Backstage Retrospective, 12:15-12:45 p.m. Friday, Nov. 14.

Featured musicians are locals Kate Wallace, vocals and guitar; Doug Clegg, vocals, guitar, violin and accordion; and Bill Wood, vocals and folk bassoon.

Kate Wallace and Doug Clegg (playing violin in this photo) creators of Trinity Backstage, will play along with Bill Wood at the Nov. 14 concert. (Courtesy photo)
Kate Wallace and Doug Clegg, creators of Trinity Backstage, will play along with Bill Wood at the Nov. 14 concert. (Courtesy photo)

The program will include hits from the past and some new cover tunes.

Wallace and Clegg, longtime Trinity parishioners, created Trinity Backstage in the early 2000s. The series ran 2003-19.

Clegg and Wallace recruited a number of their folk music colleagues from all over the U.S, creating “a magical space for some amazing music making over the years,” organizers said.

They asked Wood to collaborate on bassoon at a holiday concert in December 2011 or 2012, and he appeared in a handful of other Trinity Backstage shows until the group called it quits in 2019.

However, the musical genre of “folk bassoon” was born, thanks to Wallace who first used the term.

Clegg and Wallace have appeared on the Noon Concert series every November since 2019 (save during Covid, 2020-21).

On Nov. 14 the musicians will reprise all the tunes they performed with Wood on bassoon over the years.

Thanks to local support, Noon Concerts will be back in 2026. Admission to the concerts is free, although goodwill tax-deductible donations are accepted at the door.