Mike Babyak's Triple Fret is an electric ensemble from North Carolina featuring Mike Babyak on lap steel and electric guitars, along with a rotating lineup of great instrumentalists, including E. Scott Warren on bass, Mike Rosado on percussion, and Leo Kishore on bass. Also look for special guests like Coty Cockrell on keyboards, Doug Carter, Scott Sawyer and Steve Kimock on guitar and Hank Smith on banjo. Come visit us at our myspace page!!!

Mike is also part of an acoustic prog act, called Monkey Navigated Robots, which includes New Day recording artist, Hank Smith on banjo, E. Scott Warren on bass, and Mike Rosado on drums. 

Follow us on Twitter @MikeBabyakMusic and Facebook.

Next Shows

July 4 at the American Tobacco Historic District. Three bands on the bill, we'll go on at 5:15.

CLICK HERE to download high quality flac files, mp3s, or to stream.

Here are a few clips from other MNR and Triple Fret shows:

MNR with Special guest Steve Kimock at the Tavern on 2-25-07.

In Memory of Elizabeth Reed with Hank Smith on banjo.
Footprints with Scott Sawyer and Ben Palmer.
Skin a Cat
Monkey Dance
Don't Follow Me Home

Our live release for sale! 

Our live release for sale! Our first "official" live album (still under the name Shape Shifters), "Live at Cat's Cradle," is available by download at emusiclive.com. For those without downloading capabilities, you can purchase a copy for $10 (plus postage) by writing Mike Babyak at triplefret@triplefret.com.

What we look like
Pics from Kurt Schlatzer from Tir Na Nog pub in Raleigh!

Pics by music photojournalist Todd E. Gaul of an appearance at Temple Ball with Wavy Gravy and an earlier show on our own.

Here's video clip from a recent Triple Fret show at the Lincoln Theater: Click here to view the video.
(For best results, right-mouse click the link and select "save as")

Click here for some photos of of Mike's acoustic set last fall with his old buddy, Steve Kimock, courtesy of Todd Gaul. To hear this set, click HERE.

Press
Read a review of our show at the Lincoln Theater with Perpetual Groove at Homegrownmusic.com. (The review is the second one on the page.)

News

1/1/05
As part of a benefit for the Elaine A. Battaligno Charity fund, Mike Babyak and his old pal Steve Kimock performed an acoustic set at the de la Luz Performance Space in Carrboro, on Nov 13. Our little show raised about $250 for the EAB Fund, and the total for the night, which included a marvelous electric set later that evening by the Steve Kimock Band, was over $5000!! Congrats to all of you for supporting this worthy cause. You can download a copy of the acoustic set here. Wanna full-size copy of the poster above and further help the EAB fund? Visit eabfund.org and look for the EAB "Store" link.

9/11/04
Mannerland!
What a great festival!! Old friend Jim Kost treated us with a dee-licious special guest appearance on keyboards for most of the set. Thanks to all the kind folks for the warm reception and hospitality. Special thanks to the boys from Barefoot Manner for making this all happen, and even more special-er thanks to Hank and Jeff for their guest appearances in our set. Click here for some pics!

9/11/04
We're up on the LAMA!!!!
The Live Music Archive, that is. That's right, now you can download live Triple Fret (under the old name Shape Shifters) music for free! Choose individual tracks or entire shows in quick, mp3 format or in high quality .shn or .wav files! Just click the here.

Miscellany

7/1/04
Read a nice little notice we got on raleighmusic.com for an appearance at the Pour House in Raleigh.

Click here to read Mike's interview with Steve Kimock.

Click here for some photos of our appearance with Steve Kimock and Jim Kost.

Click here if you'd like to reach us.