Post by bryanstone on Aug 13, 2007 14:41:29 GMT -5
Imagine my suprise when I saw that one of my favorite bands, Crooked Still, is playing at the Lebanon Opera House!
From the L.O.H. website:
The First Annual Upper Valley Bluegrass Festival
Featuring: The Greencards & Sam Bush on Friday, November 16
Crooked Still & the Del McCoury Band on Saturday, November 17.
Though he admits a certain discomfort with the moniker “King of Newgrass,” Sam Bush has more than earned it. As cofounder and leader of the seminal progressive bluegrass band New Grass Revival, Bush may not be the only person responsible for newgrass, the wild bluegrass stepchild that features rock & roll grooves and extended virtuosic jams, but since New Grass Revival’s dissolution in 1989, Bush has certainly been one of the most brilliant of newgrass’s many bright lights.
Besides helming the ever-popular Sam Bush Band, featured on the upcoming release Laps in Seven, the mandolin prodigy from Kentucky has been a prodigious influence on musicians young and old. Bands like Nickel Creek, Yonder Mountain String Band, and String Cheese Incident, to name just a few, are indebted to Bush’s example, not only in his wide-ranging choice of material and rock-based acoustic grooves, but by his captivating, high-energy live shows, which have made him an in demand headliner, and fan fave at important festivals like Telluride and MerleFest. When not heading his own band, Bush has spent the past 15 years as a supersideman with the likes of Emmylou Harris, Lyle Lovett, and the Flecktones; spearheaded boundary-stretching collaborations with Edgar Meyer, Mark O’Connor, and David Grisman, and driven nearly every “bluegrass supergroup” imaginable with his inimitable mandolin playing.
When speed doesn’t kill, it can thrill, and the lightning-strike success of The Greencards has been decidedly of the latter variety. To be them is to be on a rocket ship disguised as a touring van, on a highway where there are no speed limits. Four short years ago, a green card was an immigration document. Now The Greencards are an acoustic music phenomenon that’s played around the world, headlined major festivals, won awards, and toured the US with Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson. Named Best New Band at the Austin Music Awards in 2004, The Houston Chronicle ranked their live show among the city’s top five nights of music of the year. Nominated for New/Emerging Artist of the Year at the Americana Awards in 2004, The Greencards won that prize in the fall of 2006, continuing their rapid rise to full-fledged citizenship among acoustic music’s most acclaimed bands.
Meet Crooked Still, the hot young alternative bluegrass group on a mission to bend the boundaries of traditional music. The unlikely combination of banjo, cello, and double-bass drives this low lonesome band, whose soaring vocals and high-wire solos have enraptured audiences all over North America and Ireland since 2001. Four very unique musical personalities merge to form Crooked Still. Aoife O’Donovan's refined, sultry vocals float over Rushad Eggleston's rumbling cello riffs, Dr. Gregory Liszt’s futuristic four-finger banjo rolls and Corey DiMario’s pulsing bass lines. The resulting acoustic fusion can warp a traditional American tune to the brink of unrecognizability without sacrificing the authenticity of the original sources. “It's almost like we're going back and making imaginary history,” says Eggleston, whose versatile cello style has already sparked a revolution among young cellists. “What if the 1920s Appalachian musicians could’ve heard the music we hear now?”
Throughout his illustrious career, Del McCoury has embodied the best qualities of bluegrass. From the genre’s formative years in the 1960’s when McCoury played with Bill Monroe and Lester Flatt, to more recent collaborations with folks like Phish and Steve Earle, Del’s love for life and this music is contagious. At the age of 67, McCoury is at the height of his game, and has become a major force in bringing bluegrass to a wider audience. McCoury—along with his band—has now won more International Bluegrass Music Association awards than any other artist in the genre’s history with a total of nearly 40 individual and group citations from the IBMA—including a whopping nine “Entertainer Of The Year” honors, been nominated for six Grammys (winning his first in 2007), has seen his videos welcomed by CMT, joined the venerated Grand Ole Opry and represented the cream of the bluegrass crop on national television.
Regularly drawing SRO crowds, The Del McCoury Band may well boast the broadest, most inclusive fan base this side of the Grateful Dead. They are undeniably one of the most talented, revered and vital groups in bluegrass history (and one of the most potent bands in any field today). The Washington Post recently hailed Del “a national treasure,” while numerous music publications have credited The Del McCoury Band with increasing the bluegrass “hip factor,” generating much of the genre’s steady upswing in popularity with a more youthful crowd. Equally welcome at traditional bluegrass festivals, jam band gatherings, and the most prestigious music venues in America-from Merlefest, to Bonnaroo to Carnegie Hall, Del McCoury has proven not to be a relic of bluegrass music’s past, but an architect of its future.
Links:
Lebanon Opera House events calander:
www.lebanonoperahouse.org/events/events_main.asp
Crooked Still:
www.crookedstill.com/
Sam Bush:
www.sambush.com/
Del McCoury Band:
www.delmccouryband.com/
The Greencards:
www.thegreencards.com/
From the L.O.H. website:
The First Annual Upper Valley Bluegrass Festival
Featuring: The Greencards & Sam Bush on Friday, November 16
Crooked Still & the Del McCoury Band on Saturday, November 17.
Though he admits a certain discomfort with the moniker “King of Newgrass,” Sam Bush has more than earned it. As cofounder and leader of the seminal progressive bluegrass band New Grass Revival, Bush may not be the only person responsible for newgrass, the wild bluegrass stepchild that features rock & roll grooves and extended virtuosic jams, but since New Grass Revival’s dissolution in 1989, Bush has certainly been one of the most brilliant of newgrass’s many bright lights.
Besides helming the ever-popular Sam Bush Band, featured on the upcoming release Laps in Seven, the mandolin prodigy from Kentucky has been a prodigious influence on musicians young and old. Bands like Nickel Creek, Yonder Mountain String Band, and String Cheese Incident, to name just a few, are indebted to Bush’s example, not only in his wide-ranging choice of material and rock-based acoustic grooves, but by his captivating, high-energy live shows, which have made him an in demand headliner, and fan fave at important festivals like Telluride and MerleFest. When not heading his own band, Bush has spent the past 15 years as a supersideman with the likes of Emmylou Harris, Lyle Lovett, and the Flecktones; spearheaded boundary-stretching collaborations with Edgar Meyer, Mark O’Connor, and David Grisman, and driven nearly every “bluegrass supergroup” imaginable with his inimitable mandolin playing.
When speed doesn’t kill, it can thrill, and the lightning-strike success of The Greencards has been decidedly of the latter variety. To be them is to be on a rocket ship disguised as a touring van, on a highway where there are no speed limits. Four short years ago, a green card was an immigration document. Now The Greencards are an acoustic music phenomenon that’s played around the world, headlined major festivals, won awards, and toured the US with Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson. Named Best New Band at the Austin Music Awards in 2004, The Houston Chronicle ranked their live show among the city’s top five nights of music of the year. Nominated for New/Emerging Artist of the Year at the Americana Awards in 2004, The Greencards won that prize in the fall of 2006, continuing their rapid rise to full-fledged citizenship among acoustic music’s most acclaimed bands.
Meet Crooked Still, the hot young alternative bluegrass group on a mission to bend the boundaries of traditional music. The unlikely combination of banjo, cello, and double-bass drives this low lonesome band, whose soaring vocals and high-wire solos have enraptured audiences all over North America and Ireland since 2001. Four very unique musical personalities merge to form Crooked Still. Aoife O’Donovan's refined, sultry vocals float over Rushad Eggleston's rumbling cello riffs, Dr. Gregory Liszt’s futuristic four-finger banjo rolls and Corey DiMario’s pulsing bass lines. The resulting acoustic fusion can warp a traditional American tune to the brink of unrecognizability without sacrificing the authenticity of the original sources. “It's almost like we're going back and making imaginary history,” says Eggleston, whose versatile cello style has already sparked a revolution among young cellists. “What if the 1920s Appalachian musicians could’ve heard the music we hear now?”
Throughout his illustrious career, Del McCoury has embodied the best qualities of bluegrass. From the genre’s formative years in the 1960’s when McCoury played with Bill Monroe and Lester Flatt, to more recent collaborations with folks like Phish and Steve Earle, Del’s love for life and this music is contagious. At the age of 67, McCoury is at the height of his game, and has become a major force in bringing bluegrass to a wider audience. McCoury—along with his band—has now won more International Bluegrass Music Association awards than any other artist in the genre’s history with a total of nearly 40 individual and group citations from the IBMA—including a whopping nine “Entertainer Of The Year” honors, been nominated for six Grammys (winning his first in 2007), has seen his videos welcomed by CMT, joined the venerated Grand Ole Opry and represented the cream of the bluegrass crop on national television.
Regularly drawing SRO crowds, The Del McCoury Band may well boast the broadest, most inclusive fan base this side of the Grateful Dead. They are undeniably one of the most talented, revered and vital groups in bluegrass history (and one of the most potent bands in any field today). The Washington Post recently hailed Del “a national treasure,” while numerous music publications have credited The Del McCoury Band with increasing the bluegrass “hip factor,” generating much of the genre’s steady upswing in popularity with a more youthful crowd. Equally welcome at traditional bluegrass festivals, jam band gatherings, and the most prestigious music venues in America-from Merlefest, to Bonnaroo to Carnegie Hall, Del McCoury has proven not to be a relic of bluegrass music’s past, but an architect of its future.
Links:
Lebanon Opera House events calander:
www.lebanonoperahouse.org/events/events_main.asp
Crooked Still:
www.crookedstill.com/
Sam Bush:
www.sambush.com/
Del McCoury Band:
www.delmccouryband.com/
The Greencards:
www.thegreencards.com/