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Post by Mandochris on Sept 10, 2024 7:47:20 GMT
Here is a band breaking through. They are from Korea and as NO ONE plays Bluegrass in Korea they learned how to play Bluegrass entirely on YouTube. Their originality is that they ccompose and sing in Korean, and it works. They really "get" it too - the arrangements, the harmonies, the rhythms are all right for a Bluegrass, but it's in Korean. I invited them to play at my festival in 2022 and they were great. I encouraged to entre a competition to get a grant to showcase in the US last September, which they won. As a result of that they put together a tour this year in June/July and were a huge success. I saw them in California and the audience loved them. They got a standing ovation at the Grand Ole Opry (a place Sir B3na1i visited recently) and generally had a very successful tour. I couldn't find a good quality sound video from that tour so here is a song from when they played my festival in 2022. It was raining but they enchanted the audience, especially when Yebin finished this song with a few words in French. I don't know why, I get goose bumps every time I hear them play - it could be her voice. And before anyone says anything Gongbang in Korean means workshop - as in a music workshop.
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Post by threehundred on Sept 10, 2024 8:00:31 GMT
Here is a band breaking through. They are from Korea and as NO ONE plays Bluegrass in Korea they learned how to play Bluegrass entirely on YouTube. Their originality is that they ccompose and sing in Korean, and it works. They really "get" it too - the arrangements, the harmonies, the rhythms are all right for a Bluegrass, but it's in Korean. I invited them to play at my festival in 2022 and they were great. I encouraged to entre a competition to get a grant to showcase in the US last September, which they won. As a result of that they put together a tour this year in June/July and were a huge success. I saw them in California and the audience loved them. They got a standing ovation at the Grand Ole Opry (a place Sir B3na1i visited recently) and generally had a very successful tour. I couldn't find a good quality sound video from that tour so here is a song from when they played my festival in 2022. It was raining but they enchanted the audience, especially when Yebin finished this song with a few words in French. I don't know why, I get goose bumps every time I hear them play - it could be her voice. And before anyone says anything Gongbang in Korean means workshop - as in a music workshop. Simply stunning! I have a massive smile on my face right now…
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Post by Sir B3na1i on Sept 10, 2024 9:41:51 GMT
During lockdown the drummer of one of my favourite bands, Chain Whip from Canada, decided to do some recording at home. This lead to an album with him playing everything. The album proved really popular, so now he has put a full band together and recorded a second one, which is even better… This is so good... sorry just catching up!
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Post by Sir B3na1i on Sept 10, 2024 10:08:18 GMT
Here is a band breaking through. They are from Korea and as NO ONE plays Bluegrass in Korea they learned how to play Bluegrass entirely on YouTube. Their originality is that they ccompose and sing in Korean, and it works. They really "get" it too - the arrangements, the harmonies, the rhythms are all right for a Bluegrass, but it's in Korean. I invited them to play at my festival in 2022 and they were great. I encouraged to entre a competition to get a grant to showcase in the US last September, which they won. As a result of that they put together a tour this year in June/July and were a huge success. I saw them in California and the audience loved them. They got a standing ovation at the Grand Ole Opry (a place Sir B3na1i visited recently) and generally had a very successful tour. I couldn't find a good quality sound video from that tour so here is a song from when they played my festival in 2022. It was raining but they enchanted the audience, especially when Yebin finished this song with a few words in French. I don't know why, I get goose bumps every time I hear them play - it could be her voice. And before anyone says anything Gongbang in Korean means workshop - as in a music workshop. That was great! The Grand Ole Opry - take me back! I've had so many great nights watching live music but that was up there with the best. I'm sure I've bored you all with this story before, but I'm going to again... When this little unassuming man took to the stage alone with his guitar and started singing a funny little song about a tractor very few people knew who he was, he was introduced as a songwriter and Country Music Hall of Fame member. We clapped and cheered his new song and he thanked us saying we were a very kind audience and that even his family always ask him to play something they know... So he played us something we'd know and it was 'You say it best when you say nothing at all' Mrs B and I looked at each other - that's cool, he wrote that, not my favourite song, but a big song all the same... He then told a story of being a songwriter and having a song in mind to pitch but the person buying always saying 'no, have you got anything else?' he then said, 'So this was one of my something else songs...' and he played The Gambler... feck me spinetingling moment. In the presence of the man who wrote one of the biggest songs of all time and if he'd walked past you on the street you'd have no clue. The man was called Don Schlitz. That whole Nashville / Memphis trip was something special - I got a bit overwhelmed in Sun Studios knowing I was in the room where so much great music that hits my ears today was recorded and that a lot of the kit that was used to make those recordings was in the building with me. I walked around Graceland stunned that I was there. I sat in a packed hockey stadium whilst Tim McGraw wowed the crowd for a couple of hours and even brought the Stanley Cup on stage as the playoffs were happening... But I don't think anything was as cool as Don Schlitz at the Opry. TAKE ME BACK!
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Post by Mandochris on Sept 10, 2024 10:11:50 GMT
I love that story Benny. Thanks for sharing.
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Post by Mandochris on Sept 11, 2024 14:22:05 GMT
A bit late on duty today, sorry. Sister Sadie is a band I have followed and loved for over 10 years. Deanie (fiddle and a good friend) and Gena (banjo) are founding members and the three others are new. Deanie was about ready to retire form the road but has found new energy playing with these "young'uns" all aged around 19-22. This IMO their best line up yet. Women artists, as in most genres, have historically found it difficult to break through in Bluegrass but now there are more and more band leaders and all-female bands. Sister Sadie was one of the first and are just an all-round great, hard driving band. Deanie has toured the world playing fiddle with Emmylou Harris, Patty Loveless and even Bob Seeger (many times). She is gay, menopausal and proud. I love her. This is them playing the Miley Cyrus hit "Flowers" in California last June. Filmed by me so apologies for the dodgy zooms and movement but, damn, they're good. Of course, Miley's dad is Billy Ray Cyrus, legendary country singer, so no stranger to this kind of music herself.
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Post by Mandochris on Sept 12, 2024 9:03:11 GMT
If we're talking about young artists coming into Bluegrass and breaking new ground, taking the genre to gen Z and cetera., I couldn't go through the week without playing some Molly Tuttle - who played at my festival in 2018 when she was on the cusp of breaking through. She wrote this song with her partner Ketch Secor and is performing it with her current band Golden Highway (who i really want to get back for our 20th festival next year, but it's not going to be easy). Anyway, this just shows that Bluegrass ain't just hillbillies playing hillbilly ditties.
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Post by Sir B3na1i on Sept 13, 2024 10:46:01 GMT
If we're talking about young artists coming into Bluegrass and breaking new ground, taking the genre to gen Z and cetera., I couldn't go through the week without playing some Molly Tuttle - who played at my festival in 2018 when she was on the cusp of breaking through. She wrote this song with her partner Ketch Secor and is performing it with her current band Golden Highway (who i really want to get back for our 20th festival next year, but it's not going to be easy). Anyway, this just shows that Bluegrass ain't just hillbillies playing hillbilly ditties. You've shared Molly Tuttle a lot and I'm very grateful for that - this one is a particular favourite
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Post by Mandochris on Sept 13, 2024 11:22:02 GMT
Molly is awesome and as they say over there "badass". I took a while to decide how to finish this week on the new young artists setting the platform for the next generation of Bluegrass. The music is in good hands. This is East Nash Grass. They started as a weekly 6pm Monday jam-cum-show in Dee's Cocktail Lounge and Bar in East Nashville. Highly recommended for your next Nashville trip Sir B3na1i. It's a noisy bar like you see in the movies with a pool table and over in the corner is a small stage with great artists. I have been a few times and every time top musicians come in just to hang and watch the live acts, and maybe join in for a song or two. The music is top notch every night - and not only Bluegrass. You could see blues, honky tonk, country rock, ... Always good. On the Monday at 6 slot, musicians came and played for a show until gradually the band evolved into a real band, called itself East Nash Grass and started touring. They are much in demand on the festival circuit and I was lucky enough to get them this year to La Roche. They are young (in their 20s), hip, rebellious and great musicians who play a mix of old time music and Bluegrass in a resolutely modern way.
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Post by Sir B3na1i on Sept 13, 2024 12:15:01 GMT
What a week! Cheers Chris
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Post by spot51 on Sept 13, 2024 16:25:34 GMT
Hey Mellers Do you mind swapping weeks with me this month? Looks like it is Tone, Chris, Beast, Me then You. I'm on holiday week of 23rd. Could you do that week please then I'll do yours? No problem. But you must include one punk song. Panic over. I've managed to write my 3rd week intros so I'm happy to swap back if you like. PS. There is NO punk.
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Post by OneBeat on Sept 17, 2024 15:51:42 GMT
What's happened this week?
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Post by spot51 on Sept 17, 2024 18:12:46 GMT
What's happened this week? Is it The Beast?
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Post by Mandochris on Sept 17, 2024 19:24:05 GMT
I think so.
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Post by spot51 on Sept 18, 2024 7:28:17 GMT
I'm ready to go next week if the holiday wifi is kosher.
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