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Friday Bluegrass Fix: Greensky Bluegrass at Sullivan Hall
Today, Friday, Sept. 16 you can catch Greensky Bluegrass w/ special guest The Wild Northern at 10:30 pm at Sullivan Hall.
“GREENSKY BLUEGRASS is one of the most exciting bands in today’s music scene. Like a breath of fresh air, this five piece band plays traditional bluegrass instruments and uses them to create original songs and soundscapes that are unique and new, yet somehow feel comfortable and familiar. Though they have been likened to ‘70s era Americana acts like The Band, Greenskywould prefer not to be compared to any other bands. ‘We really just try to make music as a group that sounds and feels right to us’, says mandolin player Paul Hoffman, later adding that “it is nice to know that other people really dig it, too.’”
On Tuesday, September 13th, the Andy Statman Trio, with special guests Charles Giordano and “Thirsty” Dave Hansen, will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the father of bluegrass at the Charles Street Synagogue, 53 Charles Street (Charles and West 4th). Many toasts will be raised. 9 PM, more or less.
Andy Statman Trio + Noam Pikelny Tuesday, July 12th at The Charles Street Synagogue
Noam Pikelny, one of the Punch Brothers and a bright light on the contemporary bluegrass and acoustic music scenes, will be the last special guest at the Charles Street Synagogue tomorrow night:
Tuesday evening July 12th @ 9 PM
The Charles Street Synagogue
53 Charles St (@ West 4th) in the West Village
Andy Statman, clarinet & mandolin
Jim Whitney, bass
Larry Eagle, drums, percussion
and special guest
Noam Pikelny, banjo
(Andy and Larry will also play an evening of duets Thursday July 14th, same time and place, and then they are off until mid-August)
Union Street Preservation Society EP release concert at Jalopy July 24
Brooklyn-based string band Union Street Preservation Society kicks off the release of their debut EP Sunday, July 24th at 7:30pm at the celebrated Jalopy Theatre in Red Hook. Fresh from sharing the stage with Greensky Bluegrass, Cornmeal and Max Creek, the quintet is “tasty and alive” (GlideMagazine.com) — their spirited vocals and runaway-train instrumentals breathe fire and soul into their original blend of bluegrass, blues and early jazz. With fellow Americana roots group The Third Wheel Band starting off the evening, it’s sure to be a night of electricity and a rip-roaring, foot-stomping good show. 315 Columbia St., Brooklyn, NY 11231. $5 cover. More information is here.
Day One of the Brooklyn Folk Festival Tonight at Jalopy
Here’s the lineup for tonight:
Friday, June 10th
At The Jalopy Theatre
6:00 PM Winston Fleary and the Big Drum Nation Dance Company
7:00 PM Jay Gandhi
8:00 PM Major Contay & The Canebreak Rattlers
8:45 PM Uncle Monk
9:30 PM Peter Stampfel & The Ether Frolic Mob
10:15 PM Feral Foster
11:00 PM Jake Sanders Sextet
12:00 PM Midnight Mystery Film Screening
See what people have been saying about the Brooklyn Folk Festival:
Porter Wagoner - One Way Ticket to the Blues (by Gatorrock787)
Uploaded in Better Quality. One of my favorites from Porter.
The Weal and Woe at Parkside Lounge, Saturday, May 28th at 8 pm
Fiddler Jason Cade writes that his band The Weal and Woe will play Saturday May 28 at The Parkside Lounge on the Lower East Side with the Stony Hawk Boys. The show starts at 8 pm.
The Weal and Woe “pluck overlooked gems from the 1940s, ’50s, and ’60s, add original songs reinterpreting classic themes for modern times, and bring the chops for vintage western swing instrumentals.” Barbara Ann (bass & vocals), Russell Scholl (guitar & vocals), Jason Cade (fiddle & banjo) and Mark Deffenbaugh (lap steel).
The Stony Hawk Boys are a new group comprised of violin luthier Nathaniel Rowan on banjo and North Carolina fiddler Jason Cade. Brought together by a shared love of both skateboarding and raw oldtime music, the Stony Hawk Boys resurrect and then “play the hell out of raucous 19th Century fiddle tunes from Kentucky and North Carolina.”
somecallmezhuka: Trampled by Turtles, Darkness and Light
20/20-vision, walking ‘round blind.
Four upcoming events featuring bluegrass music in New York City
I’ve received notices about a handful of upcoming events in the New York area that will feature bluegrass music.
1: This afternoon you can take in a show that features bluegrass music: WHAT HAPPENED IN OHIO. Today, Sunday May 22nd at 5pm at the New York Theatre Workshop at the Fourth Street Theatre, 83 E 4th Street between Bowery & 2nd Avenue. Tickets are $18 and can be purchased here.
2. Next weekend, Memorial Day weekend, take the ferry to Governor’s Island. The Governors Island season kicks off with the city’s ultimate picnic. Event includes food vendors from tacos to ice cream to lobster rolls and other street food, beer, and live entertainment like ukulele and bluegrass musicians. Kids 12 and under are free with parents. Tickets are available at www.brewerspicnyc.com
3. Panorama Cafe in Queens will be hosting its first Old-Time & Bluegrass Open Mic on Thursday, June 2. Come bring your instruments and voice to this unique open mike, or sit back, relax and enjoy the music. Sign Up is at 7 pm and the music starts at 7:30 pm. Panorama cafe is at 84-73 Parsons Blvd. in Jamaica. For more information email mail@panoramacafe.org or visit www.PanoramaCafe.org.
4. Then, in June, visit “Bluegrass for the Grassroots”. Enjoy oldtime fiddle music by the Two Lost Turkeys (pictured above) while supporting the work of Doctors for Global Health in marginalized communities around the world. 2710 Broadway, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10025 Date and Time: June 9, 2011, 8:00-10:00pm
Virginia’s Crooked Road profiled in the New York Times
The New York Times has an excellent piece on Virginia’s Crooked Road music trail in the travel section today. The Crooked Road is a designation given to a number of locations in Virginia’s foot hills and Blue Ridge mountain towns where Appalachian old time and bluegrass music is prevalent. The article is accompanied by a nice video of stills.
Take a drive through the dozens of one-stoplight towns that are planted along highways that twist through this region’s blue hills and green valleys, and you’ll find that music is the manna of the community…. Fries was my first stop on the music trail known as the Crooked Road — an official designation of the state ofVirginia since 2004. The heritage of the path can be found in this dance, in that tune, learned by ear from house to house and passed down through generations. The Road isn’t one single highway — it’s a roughly 300-mile series of interconnected two-lane byways and long stretches of Route 58, which skims Virginia’s North Carolina and Tennessee borders all the way to Kentucky. The sound here is Appalachian: mountain music.
I grew up near to the start of the Crooked Road in the eastern foothills of the Blue Ridge, in Virginia’s Piedmont. Floyd is a regular pilgrimmage for me; driving Route 40 past Rocky Mount, Ferrum and on to Woolwine, snaking up Route 8 is one of my favorite drives. If you get that way, make sure you get to drive the Road.
Shows tonight- Saturday, May 21st
Ramblin’ Andy and the See Ya Laters
Brooklyn County Fair tonight at Jalopy with The Ramblers, The Newton Gang, Mary Bragg, Dina Rudeen, and Tyne Darling. $10 8pm; Free Six Point Beer!
The Whistlin’ Wolves at Banjo Jim’s at 10 pm
Spoonville at Freddy’s Bar in Park Slope South 9 pm
Various Artists - Earl Scruggs / Till The End Of The World Rolls Round
More music to prepare you for today’s rapture:
Earl Scruggs - Till the End of the World Rolls Round
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