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Check out this video of the Punch Brothers’ Noam Pikelny with Michael Daves at the Brooklyn Folk Festival last night. More music all day today- doors open at 11:45am on Saturday! Info and lineup at http://www.brooklynfolkfest.com/events.
Today’s show will feature Jackson Lynch, the East River String Band, M Shanghai String Band, The Calamity Janes, Blind Boy Paxton, The Little Brothers and many more!
“Some still like the old ways best. For 25 years, MerleFest has drawn fans of roots music—a broad term encompassing numerous genres of American folk music—to the charming little town of Wilkesboro, in North Carolina’s Brushy Mountains. This year around 80,000 attended the four-day event. Headline acts included Los Lobos, a band from East Los Angeles that blends rock and American folk with Mexican genres such as norteño; Bela Fleck, a banjo player and composer whose music sounded like a marriage of bluegrass and the Grateful Dead; and the Punch Brothers, a talented young band comprising the traditional five bluegrass instruments but with an extraordinarily wide range (their bluegrass version of Radiohead’s “Kid A” is, against all expectations, revelatory: by using a bowed bass for the vocal part, they highlight that in the original version, Thom Yorke was less a singer than just another band member, using his muffled and electrified voice as just another instrument).”
July 4th- put it on your calendar today…. Madison Square Park announces a great roots music show as part of their 10th anniversary programming.
July 4th, 2012
Noam Pikelny and Friends I 3pm
Virtuosic banjo player Noam Pikelny headlines MSPC’s 10-year anniversary July 4 celebration with his band of friends including Aoife O’ Donovan (Crooked Still), Gabe Witcher (Punch Brothers), Chris Eldridge (Punch Brothers) and Mark Schatz (Claire Lynch Band). Part of the acclaimed bluegrass group Punch Brothers and winner of the first Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Banjo and Bluegrass Music, Pikelny is, “a player of unlimited range and astonishing precision,” (Steve Martin).
The Sweetback Sisters
The Sweetback Sisters Emily Miller and Zara Bode may not be blood relations, but their precise, family-style harmonies recall the best of country music from the Everlys to The Judds, as well as the spirited rockabilly energy of Wanda Jackson, one of the band’s role models. Like the artists they admire, the Sweetbacks are concerned with the traditional subjects of heartbreak, revenge, remorse and staying strong in the face of relationships gone wrong, albeit with a contemporary sensibility. The Boston Globe says, “If you think the concepts of hipster Brooklynites and classic country music are mutually exclusive, allow us to introduce you to this swinging sextet. Fronted by the closely harmonizing duo of Zara Bode and Emily Miller, the zingy group is simultaneously reverent of tradition and contemporaneously cheeky.”
Spuyten Duyvil
“Spuyten Duyvil,” Dutch slang for “in spite of the devil” as well as the creek connecting the Harlem and Hudson Rivers, is a new band of eight old souls playing and singing their hearts out. Led by husband and wife duo Mark Miller (guitar, Bouzouki, vocals) and Beth Jamie Kaufman (vocals) they lean on the history, folklore and sounds of the last 100 years to craft an energetic bluesy, bluegrass, jug band, Old Timey influenced force. Featuring guitar, dobro, fiddle, mandolin and lap steel, harmonica, drums, bass and rich multi-part harmonies, Spuyten Duyvil is, “one of the best bands to emerge on the Americana scene in the last year,” (John Platt, WFUV).
This video was filmed partially at Brooklyn’s Jalopy Theatre. It also features John McEuen and Steve Arkin. It’s worth your three minutes.
floralandflannel: Punch Brothers’ jam session and interview for Vanity Fair
(via fuckyeahbluegrass)
ngeremia:Crooked Still- Ecstasy, with Noam Pikelny filling in on banjo.
Funnyordie: Bluegrass Diva with Steve Martin, Ed Helms and Noam Pikelny: Renowned banjo player Noam Pikelny’s new Compass Records album Beat the Devil and Carry A Rail narrowly escapes creative failure with help from his Bluegrass community friends: Steve Martin, Ed Helms, Earl Scruggs, Béla Fleck, Chris Thile, Gillian Welch, and Dave Rawlings.
Noam Pikelny and his superstar friends at Rockwood Music Hall December 15th
December 15 - 10:30pm at Rockwood Music Hall, an Evening with Noam Pikelny & Friends featuring:
Aoife O’Donovan (Crooked Still),
Gabe Witcher (Punch Brothers),
Chris Eldridge (Punch Brothers),
Jesse Cobb (Infamous Stringdusters), &
Free track from Noam Pikelny’s new album, Beat the Devil and Carry the Rail, which will be released from Compass Records on October 25th.
armchairs: “Gonna play a song I wrote for my grandmother… this one’s called Manchicken.” -Noam Pikelny
When I hear this song it occurs to me the best banjo player in the world lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Sarah Jarosz - The Tourist
lovethrowsaline: Sarah Jarosz’ cover of Radiohead’s “The tourist”, featuring Punch Brothers.
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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)
