“Don’t forget”. “Don’t forget what?”, Dan said to Dan with a smile.
For almost a decade these two have been sharing smiles with each other, but now have something fantastic to smile about, their second and first full band CD entitled “Don’t Forget”. The two polar opposites sat straight legged and cool on the leather couch. As an Italian guy and an Englishman respectively, the two band together to bring you some of the best up and coming bluegrass in the state and country. Dan Carlucci and Dan Tressler are two Dans born to play music together, and The String Fingers Band is their brainchild. Bluegrass reinvented never sounded so tasty. Beginning as two young men on different musical paths, they have bonded and begun a unified musical exploration
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Soon after recording and producing their own album, “String Fingers” became “The String Fingers Band”, with the addition of Ryan McAdams (stand-up bass), David Kaye (banjo, dobro, steel pedal) and Rob Bonnacorso (drums and percussion). “If the other three were here with us right now they would tell you that this is the finest group of musicians that any of us have had a chance to play with. For some reason it just all falls into place, and tells us we should keep at this thing,” said Carlucci. The three new members all bring something interesting to the table; Rob is the Rock and Roller, Ryan brings in the jazz aspect and David who brings the newest sound to this melting pot of music, supplies the steel country guitar. "I have played with many bands before, but the consistency of the String Fingers' musical drive is what makes the difference for me" said Tressler. "I have never had so much fun and success than co-writing music with Dan Carlucci. We first started writing together on a car ride to a bluegrass festival and that was the foundation of what we are building …show more content…
They also find themselves playing gigs in Boston, Burlington, and all around the upper east coast. They recently have been booked to play at Nectars Restaurant, a music hot spot in Burlington, Vermont. Nectars is the Toads Place of the north if you will, and famous American rock band Phish got their start there. Kung Fu another local band from the Fairfield County area has also been booked to play there, proving that the community is cranking out some great music.
After meeting up with Rob Bonaccorso at Cranbury Park in Wilton, he had this to say amongst the amazing scenery, “Its beautiful music. It’s the most beautiful music you can play, and it’s so fun. We go to a show, and we are there to play music, seriously, it's our job," he said. "We read the crowd, try a few things out and stick with the genre that's the best fit for our
Ringing in the New Year, we’ve chosen an individual who has created his own music and created interesting remixes of other songs over the course of (now) 16 years. We enjoy the twists he plays on his music and admire his efforts to take his music to live performance stage. Local to Brick Township, NJ, Brian Stewart (DJversion666) started out, born and raised, in Evansville Indiana, playing in a multitude of bands, playing bass and/or singing various genres of music. Upon moving to Nashville, he has done studio work, laying down bass tracks for commercials and advertisements. Continuing down the path of music Stewart attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. He combines various genres and ties them all together with an industrial sound.
After reading the play “Songcatcher”, by Darby Fitzgerald, as well as looking at an interview done with Evie Mark, their stories revealed the same key concepts; the dilemmas they face while trying to revive Native American Music. Both of these men felt as if they needed to prove who they were to everyone around them. Making the journey to find the music from inside them a very personal one. The prime focuses in each are the struggles they face to revive the music passed down through their cultures history. They also show the persistence they have to “rekindle the fire” or the love music, within today’s younger Native generation. Both stories are inspirational to the identity crisis within these nations.
The Concert Band. New York: Rinehart and Company, Inc., 1946. Print. The. Rhodes, Stephen.
The Dave Matthews Band has been a musical power house for years. They have meshed together almost every type of music together to create their extremely unique sounds and attractiveness towards their music. Dave Matthews, lead singer and guitarist from South Africa has put together a band that no one will ever be able to create again. Dave picked four extremely talented and unique sounding men to join his band and together they have created some amazing music. The members of the band include Stefan Lessard on bass, Boyd Tinsley on violin, Leroi Moore on saxophone and one of the best drummers in the world, Carter Beauford. Together these men will one day leave behind a similar reputation as one of the all time greatest "jam" bands of time.
Scott, A. "Got Their Musical Mojo Working." New York Times 05 12 2008, C1. Print. .
Personnel: Jim Creeggan: electric bass, vocals, double bass, and viola. Kevin Hearn: piano, symth, vocals, and guitar. Steven Page: Vocals. Ed Robertson: Acoustic and electric guitars, vocals. Tyler Stewart: drums, vocals, and percussion.
On Tuesday, October 17, 2017, I attended a musical concert. This was the first time I had ever been to a concert and did not play. The concert was not what I expected. I assumed I was going to a symphony that featured a soloist clarinet; however, upon arrival I quickly realized that my previous assumptions were false. My experience was sort of a rollercoaster. One minute I was down and almost asleep; next I was laughing; then I was up and intrigued.
George Helmholtz, as the head of the music department at Lincoln High School, is very determined with his regular students and the gifted musicians of the band. Each semester and year at school he dreams of “leading as fine a band as there was on the face of the earth. And each year it came true”. His certainty that it was true was because he believed there was no greater dream than his. His students were just as confident and in response, they played their hearts out for them. Even the students with “no talent played on guts alone” for Helmholtz.
Jimmy Page played guitar, Robert Plant was the vocalist, John Paul Jones played bass guitar and the keyboard, and John Bonham beat the drums. The group had the complete set up for a band right off the start. They produced their first record in thirty hours to complete their deal with the old Yardbirds. They toured Scandinavia for awhile also to complete their obligations to the Yardbirds.
The band created in 1971 by Jeff Lynne, Roy Wood, and Bev Bevan used cellos and violins to create a classical sound. Although Roy Wood left shortly after their first record was released. The idea came about when Jeff Lynne said to Roy Wood, “‘What if we had a band with strings- real strings?’” (Wild 9) They were in The Move at the time and decided to create a band on the side. They called this experimental band The Electric Light Orchestra. “Of the groups name Lynne remembers, ‘At the time people thought ‘ELO’ was pretty bad. It was like ‘The Electric Light what?’ The name was as wacky as the idea really.’” (Wild 9)
Through out history, music has played a big role. It has let people communicate and others release their creative minds. Throughout the life of music, instruments have made it happen. The guitar has become one of the most popular of all instruments. In fact, almost every band heard on the radio has a lead guitar accompanying the vocals. Thanks to the greats like B.B. King, Jimi Hendrix, Andres Segovia, and Eric Clapton the guitar has been made the lead instrument in much of music. With contributions from each one of these legendary players, the guitar is used in a variety of styles; heavy metal to classical.
Although no one person can claim to have invented bluegrass music its humble beginnings can be traced to one band that took advantage of the popular new phonograph. This band called “Bill Mo...