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Two energetic and eclectic multi-instrumental bands in one night
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PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Contact: Rodolfo Betancourt
rudy@swallowhillmusic.org
Laura McGaughey
laura@swallowhillmusic.org
303.765.2488 |
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Denver — Not your typical string band, Boulder Acoustic Society
(BAS) is not only a group of young, extraordinarily gifted multi-instrumentalist
performers—they write music that demonstrates both their love of traditional
music and infuse it with their own style, a rare combination. With an energetic,
expert mix of musical chops and unique instrumentation, Aaron Keim (bass,
ukulele, vocals), Brad Jones (guitar, ukulele, vocals), Scott McCormick
(accordion, ukulele, vocals), Scott Aller (spoons, washboard, Cajun flavors,
hand drums, snare, cymbals), and Kailin Yong (violin, ukulele, vocals) are
taking the acoustic music scene by storm.
BAS has performed all over the country, played a showcase at the
2005 South By Southwest Music conference in Austin, won second place at the 2006
Telluride Bluegrass Festival, presented their own Annual Harvest Moon Hot Jazz
Jubilee, showcased at the 2007 Folk Alliance Conference, and are regulars at
Swallow Hill, having performed in their Café, the 2006 and 2007 Shady Grove
Picnic Concert Series, the Swallow Hill Folk Festival, and the New Roots Music
Celebration. The crowd at the 2006 Folk Festival loved them so much that the
band was asked to do a then unheard of, encore performance at the end of the
night. Their early set and the encore set prompted audience members to get up
and dance and shower the band with hoots and hollers at the end of each song.
Not surprisingly, that same night the band also set a record for the most CDs
sold.
Zebra Junction is Shawn Palmer and Micah Lundy, a multi-instrumentalist
duo who transform a wide range of musical genres, from rock, folk, jazz, blues,
funk, and ragtime, into highly energetic playful collaborations using everything
from vintage to home-made instruments. All together, they have performed and
recorded on more than 100 instruments to this end. Working with their collection
of rare, hybrid instruments, this power duo's Vaudeville approach includes
creative percussion, baritone guitars, and such unconventional instruments as
the banjo-ukulele, a hyper-modified Playskool tape deck used for "skratch," a
toy piano, and numerous samplers and effects to morph "old school" into "no
school." If Tom Waits fronted the White Stripes and had Radiohead's technology,
it might have a sound like Zebra Junction.
These two unique bands with their out-of-the-box sounds will
perform for one special evening at Swallow Hill Music Association's Daniels Hall
stage on Friday, November 30 at 8 p.m.
For
tickets visit
www.swallowhillmusic.org
or call (303) 777-1003. Discounts are available for Swallow Hill members.
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http://www.swallowhillmusic.org/xml/newsroom/rss/SwallowHillNews.xml.
About Swallow Hill Music
Association
Helping people make music since 1979 years, Swallow Hill Music
Association is one of the largest institutions of its kind in the United
States as a source for folk, roots and acoustic music. With more than
2,100 members—some of whom are also volunteers—Swallow Hill provides a
place to celebrate music that is rarely heard elsewhere in the Rocky
Mountain Region. Three concert venues house more than 150 performances a
year, featuring some of the world's great artists as well as up-and-coming
new talent. The Julie Davis Music School at Swallow Hill provides a
valuable and affordable extra-curricular educational resource to the
community with more than 50 music instructors involved in more than 240
adult classes and 70 children's classes annually.
A Tier II member of the Scientific and
Cultural Facilities District (SCFD), Swallow Hill has won both the Mayor's
and Governor's Awards for Excellence in the Arts, countless "Best of
Denver" awards, has been recognized by the the North American Folk
Alliance, and is one of the most sought-after venues by folk and roots
performers in the country.
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