Posted in Asheville, tagged Agent 23, Andi Morrell, Asheville, Bali, Ben Hovey, benefit concert, Gift of Gab, Global Village, green school, Josh Blake's Jukebox, Josh Phillips, Juan Holliday, July, orange peel, Secret B-Sides, Yo Mama's Big Fat Booty BAnd, Zanza on July 11, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Many of Asheville’s most talents musicians are coming together for a benefit concert to raise necessary funding to send Asheville’s own Andi and Maia Morrell to Bali as they grow the global village at the internationally renown Green School.
Performing are: Gift of Gab, Josh Phillips, Juan Holliday and the Secret B-Sides, Zanza, Josh Blake’s Jukebox, Agent 23, Members of Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band, Ben Hovey and more!
Posted in Donna the Buffalo, tagged Americana, Asheville, Carol Rifkin, Dave McCracken, Donna the Buffalo, Jeb Puryear, Kyle Spark, larry campbell, Locket and Key, Music, NAshville, nevins, north carolina, orange peel, roots music, Silverlined, solo CD, Sugar Hill Records, Tara Nevins, Vic Stafford, Wood and Stone on January 31, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Carol Rifkin from the Asheville Citizen times/ Take Five posted this nice preview of Donna the Buffalo for their Orange Peel show on Saturday Jan 29th:
Donna the Buffalo thunders into Asheville’s Orange Peel
by Carol RifkinASHEVILLE – “Have you herd?” Fans of folk-rock band Donna the Buffalo know that phrase means their favorite group is headed to town.
Led by founding members Tara Nevins and Jeb Puryear, Donna the Buffalo has its own brand of socially conscious songwriting and an eclectic instrumental groove that resonates through infectiously danceable music… … …
“We’ve been together 21 years now, a long time,” Nevins said. Even though 11 members have passed through the group over the years, the musical groove, vision and sound have remained consistent and true to the band’s roots.
“Absolutely, I guess that is because Jeb and I are key members and we write all the songs for the band,” Nevins said.
“Jeb and I are so excited because we just love our new band,” Nevins said. “With Vic Stafford on drums, Kyle Spark on bass and Dave McCracken on keyboard, well, they are such great guys and such great musicians that we are having so much fun playing.”
Stafford and Spark both attended Berklee College of Music, played in a college band together and went on to play with Blueground Undergrass before joining Donna the Buffalo.
“It makes for a great rhythm section,” Nevins said.
“The new band formation is really able to put the songs across well and play the songs well. We are riding a high on that right now, and we feel like the songs are coming across in a way that is just really good music,” Nevins said.
The songwriting team of Nevins and Puryear has written more than 140 songs together over the years. The band’s 2008 release, “Silverlined,” on Sugar Hill Records, was its sixth studio release and rose to No. 8 on the Americana music charts.
Nevins’ catchy song “Locket and Key” was a hit on radio.
“At different times in your life different things happen to you,” said Nevins, talking about her songwriting style. “I definitely write songs that come out of experience. I’m better at that than trying to pick a topic.
“Definitely, on ‘Silverlined,’ that has ‘Locket and Key’ on it, that was true. There are a lot of very personal songs on that CD. I had experienced some pretty intense heartbreak, and it comes through,” she said.
Their songwriting skills have evolved and grown over the years.
“If I have something to say, I’m pretty good at it,” she said with a laugh.
In late February the group will head to Nashville and record its next CD on the Sugar Hill label, and it will include a lot of guest artists. Nevins is waiting for the April release of her second solo CD, “Wood and Stone,” on Sugar Hill.
“It’s produced by Larry Campbell, and we recorded it at Levon Helms studio up in Woodstock, N.Y.,” Nevins said.
All but two of the songs on “Wood and Stone” were written by Nevins. The band will play a couple of Nevins’ new tunes at The Orange Peel concert along with its other feel-good crowd favorites.
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Carol Rifkin writes about bluegrass and traditional music for take5. E-mail her atCMRifkin@gmail.com.
READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE: http://m.citizentimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110128/ENT/301280006/-1/pda
Posted in Asheville, Donna the Buffalo, tagged accordion, Acoustic Syndicate, Asheville, B3 Hammond, Band of Horses, Biggie K, Bill Reynolds, Blind Tiger, country, Dave McCracken, David McCracken, Donna the Buffalo, DtB, durham, Folk, Folkswaggin’, Greensboro, Hobex, jam band, Jay Sanders, Jeb Puryear, Kyle Spark, Lightning 100, Louisiana, Loveless Barn, Mercy Lounge, merlefest, Mule to Ride, Music, Music City Roots, NAshville, Nashville Scene, New Album, New York, north carolina, old-time fiddle, orange peel, Q-Bex, rock, roots music, Roy Jay Band, Shakori Hills, Silverlined, soul, south east, Sugar Hill, Sugar Hill Records, Tara Nevins, tour, traditional music, Trumansburg, Wilkesboro, Winston Salem, Wood and Stone, zydeco on January 27, 2011| 1 Comment »
Donna the Buffalo is on for a great weekend heading through Nashville, Greensboro, and Asheville. There are lots of great interviews for the shows which are posted below. Co-band leader, Tara Nevins, kicked of the day yesterday with a solo studio session on the Lightning 100 with Lt Dan. Then the band went over to the Loveless Barn for a Music City Roots performance with other amazing artist including Catie Curtis, The Cleverlys, The Black Lillies, and Rayland Baxter. Check out some wonderful pics from the night here.
DtB will be playing on Cannery Street tonight in Nashville at the Mercy Lounge with the Roy Jay Band, who is on the road with DtB for several shows this winter. Here’s a nice writeup in the Nashville Scene by Edd Hurt about the show:
Photo by Jim Gavenus
Folkies with a superior sense of rhythm are rare enough, but folkies with a good beat and a healthy disrespect for eclectic clichés are a national treasure. Hailing from the metropolis of Trumansburg, N.Y., Donna the Buffalo began playing their mixture of country, soul, zydeco and folk 20 years ago, and they’ve never sounded better. On their 2008 full-length Silverlined, songwriters Tara Nevins and Jeb Puryear came up with such great songs as “Biggie K,” which may be the finest tune ever written about childbirth: “Though her stomach’s stretched and pulled / She’s never been more beautiful.” The quintet’s easy way with American roots music suggests a fusion of Brinsley Schwarz and The Holy Modal Rounders, and they make music that’s beautiful but never prettified. They say they have a couple of projects in the works, including a full-band effort and a solo record by Nevins. Read the original post at nashvillescene.com.
On Friday, January 28th, they head on over to Greensboro, NC to play at the new Blind Tiger. David McCracken, DtB’s B3 Hammond player, grew up in Greensboro and did this great interview with Eddie Huffman from GoTriad.com:
photo by Jim Gavenus
From the moment Greensboro native Dave McCracken first saw Donna the Buffalo play live, at MerleFest in 1997, he knew he belonged in the band.
“I watched them for the first time, and I remember I saw them move the organ across the stage,” McCracken says, speaking by phone from his mother’s house in Liberty. “I said out loud, ‘Man, that should be me.’ Ten years later — 10 years later! — it’s me. I swear, I don’t even know how that happened. I just knew it should be me for some reason.”
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Donna the Buffalo formed in 1989 in upstate New York but has made many N.C. connections in the years since — McCracken and North Wilkesboro’s MerleFest among them. The group signed with Sugar Hill Records, a fixture in Durham for more than two decades before the label moved its offices to Nashville, and the members of Donna the Buffalo founded the twice-yearly Shakori Hills Grassroots Festival of Music and Dance in rural Chatham County, now entering its eighth year.
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Jam band fans already knew McCracken via Folkswaggin’, which started in Greensboro in 1994 and played at the Blind Tiger regularly.
“I really cut my teeth in that place,” he says. “That’s where I learned how to play keyboards. I’ve been playing there since ’97. I’ve gone through a lot of things in that place, and it means a lot to me. I’m looking forward to playing there again. It’s been a long time since I’ve been there.”
In recent years, McCracken has played at the Blind Tiger with Q-Bex, a version of the band Hobex which includes acclaimed drummer Jeff Sipe.
McCracken did a stint in Hobex about 10 years ago, and he played in a metal band called Perpetual Iniquity in Greensboro as a teenager in the late 1980s. But his musical ambitions go all the way back to his early childhood in the 1970s.
“Playing music for a living was seriously a dream I had when I was, like, 3,” McCracken says. “You know how Facebook reunites people so much? I reunited with somebody who was my friend until I was 5. He was like, ‘Wow, you’re playing music for a living.’ He said it wasn’t surprising at all because all I talked about back then was how I wanted to do it.”
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Read the full article at gotriad.news-record.com
Tara Nevins also interviewed for the Blind Tiger show. She spoke with Laura Graff from the Winston-Salem Journal. Here is a bit of the article:
Photo by Lewis Tezak Jr
Donna the Buffalo’s music belongs on the festival circuit — it’s an engaging mix of roots, bluegrass, reggae, country and New Orleans-inspired zydeco. . .
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“We just come from a base of traditional music,” said Tara Nevins, one of the band’s original members. Nevins formed the band with Jeb Puryear, and both play old-time fiddle.
“Over the years of playing fiddle music, we discovered other traditional music,” Nevins said. “We don’t do it on purpose, it’s just that we have a lot of music that we’ve been involved in over the years and that we love.”
Nevins, who started out playing the fiddle, bought an accordion about 20 years ago.
“That gave us a Louisiana flavor to our songs,” she said. “We just have a lot of musical influences, because of some of the different instruments we play, those flavors come out in our music.”
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Nevins just finished work on a solo album, “Wood and Stone,” which will be released on Sugar Hill in April.”Wood and Stone” is her second solo album. The last, “Mule to Ride,” showcased the fiddle and was, Nevins said, more “old-time bluegrass.” This new album, she said, showcases her songwriting.
“I’ve written pretty much everything on the record,” Nevins said. “It’s not all about the fiddle the way the first one was.”
She said the band is planning to return to the studio in late February to work on a new album.
“It’s going to be a collaboration,” Nevins said. “We’re inviting other artists that we’ve played at with festivals over the years — artists we admire.”
Read the full article at www2.journalnow.com
On Saturday, the band jumps on the bus over to Asheville to play the Orange Peel. The Mountain Xpress wrote a nice little blurb about the show and some of DtB’s Asheville connections:
Kyle Spark. Photo by Lewis Tezak Jr.
For years, upstate N.Y.-based, self-desribed “Cajun/ zydeco, rock, folk, reggae and country” band Donna the Buffalo has long had an Asheville connection through it’s bassist. First it was Bill Reynolds (Band of Horses) then Jay Sanders (Acoustic Syndicate). Now DTB has Massachusetts bassist Kyle Spark but the group (who has toured for 21 years) still makes its semi-annual trek South (DTB is likely to pop up at regional warm-weather festivals). . .
Read the original post at: mountainx.com
Great weekend in store. We hope to see lots of the Herd around for these SouthEast shows!
Posted in Asheville, Donna the Buffalo, Toubab Krewe, tagged Asheville, AVL, Becky upham, Carolina Chocolate drops, Clutch, Donna the Buffalo, Music, north carolina, orange peel, podcast, The Old 97's, The Orange Peel, the peel, Toubab Krewe on December 10, 2010| Leave a Comment »
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Becky Upham, also know as the Mountain Xpress’s “Profiler“, has been working with The Orange Peel in Asheville to bring podcast previews to fans for upcoming shows.
The podcasts are available for free on iTunes and at the club’s website as a stream.
Posted in Acoustic Syndicate, Asheville, Sanders, tagged Acoustic Syndicate, Asheville, banjo, Billy Cardine, Blue Mountain Artists, bluegrass, bryon McMurry, Cleveland County, dobro, Fitz McMurry, folk rock, Green Acres, Green Acres Music Hall, guitars, Hugh Southard, Jay Sanders, Jeremy Saunders, Lincoln Theater, mandolin, McMurry, NC, orange peel, Raleigh, rock, Shelby, SmileFest, Snake Oil Medicine Show, Steve McMurry, Steve Metcalf, Sugar Hill Records, Syndicate, Thanksgiving, vocal harmonies, vocals on November 5, 2010| 1 Comment »
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The Orange Peel ~ Asheville, NC
Acoustic Syndicate was born in December, 1977 when Joe and Fitzhugh McMurry, a couple of brothers from Cleveland County, NC got together and decided to get their kids bluegrass instruments for Christmas that year. The kids were brothers Fitz Jr. and Bryon McMurry, and their cousin Steve McMurry. Fitzie, as he was known back then, got a Gibson Hummingbird guitar. Bryon got an Eagle banjo and Steve got a fiddle from Sears & Roebuck. All were excited and happy. The trio was nicknamed the “The Maple Creek Three” by Fitzhugh Sr. They learned a few songs, mostly church songs from the Methodist hymnal, and threw in a couple of country and bluegrass numbers and before long they were playing whenever they could…mostly serving at the pleasure of the parents at family gatherings and church functions. Joe and Fitzhugh, taking great delight in the results of their scheme, had unwittingly laid the foundation of what was to become Acoustic Syndicate. The boys spent the remainder of their childhood and adolescence singing, playing, living and working together on the family farm in Cleveland County.After high school the trio drifted on separate paths for a while…moving off to college, taking jobs, getting married and so on. But the boys would always make time to get together and go see some good, live music…anything from bluegrass to punk rock. One could find them at a reggae festival on Lake Norman as easily as you could see them at the Milestone in Charlotte to see the Bad Brains, or in DC at a Grateful Dead show. In 1992 the three landed back in Cleveland County, quite by coincidence, and started playing again. In 1993 the trio added Doug Rogers to the group on upright bass. The band played their first gig as The Mint Jubilee Blues at the suggestion of a friend. After some debate on the topic, the band decided on “Acoustic Syndicate” over dinner at the old El Cancun Mexican restaurant in Shelby, NC in October of that year. Bryon actually came up with the name.
Photo by Bright Life Photography
The Band started out pretty much as any other, playing at parties, bars and alike. In 1994 the band caught the attention of Steve Metcalf of the world famous Green Acres Music Hall, in Bostic, NC. He featured them at “The Acres” on a couple of big bills like David Grisman and Bela Fleck. In 1997, the Syndicate added Nashville bassist, Jay Sanders, formerly of the Snake Oil Medicine Show to their line up to complete the Syndicate core. The rest is a matter of record. From there, with the help and connections of Steve Metcalf and the booking of Hugh Southard at Blue Mountain Artists, the band went on to tour the country extensively for the next eight years, completing six recording projects, two of them for Sugar Hill Records.
In 2001 they added long time friend and collaborator, Jeremy Saunders on saxophones. With their distinct brand of folk rock, bluegrass and reggae, coupled with their romper room, ultra high-energy, live performances they went on to be regulars at the biggest music festivals in the country, playing Bonnaroo, Farm Aid, High Sierra Music Festival, Telluride Music Festival, Merle Fest, Magnolia Fest and many more. The band played most of the A list rooms in the country and continued to tour and record until 2005.
Acoustic Syndicate plays on with its message of peace, earth, unity and family. The Syndicate will enter the studio this winter to begin work on their 7th recording. They can be found out and about in the South East touring with their new music and their newest addition to the group, dobro player Billy Cardine.
Biography: Lyle Cordova.
Posted in Asheville, tagged #YardDogsatThePeel, absurdist, Asheville, AVL, cabaret, cartoon, concert, contest, entertainment, fire eaters, Folk, gypsy, hobo, hobohemian, Music, October, orange peel, poetry, punk, road show, Rock and Roll, Sirius B, sonic, sword swallower, the peel, vaudeville, voodoo, WIN TICKETS, yard dogs, yard dogs road show on September 29, 2010| 16 Comments »
This is YOUR chance to WIN FREE TICKETS to the YARD DOGS ROAD SHOW at THE ORANGE PEEL this Friday, October 1st! All you have to do is post a comment to this blog of why YOU should win the tickets below and you are entered to win a pair.
Local Asheville absurdist gypsy folk funk punk band Sirius. B will be opening for the evening! What a GREAT pairing!
Here’s a snippet of what you will get to see from the Yard Dogs at the show:
The Yard Dogs Road Show is a hobo cabaret, a living patchwork of vaudeville and rock and roll. In the enchanting land of stage show entertainment theirs is both pleasant and formidable terrain. They require a sensitivity to the subtle and the absurd. They lead the modern hobohemian on a visual and sonic journey through part of history that may or may not have existed – followed by an ambitious return to the emotional challenges of our punch-drunk contemporary world. It’s a true story on stage: sword swallowers, dancing dolls, fire eaters and sunset hobo poetry – all animated by the live sounds of the Yard Dogs cartoon heavy band. Yard Dogs Road Show is pure visual and sonic voodoo.
Show Details:
Friday, October 1st
9:00 PM (8:00 PM doors)
$16.00 advance / $18.00 door
Ages 16+
The Orange Peel
101 Biltmore Avenue
Asheville, North Carolina 28801
info@theorangepeel.net
For another chance to win, go to twitter and post: “I want to win a free ticket to the Yard Dog‘s Road Show at @ThePeel THIS Friday 10/1 #YardDogsatThePeel
(make sure to use the hashtag #YardDogsatThePeel for your post to be counted)
CONTEST ENDS THURSDAY NIGHT AT MIDNIGHT
Winners names are chosen randomly and pulled from a hat.
Posted in Asheville, tagged Asheville, AVL, community, dialogue, ideas worth spreading, innovative, local, orange peel, remote viewing, TEDx, TEDxAsheville, TEDxAVL, TEDxNextGeneration, TEDxNGA on August 26, 2010| Leave a Comment »
TEDx was created in the spirit of TED’s mission, “ideas worth spreading.” The program is designed to give communities, organizations and individuals the opportunity to stimulate dialogue through TED-like experiences at the local level.
At TEDx events, unique talks given by live speakers combine with TEDTalks videos to spark deep conversation and connections. TEDx events are fully planned and coordinated independently, on a community-by-community basis.
FREE live webstream events: Offsite webstream viewing locations include Posana Café in downtown Asheville and the Doubletree Biltmore Hotel on Hendersonville Road. Seating is limited in both offsite viewing locations., and the conference will stream live on the TEDxAsheville website, via internet radio audiocast on Asheville FM, and other online outlets TBA. Check their website (TEDxAsheville.com) for news as plans develop.
You can stay up to date on TEDxAVL news at their twitter page: twitter.com/TEDxAVL and with the hashtag: #TEDxAVL and through Facebook: www.facebook.com/TEDxAsheville
8 talks, 3 performances, some really cool surprises and the opportunity to be inspired with and by like minded individuals in your community!
August 28th, 2010 from 3-7pm, a dynamic group of teens will present their ideas for the future to an audience ready to be inspired at the first ever TEDxNextGenerationAsheville (TEDxNGA). This interactive, multi-media event at The Orange Peel in downtown Asheville will be an opportunity for growth, learning and fun for our entire community and a springboard to action.
They are the next generation of thinkers, artists, scientists, social activists and entrepreneurs.
Applying their creativity, wisdom and innovative thinking, these young leaders are dreaming of new possibilities and putting their ground-breaking ideas into action.
Stay up to date on TEDxNGA through their twitter feed: twitter.com/tedxnextgenavl and on Facebook: www.facebook.com/TedxNextGenAVL
Teenagers around the world
are inspiring positive change.
Posted in Asheville, Donna the Buffalo, The believers, tagged Asheville, Chuck Allen, Dave McCracken, Donna the Buffalo, Higher Ground, Jay Sanders, orange peel, Tara Nevins, The believers, Vic Stafford on January 30, 2010| Leave a Comment »
The Believers sing “Higher Ground” at the Orange Peel in Asheville, NC on 28 Jan. 2010. Joined by Tara Nevins, Dave McCracken, Jay Sanders and Vic Stafford of Donna the Buffalo.
www.myspace.com/thebelieversmusic
Video by Chuck Allen
Posted in Asheville, Donna the Buffalo, tagged Asheville, Donna the Buffalo, Jesse Ham, Mountain Xpress, orange peel on January 30, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Here’s a performance of Donna the Buffalo’s “Movin’ On” shot at the Orange Peel in Asheville, NC. It was filmed on January 28, 2010 for Mountain Xpress. The video was shot and edited entirely by Jesse Ham. Enjoy!
The Mountain Xpress Reports on DtB
Posted in Acoustic Syndicate, Asheville, tagged Acoustic Syndicate, bryon McMurry, Cleveland County, Fitz McMurry, folkrock, Frank Ruggiero, Jay Sanders, Mountain Music, Music, north carolina, orange peel, SmileFest, Steve McMurry, Terra Firma, WNCW on November 9, 2009| 2 Comments »
Acoustic Syndicate, one of “North Carolina’s best kept secrets” is returning this holiday season for their very special traditional after Thanksgiving show at the Orange Peel on Saturday November 28th.
Photo By Bright Life Photography
Known for its high-energy, positive sound, Acoustic Syndicate delivers a genre-defying performance, masterfully blending its eclectic influences with trademark finesse that only 17 years of cohesive teamwork can bring.
Acoustic Syndicate is the product of Cleveland County’s McMurry clan. Guitarist Steve “Big Daddy” McMurry is joined by his cousins, Bryon McMurry on banjo and Fitz McMurry on drums. The three McMurrys also bring a trademark vocal trio that only a lifetime of singing together can deliver.
Joining the McMurrys in 1998 on bass, Jay Sanders has become part of the family. A long time resident of Asheville, NC, his seamless blending of musical genres and driving style brought a completion to the band’s sound that continues to characterize and define. When not with Acoustic Syndicate, Jay can now be seen playing with Donna The Buffalo or his own group, The E.Normus Trio.
Formed in 1992, Acoustic Syndicate has had a long and storied career. They spent well over a dozen years on the road, playing at the original Bonnaroo, MerleFest, the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, Memphis in May and many many other clubs, festivals and events.
The band had the distinct honor of being invited to perform as a part of FarmAid in 2001, a significant occasion in respect to their family’s agrarian history. The McMurry family are farmers, and continue to cultivate the same land their family has for generations.
In 2005, the band decided to hang up the towel for a little while. They put their touring career on hold with a legendary five hour performance at SmileFest. In a recent interview with Frank Ruggiero from the Mountain Times in Boone, NC, Steve McMurry said “With the music industry in dire straits, the band would have had to commit to another five years of heavy touring to sustain itself. None of us really could see being gone from our families and people for that long a period of time… We had a great run of it, and thought we’d just call it quits and be regular people for a while.”
But the band’s audience felt otherwise. “People wouldn’t let us quit playing,” McMurry said. “They’d keep calling and calling, so after a couple years we decided we’d get together and see if we still knew how to play.” The results speak for themselves, and McMurry said the band is now performing without the pressures touring so often brings, and rather playing for the fun of it.
Final Song from the legendary SmileFest “last show”:
In 2009, Acoustic Syndicate was honored by being voted the 6th top artist of the last 20 years by the listeners of Western North Carolina’s WNCW radio station.
Their discography includes six official releases including two for Sugar Hill Records. Their 2004 effort “Terra Firma” was voted the number one album of the year by the listeners of WNCW, and 2005’s “Long Way Round” placed number seven. But it is not going to end there. Acoustic Syndicate plans on cutting a new record. The band will visit the studio this winter to craft an album of all-new material.
When Ruggiero asked about the music of Acoustic Syndicate, Steve McMurry replied “It’s high energy with a definite rock ’n’ roll vibe, but acoustic.”
“I don’t like getting pigeonholed, because we do so many things – bluegrass, soul, funk – whatever feels good,” McMurry said. “And the music we write is not typical of what you hear on the radio, either. We try to stay away from that mainstream cookie-cutter variety, and, honestly, I think people appreciate us doing that. I think there needs to be an alternative.”
Acoustic Syndicate’s all about making sure it’s an honest alternative, a sound that’s 100 percent its own, but steeped in a rich musical history each band member appreciates. McMurry said the band’s influences span the musical gamut, including the Grateful Dead, Little Feat, The Police, The Who, Peter Gabriel, Steely Dan, John Hartford and Bill Frisell.
“I know all this stuff seems weird to be lumping in on top of a bluegrass ensemble, but it works – this is the stuff we grew up listening to,” he said. “Some of the class rock ’n’ roll is there, but also the more traditional music. We grew up singing in a church, and mountain music, ballads that our parents and grandparents taught us … that comes out in there, especially with the harmonies we put together. It’s a veritable melting pot of different influences.”
McMurry’s quick to assert, though, that the music’s never been about the band, but rather for the audience.
“The material we’ve written has consistently had a positive message to it, and very little of it is centered toward the individual,” he said. “We try to send a good message in a very joyful manner, a very pleasant, uplifting manner. People recognize that, and I think that’s why they like it. It’s not about any one of us in the group; it’s about the relationship in the group and the people who listen to our music, and we’re just going to try to keep that conversation going.”
“The dynamics come from 12 years of traveling on the road together,” McMurry said. “We’ve been playing together long enough now to pretty much know what everyone else is doing. It’s more of a reflex action now than anything else. We love to get together and play together, so we’ve been very fortunate in that regard.”
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SHOW DETAILS:
Saturday November 28th
The Orange Peel
Ages 18+,
Doors 8pm, show 9pm
$15 adv/ $17 d.o.s
828-225-5851
101 Biltmore Ave
Asheville, NC 28801
http://www.theorangepeel.net
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“Too bad most contemporary pop music doesn’t have the organic elegance of Acoustic Syndicate.” -Vintage Guitar
“North Carolina’s best kept secret” -Star Maker Machine
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