Featuring: Run Boy Run, Wahoo Skiffle Crazies & Matt
Bauer
Run Boy Run
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Existing comfortably in the tension between tradition and
the musical frontier, Run Boy Run‘s all-acoustic format blends bluegrass, folk
and the old timey American vernacular with touches of classical and jazz. Their
music is rooted in the traditional music of the Appalachian South, but is also
definitively present in the 21st century.
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From winning the band contest at Pickin‘ In The Pines (mere
weeks after forming in 2009) and a special appearance at the Telluride
Bluegrass Festival in 2012, to two appearances on National Public Radio‘s A Prairie
Home Companion, Run Boy Run have been making friends and fans alike with their
open-ended musical approach and wonderful stage presence. A Prairie Home
Companion host Garrison Keillor was impressed enough that he penned the liner
notes to the band‘s debut CD.
Run Boy Run come from Tucson, Arizona, and were tagged by
Paste magazine as “One of the top 10 Arizona bands to hear now.” The band is
brother and sister Matt Rolland (fiddle, guitar) and Grace Rolland (cello,
vocals), sisters Bekah Sandoval Rolland (fiddle, vocals) and Jen Sandoval
(mandolin, vocals) and bass player Jesse Allen. With three strong female
voices, singing separately or in harmony, and deeply rooted familial connection
to traditional American music, Run Boy Run didn‘t come lately to their sound;
it‘s in their collective blood.
Their debut CD, So Sang the Whippoorwill, was released in
March 2013 to regional and national critical acclaim.
Wahoo Skiffle Crazies
Balancing relevancy with absurdity, Wahoo Skiffle Crazies
offer post-modern, time-traveling, Gonzo-Folk traditional jug band tunes,
ragtime, protest songs, blues and originals, influenced by the 60s folk revival
and Depression Era Americana (both).
Matt Bauer
"If you've never heard Matt Bauer's staggeringly
beautiful The Island Moved in the Storm (2008), I suggest you stop reading now
and remedy that situation posthaste. I say that simply because thoroughly
digesting that record is about the only thing that can prepare you for Bauer's
upcoming release, The Jessamine County Book Of The Living." - My Old
Kentucky Blog
