Lambergrass - Italian Bluegrass Band

Julius Travella (www.juliustravella.com)

Julius Travella
Artist excellent and has great sympathy on the scene for about 20 years. He has played in various formations such as Sugar & Spice, Lonesome Runaway and other artists.

In the nineties driven by a passion for the music scene overseas, is dedicated to country music.

In 1998 meets the country singer Della Maggiore Gisella with her, Flavio brother, drummer Renato Zanardo and guitarist Claudio Bazzari founded the "Young Country", a band level still outstanding, which performs in international festivals and in 2003 awarding the first album "First Step", an album of cover "new country" where the voice solo singer "Barbara Bono" in the meantime avvicendatasi in permanently in the band.

Later, after a brief experience with the band Lonesome Runaways, meets the country singer Elly Kelyl with which begins to perform as a duo.

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Special Consensus (www.specialc.com)

Special Consensus is a four person acoustic bluegrass band that began performing in the Midwest in the spring of 1975. The first band album was released in 1979 when the band began touring on a national basis. In 1984, The Special Consensus initiated the Traditional American Music (TAM) Program in schools across the country and began appearing on cable television and National Public Radio shows.

The band has since appeared on The Nashville Network “Fire On The Mountain” show, toured for three seasons as 4/5 of the cast in the musical Cotton Patch Gospel (music and lyrics by Harry Chapin), and released twelve additional recordings.

Songs from the 1998 Our Little Town, the 2002 Route 10 and the 2004 Everything’s Alright releases appeared on the National Bluegrass Survey chart in Bluegrass Unlimited and on the Gospel Truths chart in Bluegrass Now.

A video production of the TAM Program, sponsored by the Northern Indiana Bluegrass Association, has been archived at the Nashville office of the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) and sent by the IBMA to hundreds of schools throughout the United States.

In 2000, Pinecastle Records released the first band performance video, filmed for Iowa Public Television’s “Old Time Country Music” show, and The Special Consensus 25th Anniversary recording to mark this milestone year for the band.

The 25th Anniversary and Route 10 recordings each received a Highlight Review in Bluegrass Unlimited, and Route 10 was included in the Top 10 Recordings of 2003 in both Bluegrass Now and the Chicago Tribune.

In November 2003, The Special Consensus received a standing ovation after the first band performance on the Grand Ole Opry at Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium.

The 2005 Everything’s Alright release was included in the Top 10 Recordings of 2005 in Bluegrass Now and Greg was featured in the September 2006 cover story of that periodical. The band was featured in the August 2005 cover story of Bluegrass Unlimited.
International tours have brought The Special Consensus to the United Kingdom, Canada, Europe, Ireland and South America.

In 1993, the band performed the first of many concerts with a symphony orchestra, complete with orchestral arrangements of songs from the band repertoire.

The Special Consensus is included on the touring rosters of the Illinois Arts Council (Artstour) and the Heartland Arts Fund and continues to participate in the Arts Midwest Performing Arts Touring Program.

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Young Country (www.youngcountry.it)

Young Country was born in a saloon in Milan in 1998, from the meeting between Country singer Gisella Della Maggiore with the Travella brothers, country loving musicians. The trio's sparkling synergy became a group reality with the joining in of Renato Zanardo at the drums and Claudio Bazzari at the electric guitar. The band played in saloons around the Milan area with a repertoire of New Country cover performed with an astonishing vitality.

Young Country started 2003 in full gear and with a lot of news. First of all a new voice, Barbara Bono, who has met the fans approval since her debut with the band. Barbara fits in very well in the band's country style having a typical cowgirl look: long hair, cowboy hat and boots.

And so we come to today ad her being part of Young Country: there's nothing else that can be said about her, to appreciate her you have to see her in action on the stage ! Like all Young Country fans know well, the band gives its best when playing live in concert, where each member's country soul shows itself at its best.

For more info: Young Country

White Rabbit String Band (White Rabbit String Band)

The Band's name is inspired a Jefferson Airplane's song. The group was formed in 2006 with elements from different experience, ranging from sacred music, orchestral music, Irish folk, rock. They were joined in the common passion for the country and especially for bluegrass. This not very musical genre known, but it is getting very success in the environments where it is proposed.

Per ulteriori informazioni: White Rabbit String Band

REW The Arts' Orchestra' (REW)

"REW - The Arts' Orchestra" Project.

Music has been in fact chosen like contact and comparison, point of reference with other artistic shapes and expressions that find in the just ambient it natural one. Therefore not only Music but also choreographic figurations, we danced, poetry, reading of witnesses, projections and images.

Been born in the september 2003 REW - The Arts' Orchestra is also REWENTI, that is artistic organization of musical events, with particular attention to the musical comparisons, with other musical truths in order to express in music and with different ways only emotions being told identical history but with “different notes and tonalities”.

The REW Project has also not artistic purposes. The proceeds of the exhibitions are devolven to humanitarian initiatives.

Per ulteriori informazioni: REW

Tom Nechville (www.nechville.com)

The Workshop's Report is available on Banjovia Newsletter

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Bluegrass Stuff

BLUEGRASS STUFF is one of the oldest bluegrass bands in Europe, having been active since 1977. The band's style is traditional, with a sound and approach that embraces the classic bluegrass of Bill Monroe, Flatt & Scruggs, Jimmy Martin and the Stanley Brothers.

BLUEGRASS STUFF has performed all over Italy and Europe, gaining a strong following everywhere. The band has appeared at some of the major international festivals in Italy (Torino, Milano, Tradate, Brescia, Pescara), France (Toulouse), Germany (Güglingen, Neusudende, Bühl), Switzerland (Basel, Münchwilen, Melide, Stetten, Deredinger, Olten, Schaffausen, Willisau, Thün, Albisgütli), Nederland (EWOB 2002) sharing the stage with such major acts as Bluegrass Cardinals, The Nashville Bluegrass Band, Country Gazette and Tim O' Brien.

BLUEGRASS STUFF has also played with bluegrass greats Peter Rowan, Kenny Baker, Josh Graves, Jim Eanes, Bill Keith, Jim Rooney, Randy Howard and has appeared many times on both local and national radio and TV programs.

BLUEGRASS STUFF released several recordings and in 1995 produced "Golden Horn" the first italian bluegrass CD. The band was placed 1st at the audience award "Group of the Year" during the European Bluegrass Festival in Voorthuizen NL, the highlight of the European World of Bluegrass 2002.

For more info: Bluegrass Stuff

Mismountain Boys

The Mismountain Boys are a band dedicated to promote the Country and Bluegrass music, getting it from the North American popular traditions, starting from the ballad of the Appalachi mountains up to today's country rock . The musical instruments are exclusively acoustic and in particular the 5 strings banjo, the f-style mandolin, the guitar, the upright bass and the Dobro. The members of the groups are:

Fabio "Cowboy Smile" Bestetti : upright bass & backvocals
Roberto "Hook" Braiato : mandolin, guitar & lead vocal
Remo "Mr. Cadillac" Ceriotti : 5th string banjo & dobro
Franco "The Captain" Fanizzi : guitar & lead vocal

The wide repertoire contains country, bluegrass, folk, gospel and spiritual classics. The Mismountain Boys shows are original and suitable for country fests, bar clubs, pubs.

For mor info: Mismountain Boys

Tabea & Blue Sky

Tabea & Blue Sky is a bluegrass, country and irish group from Switzerland.

The members of the groups are:
- Tabea Anderfuhren lead vocal, guitar and dulcimer
- Hansi Looser banjo and vocal
- Daniel Frey Fiddle and vocal,
- Robert Brunner Dobro and vocal
- Felix Kamber bass.

Daniel has played with our group to the Thun's festival. He is a very good fiddle player.

For more info: Tabea & Blue Sky