If yall are local upper Hudson Valley this could be a fun night. Club Helsinki Hudson tonight at 9PM. Seen them before and look forward to seeing them again At the forefront of the traditional-music revival, the Wiyos play and compose old-timey music inspired by the early American musical idioms of the 1920s and 30s. Gleefully subverting genre distinctions, their music comes from a time before commercial formatting separated blues from country, ragtime from gospel, and swing from hillbilly. Their sound is reminiscent of days-gone-by, when live bands could be heard both on the radio and at community dances, juke joints, and house parties. Its this approach that presumably garnered the attention of none other than Bob Dylan, who hand-picked the group to open his monthlong summer tour in 2009. The trio - Michael Farkas, Teddy Weber and Sauerkraut Seth Travins - has also prominently been featured on BBC TV programs Folk America – Hollerers, Stompers and Old-Time Ramblers and No Sleep Til Yell, as avatars of the jug-band revival.
Posted on: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 23:22:52 +0000
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