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Lady Lyndsay

About Me

I thrive in movement, motivated by mobility. My violin and I, when on our best terms, resemble a relationship of cat and person. The softness of my fiddle is akin to the silky, airy stroke of a fickle feline who might lavish in serene pleasure one second and then rrrraaahhaarr, spasm into unforseen fury in no time at all......................................................... ...................................................Nashville , TN must have some enormous magnet attached to it. .......haha maybe its the lovely relaxed nature of the people I know there. The business is harsh. But we do have a bit of control over the environment we choose for ourselves. So, I make some freelancing money, learn about recording strings, peek through the window of the country and christian music industry, just to see....and move on. Go home. my friends make music too. And that happens to include a broad range of sound........................................ With my familial roots in bluegrass, my upbringing in classical music, i got off to an interesting start. At Belmont, I studied with Elisabeth Small (classical) and Tracy Silverman (jazz, other;), both of whom I consider to hold particularly organic approaches to playing the violin and thinking about music. In college, I had one experience that clued me into a deep interest for which I am still searching other collaborators. THE PUPPET'S REVOLT was an improvisational string quartet, following much in the style of the Turtle Island string quartet. It is now dispersed, but i hold them all in my heart still, Rebecca, Ashley and Ben. We had the best rehearsals........ I have also fell into a good deal of exposure to several traditional South American styles. SERENATTA is a group, led by Pablo Garzon in Nashville, which plays music from every country in S. America. They have graciously treated me like family since 2003. While playing a gig the Huntsville Symphony, I met RENATO AMARAL, A Brazilian guitar player/physicist from outside of Sao Paulo, who shares my love for the Brazilian choro. We played every other week at The Jazz Factory in Huntsville, AL for a year or so. He is now getting his PhD in Germany, and i miss him. A piece of Nashville that has infused my capabilities is in the art of recording and stacking strings on many different styles of music. I love the studio world. I also learned a lot playing for a year with the trip hop band, THE JANISSARY. I suspect SHARON LANG, the singer and my homegirl, will be making much more music together upon my return to Nashville. (I am currently hibernating in Jacksonville, FL in my parent's home)...............................................I just finished 4 months straight on the road across the country with the lovely Joshua Irwin. We, as THE GOLDEN TICKET, completed an odyssey, a massive scavenger hunt, around the US, playing acoustic music for people from Nashville to Oregon, Washington, down California, into Texas and finally back to Jax, FL................................................... It's been amazing year, this 2008. I saw three oceans, multiple times, turned 25 yrs old in a gorgeous commune (Breitenbush Hot Springs) in Oregon, played in 3 major Florida venues with 3 different acts, (along with one Florida tour of PACs), sold most of my belongings to go on the road, and went to India for 20 days. India, you say? What took you there? FUTUREMAN AND THE BLACK MOZART ENSEMBLE :) We've went to India Jan 1st 2008, played The Fillmore in Denver on New Years' 07, Bonaroo '05, MagnoliaFest in '06 and 07, and several other festivals, universities, museums and performing arts centers all over the eastern US. We never know what is going to happen next with Roy Wooten, aka "Futureman," onstage or off. So what 2009 holds in store for us, there's really no telling. Our first gig is to play at a Jewish university in Boston for Black History month. So I'll make the drive back to Nashville on Martin Luther King's day, while the entire country gets ready for a new era in history to begin on Jan 20th 2009. good luck barack obama.

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Music:

Member Since: 24/01/2007
Band Members: -----countless-------
Influences: Yerba Mate, David Grisman and Darol Anger (as I heard them in the womb), Stevie Wonder, Tom Robbins (novelist), Tin Hat Trio, funky J-Sun for sure, Leslie, my dad-Steve Pruett, Bela Fleck, Vassar Clements, Mike Marchall, Appalachia Waltz, Jean Luc Ponty, Kurt Vonnegut, Tracy Silverman, Bongo Java coffee, the infamous baby Mollie (my lovely and mischievous niece), Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, mountain air, Bach for his gyspy scales, futureman for his rhythmic mayhem that transforms into reality squared, my grandpa and his bluegrass stories, Sloppy Joe and the Slopryland crew, Carla Kilstedt, Beth and Randy of Magfest, Shostakovich string quartets, Turtle Island string quartet, Captain Stringbean crew (and that wonderful St. Augustine haze) , sweet sweet Stephane and Django, NPR, all the musical boys and girls in my life, things that hold stark contrast and slowly blur, the overwhelming synchronicity of things....hmm my mom
Sounds Like: Where's Waldo? is a violin
Record Label: Unsigned

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