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String Bean Love

About Me

Don’t let the name fool you, String Bean Love isn’t the name of a vegetarian collective in Vermont. Let the trio of Berklee students provide a sonic double take for anyone who thinks this band is anything like the Polyphonic Spree. Sara Houser (keys/vocals), Dhyana Berry (bass), and Nick D’Agostino (drums) make up the band producing a sound loaded with tight grooves, piano-driven hooks, and lyrics that more often than not make you say “did she really just sing that?” It all started in the Fall of 2006 when Dhyana Berry and Sara Houser met in a Berklee classroom. Dhy a bass principle, and Sara a piano principle/songwriter quickly bonded and decidedly started working together on music. As the year went on, the duo became a trio when Sara met Nick D’Agostino. Nick’s pocket and Dhy’s R&B grooves make a solid foundation for Sara’s songwriting and percussive piano playing to create the sweet sweet sound that is String Bean Love. So don’t come out to a show thinking you’ll see some girl and her guitar singing about counterculture. Put on your funk face and experience String Bean Love.I edited my profile with a stick

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Member Since: 06/03/2007
Band Website: www.myspace.com/stringbeanlovemusic
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Influences: SARA - a smorgusbord of piano player/songwriters: stevie, ray charles, fiona apple, elton john, beethoven, brahms, ben folds, brad mehldau, tori amos, etc and then a vast array of songwriters, bands, and performers: incubus, jeff freaking buckley, the beatles (duh), the chambers brothers, the chemical brothers, sarah vaughan, billie holiday, erykah badu, jill scott, donny hathaway...this could go on forever.
DHY - Me'Shell Ndegéocello, James Jamerson, Flea, Jaco Pastorius, Pino Palladino, Justin Medal-Johnson, Bill Withers, Jimi Hendrix, Billy Cox, The Carpenters (everyone should have a soft spot for them) Living Colour, The Sounds, No Doubt, Earth, Wind, & Fire, Victor Wooten, The Brothers Johnson, Sade, D'Angelo, Blondie, The Mooney Suzuki and the list goes on...
NICK - God or Life-whatever you wanna call it- more specifically- Jeff Buckley, Joe Firstman, Dave Binney, My Mother, Brian Blade, Rosenwinkel (i go to berklee kids), Prince, D'Angelo, Teddy Geiger, Israel New Breed, ?uestlove, Keith Jarrett, Dean Martin, Louis Prima, Jesse Ruben, Jeff Miles, STEVIE, DONNY, MARVIN, Vanessa Carlton, Jeff Ballard, Milford Graves, Mehldau, Alex Gray, Jesus, Moses, all dem cats, the book free play, my sisters, did i say Prince?
Sounds Like: see influences
Record Label: one can hope right?

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