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RE-INVENTING AMERICANA - ElixirÂ® brings it's audience a performance music that's traditional yet original, educational and just plain toe-tapping fun!This talented trio performs music from the 1800s with traditional lyrics but with some new and fresh arrangements along with their own original songs.Dressed in era costumes, they discuss the songs, history and sort of come across as The Smothers Brothers meet Peter, Paul & Mary doing classic rock and folk and jazz and raeggee versions of classic Americana.Currently on their Chautauqua Tour in 2007 and recording a fully digital new CD to go along with their 7 other CD's.Mike is also in the midst of writing 2 plays with music and writing a new booklet on the histories of the songs for the third installments of "Songs & Stories, Volume III".

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Member Since: 2/23/2006
Band Website: symmetrypoint.com, elixirsings.com
Band Members: Mike Petee- Vocals, guitar, dobro, ukulele, harmonica, bass (acoustic & electric), autoharp, guitjo, banjo, dulcimer, songwriter.Chris Petee - Vocals, guitar, guitjo, accordion, kazoo, duck call, elephant arms and various assorted percussion.Gerry Rensel - Vocals, mandolin, guitar, fiddle, guitjo, banjo, hammer dulcimer and the kazoo genius.
Influences: ElixirÂ®'s unique styles cover classic rock, folk, jazz, the polka, reggae, bluegrass, country, delta blues, the Beatles, the Doors, Cream, the Andrew's Sisters, Beach Boys, Chuck Berry, James Brown, the Munchkins and traditional arrangements!
Sounds Like: ElixirÂ® - and yes we own the national and international rights to the name via the U.S. Department of Commerce. We're trademarked.We merge different styles to create a sound that is uniquely ours. It's like when The Police took the best of punk, raggae and african multi-rhythms and forged a sound that was uniquely theirs."...the aborigine people of Australia believe that their ancestors sang the world into being, and that there are special song paths that those first people took while they were doing it; singing up the world from from out of nothingness..." - Sharyn McCrumb "The Songcatcher"
Record Label: Symmetry Point Music Group
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

New Quote

"In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain." - George Szell, Hungarian-American conductor (1897-1970)
Posted by Elixir® on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 03:13:00 PST

Kurt Vonnegut

" All I need to prove there is a God is...music" - Kurt Vonnegut (died yesterday April 11, 2007)
Posted by Elixir® on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 04:17:00 PST

Registered Trade Name

Been meaning to put the ® on our name as I spent 3 years going through the process and a lot of money to gain ownership of the name ELIXIR with the United States Commerce Department. We own it - we ho...
Posted by Elixir® on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 07:10:00 PST

Power of Music - quote from Sir George Martin

For all our friends - I mentioned last time that I used to put a quote on our old www.symmetrypoint.com site that had to do with music and I will return to that tradition here:"Of all the arts, music ...
Posted by Elixir® on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 03:46:00 PST

Quotes about the power of music

Starting with this blob I hope to start putting in interesting quotes that deal with music that I've come across from time to time - that I hope make you think how powerful music is - Mike Petee...
Posted by Elixir® on Sat, 13 Jan 2007 12:27:00 PST

Howdi and Welcome to Elixir-ville

Shucks - just gettin' used to these new fangled d-vices. Being an 1800's type group - we were the first to introduce ringtones but no one knew how to download them and they didn't have phones anyway. ...
Posted by Elixir® on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 12:04:00 PST

News from the Elixir Homefront

Howdi from Mike in Elixir. We're finally getting ready to do our summer concert series around Ohio. We have some new tricks up our sleeves like Gerry's fiddle playing (I was amazed how good he is and ...
Posted by Elixir® on Wed, 21 Jun 2006 05:16:00 PST

summer tour

We are gearing up to play summer concerts around Ohio, stay tuned. Been listening to Sonya Kitchell, Yonder Mountain String Band and Drive-By Truckers as well as James Taylor's son, Ben's new CD. Good...
Posted by Elixir® on Fri, 16 Jun 2006 12:16:00 PST

Opened for Mark Twain

A famous Mark Twain impersonator was scheduled to do several performances during this past week at the Dan Emmett Playhouse and Tavern. Unfortunately the owner of the playhouse forgot to tell Mark Tw...
Posted by Elixir® on Fri, 19 May 2006 01:07:00 PST