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The Emerald Underground

CELTIC FUSION

About Me

The Emerald Underground fuses traditional Celtic jigs, reels, and hornpipes with modern rock beats and a sprinkling of jazz, latin, classical, ambient, and folk influences. .

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/26/2006
Band Members: Lanny Montgomery - Keyboard, bass guitar, bones, vocals.

Laura Conant - flutes, Irish whistles, keyboard, vocals.

Influences: Celtic influences - Wolfstone, Natalie MacMaster, The Young Dubliners, Eileen Ivers, Gaelic Storm, Solas, David Arkenstone, Cherish the Ladies, Fairport Convention, Loreena McKennett, The Corrs, Flook, The Chieftains, and many others....

Other influences - Steely Dan, Boz Scaggs, Michael McDonald, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Genesis, Todd Rundgren, Chicago, The Tubes, Toto, Little River Band, Combo Audio, Gino Vannelli, Chick Corea, Larry Carlton, Brian Auger, Traffic, The Rippingtons, Tom Scott, Jaco, Herbie Hancock, Al Jarreau, Manhattan Transfer, The Yellowjackets, Acoustic Alchemy, George Duke, Jethro Tull, King Crimson, Adrian Belew, The Beatles, The Moody Blues, Yes, Vangelis, Shadowfax, Mars Lasar, James Horner, Howard Shore, James Newton Howard, Bernard Herrmann, Klaus Badelt, Hans Zimmer, John Williams, Ennio Morricone, Tangerine Dream, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Holst, Mozart, Bach, Gershwin, Tchaikovsky, Alison Krauss, Dan Fogelberg, Tim Weisberg, David Lanz, Paul Speer, Thomas Dolby, Zappa, Re-Flex, The Talking Heads......................
Sounds Like: Stone Ring Circle
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Theresa Goes Underground!

The new year marked the end of an era for The Emerald Underground as our beloved and long-time flute/whistle player, Laura Conant, left the band.   Laura and her family have moved to Omaha, ...
Posted by The Emerald Underground on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 07:29:00 PST