Grateful thanks to: Dale Rempert
for photos, occasional sound, and for being a dedicated groupie!
Influences
We play world music from all over. We specialize mostly in roots music from the Balkans, Scandinavia, and continental Europe, with the occasional foray into the Orient and North America.
Several years ago NPR broadcast a segment polling people about which musical instruments they thought were the most annoying. Among the instruments highest on the list were bagpipes, accordion and banjo, and others included were drum, fiddle and whistle. As she listened, Yoshimi Masuo thought to herself, "I know people who play a lot of those instruments ... and I don't think they are so annoying." And so AIO, The Annoying Instrument Orchestra, was formed to make pleasant and engaging music on annoying instruments.
