Raph Worrick plays guitars and sings, and makes the stuff up. Most of the time Ron Rost is abusing the organ and related instruments, but sometimes Wayne Reiss beats the piano, hard. Matt Rogalsky plays bass and all kinds of other stuff. Karen Ferguson Laundon wails on fiddle and accordion, and sings real nice too. Jeff Labossiere keeps everything together from behind the drumset; unless of course Pete Bowers or Russ Lawton is sitting back there.
Plus the odd surprise visitor now and then....
The Dirtminers play a bunch of barely functional old junk exclusively.
Some places we've played:
VT:
Higher Ground, Red Square, Radio Bean, Great Falls Club, Town Hall Theater, Briggs Carriage, The Art House, Monkey House, Vergennes Opera House, Metronome, Long Trail Festival, Lake Champlain Maritime Festival, OC Octoberfest, Hyjinx Festival, Skinny Pancake, On The Rise, Langdon Street Cafe, Flying Disc
ONT:
The Grad Club, The Tranzac, Wolfe Island Grill, Paddy's Pub
TRex playing Gram Parsons. Tom Petty playing Elvis Costello. Brian Eno playing Frank Zappa. Gillian Welch playing Led Zeppelin. Slim Cessna playing Cat Stevens. Devo playing Warren Zevon. Morphine playing Graham Parker. Or was it the other way around?
The Dirtminers have it all! These five super-talented 18-25 year olds burst on the music scene in 2005 with the dynamic ep "Meat and Electricity". Combining sexy movie-star looks with fabulous pop hooks, this group next topped the charts with their blockbusting 2007 full-length cd "American Typewriter." With a stage show that uses tasteful partial nudity to make important social points, the band took to the road opening for and stealing the show from mega-artists like Beyonce and The Margaret Thatcher Band. Look for them on an upcoming PBS fundraising special!
Miss Edwards' Grade One has this to say about the Dirtminers: "Fantastic, cool, very good, really loud awesome, really hot, very talented, nice, talented, very dirty, great, I don't know, rock and roll, umm, hoolish like a hoola-hoop, off the hook, egyptian, stiff."
You can find our music at these places:
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For bookings or other information contact dirtminers@gmail.com. We do not participate in the Sonicbids pay-to-be-considered-to-play booking monopoly.
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Hello from Finland! It's a name-dropping FRENZY!!! I just released my new cd featuring Alejandro Escovedo, Mark Lanegan, Steve Berlin (los lobos), Chris and Carla from the Walkabouts, Peter Case, Scott McCaughey (YFF, REM)and Jim Roth (built to spill). CD has liner notes by Biographer Charles R. Cross (BackStreets-Springsteen...Heavier than Heaven-Cobain...Roomful of Mirrors-Hendrix...etc. Also I have finally put "Passing Thru" on my site as well for you to hear...this is the one with Eddie Vedder, Victoria Williams, and Carla Torgerson trading verses with me...it has not been availablé for a long time, and I also have it on i-tunes, etunes, amazon and rhapsody. Okay...I hope you are doing well!
Hello Vermont!...Just letting you know I'll be playing 3 dates in your lovely state with my band this weekend. Hope you can make it.
love, Miss Tess
*Thursday, Jan. 22 @ The Hooker-Dunham Theater, Brattleboro *Friday, Jan. 23 @ Langdon St. Cafe, Montpelier *Saturday, Jan. 24 @ The Red Fox Inn, Bondsville
Hello!
Wahoooo! We are excited to tell you that we are having our CD release party THIS FRIDAY the 26th at the Flynn space starting at 8pm. This is a charitable event as well as our joyous return to Vermont this Fall! All the best and we hope to see you there~
Cheers,
Avi & Celia
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