Kronos String Quartet, Ethel, Tommy Emmanuel, Pat Kirtley, John Knowles, Jacqueline Du Pre, Paul Neubauer, William Primrose, Shinichi Suzuki, Jane Austen, Turtle Island String Quartet, Randy Newman, The Beatles, Vladimir Nabokov, Sean O'Boyle, Mstislav Rostropovich, Lead Belly, Big Bill Broonzy, Mississippi John Hurt, Alfred Hitchcock, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, The Band, Jean Ritchie, Neil Sedaka, Paragon Musical Theatre Orchestra, Sebastian Riemann
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The videos below are from our August 2008 Germany/Poland tour with guitarist, Tommy Emmanuel. Many thanks to Tommy and sound engineer Neil Segrott for a musically and life-inspiring experience!
Our very first quartet performance with Tommy! There is some dispute over the actual date, but not the location - TommyFest, Elizabethtown KY.
The Endless Road Strings are Julie Lastinger, violin, Tina Simpson, violin, Joanna Binford, viola, and Rebecca Kiekenapp, cello. They are classically trained musicians living in Lexington, KY, who have spent most of their lives playing all types of music, ranging from classical to pop, rock, bluegrass, and whatever else crosses their path. They are members of the Lexington Philharmonic Orchestra, Look Out Below (a bluegrass band), Paragon Musical Theatre Orchestra and teachers in the Lexington area. During the past few years they've been the "back up band" for Tommy Emmanuel, Pat Kirtley, Matt and Pauly Zarb and other touring performers. Recently, the Endless Road Strings toured Germany and Poland with guitarist Tommy Emmanuel. ERS have been a standout feature at the prestigious Chet Atkins Appreciation Society in Nashville since 2006, adding a "classical" flair and sparkle for some of the world's well known country, pop, and jazz guitarists performing at that event.
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Hello friends, thanks for taking the time to listen, we really are enjoying your sound too... hope we do something together in our next visit to Kentucky, I found your site looking for PAt Kirtley, you guys know him? Say hi from us! Keep doing your beautiful sound.
Hi Ladies (my beautiful friends from Kentuck)-thanks for your great playing and for making it better by being there and adding some class to the joint. I really enjoyed myself this year largely because of the high musicianship of everyone in the Hollywood tribute. I worked fairly hard and paid attention which always creates energy and alertness, and then when we were hanging out (thanks Rebecca especially and everyone for their great joke telling) there was a nice comraderie which I loved. You all enhance Tommy's compositions and make him sound more powerful (like he needs that) and I am inspired and honored to know you. Love, John Nichols
It was so great to see you perform at CAAS! I am inspired and very impressed with your lovely music! And . . . Thanks for letting me take a picture with you all. Your fan, Lindsey Short
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This music is from a young Beethoven, filled with despair, apparently from the realization that his deafness will never improve and will only get worse. There are times when he appears to cry, "God, why hast thou forsaken me"!
And yet his sullen angry remorse alternates with what seems to be hopefulness for a peaceful spiritual oneness with the universe.
Thank you for the nice comments, I really like your music too, it's beautiful! I see that you toured with Tommy E, that must have been something else! That is up-there on the short-list of my dreams, well done!
