Jeff Holt - guitar, slide guitar, banjo, and vocals;
Leanna Fugate - guitar, clawhammer banjo, mandolin, and vocals
Brian Fletcher - spoons, washboard, uke, and miscellany
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Southeast Performer – Feb. 2007 REVIEWSLIVE
“The Georgia Fireflies are a time machine – maybe more of a time and space machine – because when you hear their music you are transported to the North Georgia mountains circa 1920, where you can relax on the front porch in a rocking chair and sip on sweet tea and enjoy the acoustic sounds of the guitar, washboard and banjo.…Brian Fletcher (played) locomotive-imitating washboard, galloping spoons, spur-sounding tambourine and foot stomps, which all together sounded like the soundtrack to a train robbery…Fugate’s vocals…were balanced by Holt’s voice, which was Americana-robust like a strong coffee from the old kettle. Their performance made you wish you had brought a jug along so you could join in.”
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You can pick up our debut recording and hear for yourself! "On Down the Line" is now available at the following locations:
DECATUR CD
356 W. Ponce de Leon Ave.
Decatur, GA 30030
WUXTRY RECORDS
2096 N. Decatur Rd.
Decatur, GA 30030
CRIMINAL RECORDS
466 Moreland Ave. NE
Atlanta, GA 30307
WAX N' FACTS
431 Moreland Ave. NE
Atlanta, GA 30307
JENNINGS MUSIC
2511 Canton Rd. NE
Marietta, GA 30066
AND www.joerockhead.com and www.cdbaby.com
The Georgia Fireflies are an old-timey Appalachian country-folk ensemble hailing from Atlanta, Georgia. Fronted by Jeff Holt and Leanna Fugate, the two trade off duties on banjo, mandolin, guitar, and lead and harmony vocals while Brian Fletcher (Magnapop, Luigi) often joins them on spoons, washboard, and other old-timey percussion.
The Georgia Fireflies’ music displays their diverse taste in both new and long gone artists such as the Carter Family, Patsy Montana, Hazel Dickens, Camper Van Beethoven, and Wilco among many others.
On their debut release, On Down the Line, the Georgia Fireflies “keep things fun by blending the music’s established rural aspects with modern touches” Stomp and Stammer Sept. 2006. The recording includes both originals and traditionals using numerous sounds not typically associated with the old-timey genre including electric guitar, tape-loops, and various unconventional noises.
Jeff Holt is an Atlanta scene veteran having played in numerous bands including Ultrababyfat, Space Crime Quintet, The Christine Keeler Affair, The Bus Drivers, The Mighty Afros and #1 Family Mover. Leanna Fugate has played in various bands in Atlanta, Chicago and Asheville including Blue Ginseng and the Whiskey Hollow Band. Both currently play with indie-popadelic band Silent Kids.
The Georgia Fireflies recently composed and performed the theme song for Georgia Public Broadcasting’s “Georgia Outdoors” which airs statewide four times a week on PBS.
At Eyedrum (www. eyedrum. org) on Wednesday November 20th at 7:30 pm, for $5.00, The Nonsense Company presents "Great Hymn of Thanksgiving / Conversation Storm", an award-winning pair of urgently intricate pieces blurring the boundary between experimental theater and avant-garde music, both written by internationally-known composer and company member Rick Burkhardt.
"Great Hymn of Thanksgiving" takes place at a dinner table, where the sounds of conversation have been replaced with fragmented news reports, scraps from the Army prayer manual, faux-Middle-Eastern folk tales, and disembodied cries of emergency. The sculpted sounds of the table itself — scooting chairs, singing wineglasses, squeaking forks — force this “conversation” into a confrontation with material reality.
In "Conversation Storm", three friends from three sides of the political spectrum unwillingly argue their way through a ticking time bomb scenario, revising, dissecting, and even brutalizing their own positions in the process — but time has either stopped or entered an ugly loop, and as the friends assign and reassign roles, the scenario begins to dissolve the boundaries between real and hypothetical, past and future, day and night.
Best New Play — San Francisco Fringe Festival, 2007
Audience Choice and Best-of-the-Fest awards — Frigid Festival NYC, 2008
“Artists to be reckoned with…. hilariously funny and awesomely tragic at the same time.”
Martin Denton, nytheatre. com
“Moving, funny, and provocative… theater at its best.”
Joey Seiler, Austin 360
For more information: http://nonsensecompany. com
Note: This performance contains extremely graphic adult language and is not appro
Hey, thanks for the add! I have only heard a few of your tunes so far, but already I'm crazy about the mix of old-timey and experimental. I've wanted to do a similar sort of thing on my first album, in fact; maybe y'all can give me some pointers (or point me towards some musicians). So far your version of "Rain and Snow" is my favorite ... it's so sparse and chilly, it sounds spectral ... it's a cry away from the Be Good Tanyas' take, which is the version I know best. Keeping making the awesome music! I'm on the lookout for your CD.
Hello! It looks like we'll have the pleasure of meeting you on August 6th when we all share the bill with The New Familiars. We're looking forward to it!
we're looking forward to the show in August...i enjoyed your tunes on your page and appreciate that you found us online...hope you are all well and we'll see you soon
