Current Members include:
Chris Dammann - bass
Jason Eckerson - mandolin, clarinet
Bob Frech - trumpet, drums
Tom McGettrick - ukelele, banjo
Tom Santiago - guitar
2009 Finalist of The Shortie Awards: Student Film and News Festival. Live Action Category, Ages 7-10. An ancient spaghetti monster appears on a ranch and the young ranchers are forced to investigate its intentions. Created by elementary school students from Arlington, VA, with advisor Renee Shaw. For more information about The Shortie Awards, please visit: http://www.shortie.org.
Mar Caribe started when Tom McGettrick (banjo, ukelele) and Tom Santiago (guitar) began trading simple riffs and unfinished songs with one another while sitting on a rooftop underneath an airline flight path. Soon Cole Blodgett (bass) and Jason Eckerson (mandolin, clarinet) joined in with their creative inventions as professionally schooled musicians accelerating the style toward whatever destination it is presently headed. This collaboration yielded a four song demo produced by Crushed Red Records. The four band members continued to write and perform music that combined Spaghetti Western, gypsy jazz, and bluegrass with a mildly tropical twist. As the evolution of the troupe continued Bob Frech (trumpet, drums) complimented the dynamic and further migrated the sound in a more Southwesterly direction. Cole moved to New York City to pursue his studies at NYU, so Chris Dammann has stepped in to fill the gap with his own unique bass stylings.
Time Out Chicago
Description:
This local quartet plays what could only be called “soundtrack music.” Its repertoire basically sounds like dramatic background music indicating, say, the advent of a gunfight or the main characters' arrival in an exotic small town. And they do it with bluegrass instrumentation; Tom McGettrick's banjo takes all the lead lines. This is an interesting idea that the group should take farther.
FIREWATER - LIVE DEMONSTRATIONS! Last shows until October!
Jun 26 : Larz, GERMANY : Fusion Festival Jun 27 : Audincourt, FRANCE : Rencontres & Racines Jun 28 : Istanbul, TURKEY : Balkan Soundz Festival July 02 : Dornbirn, AUSTRIA : Speilboden July 03 : Bulle, SWITZERLAND : Gibloux Festival July 04 : Jena, GERMANY : JG Stadtmitte July 05 : Hradec Kralove, CZECH R.: Rock For People July 06 : Vienna, AUSTRIA : Szene Wein July 08 : Linz, AUSTRIA : Posthof July 10 : Steyr, AUSTRIA : Röda July 11 : Bologna, ITALY : Mondiali Antirazzisti July 12 : Milano, ITALY : Magnolia Festival July 13 : Colmar, FRANCE : Hiero July 15 : Paris, FRANCE : Batofar July 17 : Pozega, CROATIA : Dirty Old Empire Festival July 18 : Veszprem, HUNGARY : Utcazene Fesztivál July 24 : Riberac, FRANCE : Le Grand Souk Festival July 25 : Gdynia, POLAND : Globaltica Festival July 31 : Namur, BELGIUM : Esperanzha Festival Aug 01 : Habere-Poche, FRANCE : Rock'n'Poche Festival Aug 02 : Bladel, NETHERLANDS : Bladelse Zomerfeesten
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thanks for wondering! yeah, most of what we played is recorded somewhere between my two full lengths, country ep and an old ep. i think only one song would be impossible to find. just let me know if there's anything in particular you want to get ahold of.
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