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The Gilded Bats
Roots Music / Folk / Americana

"Bats: You Need Them More Than You Know!"

Iowa City, Iowa
United States

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Last Login:  7/23/2008
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   The Gilded Bats: General Info
Member Since4/11/2006
Band Website myspace.com/thegildedbats
Band MembersView The Gilded Bats's EPK
View The Gilded Bats's EPK Bill Bryant - guitar, vocals; Andrew Epstein - banjo, vocals; Norbert Sarsfield - fiddle, guitar, mandolin, vocals; Chris Clark - washtub bass
InfluencesWest Virginia fiddlers (Edden Hammons, Burl Hammons, Melvin Wine, Ernie Carpenter, French Carpenter, Wilson Douglas, Lester McCumbers, Jimmy Triplett, Gerry Milnes, Scott Prouty); Edward Gorey; Holy Modal Rounders; Foghorn String Band; Rayna Gellert; Clyde Davenport; Cordelias Dad; Kerry Blech; Bruce Molsky; Rhythm Rats; John Salyer; Bruce Greene
Sounds Like
Record LabelMud Dauber Records - www.muddauberrecords.com
Type of LabelIndie





   Upcoming Shows ( view all )
Aug 8 2008 12:15P
MC Ginsberg Iowa City, Iowa
Aug 9 2008 7:00P
Englert Theatre Iowa City, Iowa
Aug 13 2008 5:00P
Market Music Series Iowa City, Iowa
Aug 14 2008 6:00P
Party in the Park Iowa City, Iowa
Aug 23 2008 7:00P
Iowa City Barn Dance Iowa City, Iowa
Sep 13 2008 1:00P
Four Mounds Historic Site Dubuque, Iowa
Sep 21 2008 12:00P
Iowa Friends of Old-Time Music Fiddlers Picnic Iowa City, Iowa
Sep 27 2008 7:00P
Carl Sandburg Historic Site Iowa City, Iowa

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   About The Gilded Bats
The Gilded Bats are an Iowa City old-time string band. Some of the places we've played since forming in 2003 include: Hancher Auditorium (with Dan Zanes); The Mill (including opening for the Mammals); High Noon Saloon in Madison, Wisc. (opening for the Carolina Chocolate Drops); Uptown Bills; Muscatine Watermelon Jam; Musser Public Library; Carl Sandburg Birthplace in Galesburg, Illinois; Iowa Friends of Old Time Music Fiddlers Picnic; Brewed Awakenings in Cedar Rapids; Iowa City, Coralville, and Mt. Vernon Farmers Markets; Iowa City's Family Fun Night; West Branch Friday Night Concert Series; and the West Branch Fall Festival. We also love to play for dances, and have played for several in West Branch, Fairfield, and Rock Island. If you come out to see us play don't be afraid to move your feet, and be sure to stop by and say howdy! ===================================================== CD REVIEW The Gilded Bats play old timey folk music. If you look on the back of the CD there's a logo for the Iowa Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. These guys wrote grants to pay for this CD - pretty nice trick I'd say. But The Gilded Bats aren't just clever, banjo-strumming slackers, there's some real meat on those bones/wings. The Gilded Bats are a lot more polished and less punk rock than their fellow travelers Escape the Floodwater Jug Band, but they have what a lot of traditional music seems to be lacking these days: attitude. There are a lot of talented musicians in Iowa City making music superficially similar to that of The Gilded Bats, but to my ears, most of it isn't nearly as interesting. I can't even put my finger on why that is, except that despite their accomplished musicianship they bring out the darkness, dirt and grit that keeps folk music from being safe and boring. --Kent Williams, Little Village, November 2007 ====================================================== CD REVIEW The debut disc on artist/engineer/producer Patrick Brickel's new label, "The Gilded Bats" showcases a muscular, energetic old-time stringband that's steadily been expanding its profile in Eastern Iowa. Comprised of Norbert Sarsfield (fiddle), Andrew Epstein (banjo, jaw harp), Billy Bryant (guitar) and Chris Clark (washtub bass), The Gilded Bats apply their kinetic pickin' to an endearing set of 16 evergreens culled from the hill-country canon -- and everybody sings with gusto. Befitting a band whose moniker was cribbed from the title of a 1966 novel by eccentric Gothic marvel Edward Gorey, the songs' subjects tend to be at least a tad bit twisted, as in the Holy Modal Rounders' "Give the Fiddler a Dram" -- "Pretty little girl with a red dress on/She took it off/I put it on/In come Johnny with the big boots on ..." Funded in part by a grant from the Iowa Arts Council, "The Gilded Bats" is crisply played and sung, and the disc is brilliantly recorded and mastered (kudos to Justin Kennedy and Brickel), resulting in a freshly-packed barn dance that's ready to go. -- Jim Musser, Iowa City Press-Citizen, 11/08/2007 ___________________________________________________________________ Buy the CD
THE GILDED BATS: The Gilded Bats
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_______________________________________________________________________ Click here to buy our music via Apple iTunes: The Gilded Bats - The Gilded Bats..

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Jeffrey Frederick





Jul 9 2008 3:51 PM

Jeffrey Frederick videos now on MySpace! Historical, hysterical and just damn great -- check them out!!!!

The Titles

Robbin' Banks
Rotten Lettuce
Beer Shits
Saturday Night
Third Floor Judy
Tell Me Why
Poor Al
Sweet Hollywaiians





Jun 26 2008 5:09 AM


ALOHA!!!
Big Hungry Joe





Jun 4 2008 2:17 AM

Hi Gilded Bats.

We thought that you might be interested to hear that our CD is now available at CD Baby.

Buy the CD
BIG HUNGRY JOE: Hillbilly Hayride
click to order


Jesper
Big Hungry Joe
Old-time band from Denmark
Anna





May 21 2008 12:45 PM

You guys rock my socks off! Hope to get down to IC one of these days to hear ya'll.
:)
Jacob Green





Apr 6 2008 10:45 AM

just lettin' ya know i put 2 new tunes up from my new album "Back to Life" out on 04/20/08!!!
Sweet Hollywaiians





Mar 16 2008 4:14 PM


ALOHA!!
Whiskey For Breakfast Records





Mar 14 2008 10:46 PM

Happy birthday Norbert! We had a fun time celebrating you (even when nobody knew where you were)!
mamasara





Mar 14 2008 6:14 AM

YAY Bats! Thanks for playing at the party! Gabe had fun dancing!
Steven Hedgpeth





Feb 28 2008 2:56 PM

Thanks for the add!
Compositor Cubano Carbo





Jan 18 2008 6:57 PM

Thanks for the add!Photobucket
Sepiachord





Jan 14 2008 1:51 AM

"Black Eyed Susie" by The Gilded Bats is the Sepiachord Song of the Day.

Gilded Bats

Swamp Rebels





Jan 13 2008 10:34 PM

thanks for the add...!!
Old Time Music Forum (Europe)





Jan 6 2008 11:52 AM

Finally got round to downloading your CD yesterday.
Why the heck didn't you tell us all it was so special?
It's a PEACH!
Have a crackerjack night with the "Chocolate Drops"!
Cheers
Dick
Dingus





Dec 31 2007 4:39 AM

Hello boys.Happy New Year!
Mark (Radio Show Host)





Dec 23 2007 5:41 PM

BRB xmas
Brian Smyth





Dec 23 2007 3:52 PM

Thanks for the add. Nice version of Black Eyed Suzie BTW...one my favorite tunes.

Regards,
Brian
Rosalee Motor Revival





Dec 21 2007 11:35 AM

thx for the add caught at the java house in Nov...sounded real slick.

xo-romorev
Lisa Genee





Dec 10 2007 8:53 PM

Just swinging by to listen to some handsome tunes...Cheers!
Lonesome Pine Special





Dec 6 2007 8:28 PM

Thanks for the add. You guys sound great. I have to congratulate you for singing Black-eyed Suzie in D. Nice job LPS
Jesper Deleuran





Dec 3 2007 11:08 AM

Thanks for the add. Nice to have you as space friends here too.

Jesper