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THE GREENCARDS
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AUSTIN, Texas
United States

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   THE GREENCARDS: General Info
Member Since10/12/2005
Band Websitewww.thegreencards.com
Band Members
Carol Young (AUSTRALIA) - vocals/bass. Kym Warner (AUSTRALIA) - vocals/mandolin/bouzouki. Eamon McLoughlin (ENGLAND) - vocals/violin/viola/cello

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Influences
Newgrass Revival, Patty Griffin, Tim O'Brien, Lyle Lovett, David Gilmour, Mollie O'Brien, Robert Earl Keen, Chris Thile, Bryan Sutton, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Sam Bush, Alison Krauss, Buddy Miller, Jerry Douglas, Mark O'Connor, Bonnie Raitt, Tom Petty, Beck and loads more!
Record LabelSugar Hill Records
Type of LabelIndie


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Jan 14 2010 7:00P
EDDIES ATTIC w/ The Stringdusters Decatur GA
Jan 15 2010 9:00P
THE WORKPLAY THEATRE w/ The Stringdusters Birmingham AL
Jan 16 2010 8:00P
THE SQUARE ROOM w/ The Stringdusters Knoxville TN
Jan 22 2010 8:00P
Tad Akers Event Facility League City TX
Mar 6 2010 6:00P
Port Fairy Folk Festival Port Fairy VIC (AUSTRALIA)
Mar 7 2010 8:30P
Port Fairy Folk Festival Port Fairy VIC (AUSTRALIA)
Mar 8 2010 11:00A
Port Fairy Folk Festival Port Fairy VIC (AUSTRALIA)
Apr 2 2010 3:00P
Byron Bay Bluesfest Byron Bay AUSTRALIA
Apr 3 2010 3:00P
Byron Bay Bluesfest Byron Bay AUSTRALIA
Apr 4 2010 4:00P
Byron Bay Bluesfest Byron Bay AUSTRALIA
Apr 30 2010 3:00P
Merlefest Wilkesboro NC
May 1 2010 3:00P
Merlefest Wilkesboro NC
May 14 2010 8:00P
Kah-Nee-Ta High Recort and Casino Warm Springs OR
May 21 2010 9:00P
Crystal Bay Casino Crystal Bay NV
May 22 2010 7:00P
Private Event Sacramento CA
May 24 2010 7:30P
Sierra Nevada Big Room Chico CA
May 30 2010 6:00P
MeadowGrass Colorado Springs CO
Jun 5 2010 4:00P
Strawberry Park Bluegrass Festival Preston CT
Jun 6 2010 3:00P
Strawberry Park Bluegrass Festival Preston CT
Aug 6 2010 5:00P
Podunk Festival East Hartford CT
Sep 17 2010 3:00P
Walnut Valley Festival Winfield KS
Sep 18 2010 2:00P
Walnut Valley Festival Winfield KS
Nov 21 2010 4:00P
Dyck Arboretum Hesston KS

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   About THE GREENCARDS
You could call it an attraction…a curiosity…an anticipation of surprise and delight. But there’s a better word to describe what the music of The Greencards inspires. Fascination. If you’ve followed this multinational threesome over these past five years, you know the feeling. From their personal histories through the content of their work, grounded in deep musical tradition but elevated by breathtaking technique and conceptual adventurousness, there is ample reason for interest … for excitement … For Fascination. Now, with their Sugar Hill Records debut, it’s official. Fascination describes the essence of this band. It was, first of all, their fascination with American roots music – bluegrass especially – that drew singer/bassist Carol Young and multiple string-instrument master Kym Warner from Australia, and violinist/violist Eamon McLoughlin from the U.K., to Austin, Texas, where they began performing together, and later to their current home base in Nashville. That urge to challenge themselves, to test the limits of any established genre, guided them on their first three albums. It kept them focused as they accumulated awards and acclamations, from the Americana Music Award in 2006 for “Emerging Artist of the Year” through tours with Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson to last year’s “Best Country Instrumental Performance” Grammy nomination for Viridian in 2008. All of which leads to Fascination, the band’s most daring accomplishment to date. Meticulously crafted arrangements serve as springboards for exhilarating improvisations. Acoustic textures shimmer in the light of Jay Joyce’s innovative production. On a dozen tracks, a dozen vistas open: an urgent urban scene on “The Avenue,” a dreamy shadowland on “Three Four Time,” a fiddle-sweetened reverie on “Outskirts of Blue,” a hallucination, as much silence as substance, equal parts jazz, blues, and Pulp Fiction on “Into the Blue,” a blaze of virtuosity unleashed on “Little Siam,” a mesh of pizzicato pulses on the title track that sounds something like a reggae jam inside a grandfather clock. Complex and rich as Fascination is, the motivation behind it couldn’t be simpler. “We set out to make this music different from anything we did on our first three albums,” Young explains. “So we wrote accordingly. And we took much more time than we’d ever taken before. Normally, we start writing a couple of weeks before recording …” “…and this time, we took eight or nine months,” says Warner. Writing on the road, The Greencards rode an accelerating current of creativity. They produced more prolifically than ever and, more important, evolved their sound beyond anything they might have anticipated even just a few years ago. Almost apprehensively, they tried out some of this material at bluegrass festivals, beginning with the title track. “There’s nothing bluegrass about that song,” says Warner, laughing. “We played it live just two days after we wrote it, and I was really surprised at how well it was received.” “This older gentleman came up to our merchandise desk and asked specifically for ‘Fascination,’” adds Young. “He actually said to me, ‘Hey, I like what you guys are doing – even the weird stuff.’” (continued…) Armed with an array of bold new songs, and signed to Sugar Hill--whose support for innovative acoustic music is well established--The Greencards decided to relinquish the production role they had reserved for themselves on previous albums. Even bolder was their choice of Jay Joyce for that role – a producer of impeccable credentials but a relatively short track record at helming all-acoustic projects. “We’d heard all these great records that Jay had made with Patty Griffin, John Hiatt and so many artists we love,” Young says. “But how would he utilize the fiddle, cello, mandolin, bouzouki, and bass – the core of the band – without putting layers and electronic sounds on it? We were very pleasantly surprised at how he just wanted us to play the songs and let our instruments speak for themselves.” “Most of the people who’ve heard Fascination have said the sum of its parts is greater than the parts themselves,” Warner points out. “That’s exactly what we wanted from Jay. In the past we’ve played the tracks as a band and then revisited them, adding things here and there. With Jay, we did a song a day. We wouldn’t even look at another song until the next day. That was a great way to treat each song on its merits.” “Jay is very modern in his tastes,” says McLoughlin. “He wants to achieve new things. But his approach is also quite organic, so it’s an almost contradictory fusion of the traditional and the modern, and that keeps it real.” “Real” is just the beginning. Young, who lofted two singles as a solo artist to the top of the Australian country charts prior to leaving for the States, more than meets the demands of this varied repertoire. Warm and reassuring on “Water in the Well,” wistfully romantic on “Lover I Love the Best,” eloquent in interpreting the epic lyric to “Davey Jones,” her vocals intersect perfectly with the string wizardry of Warner, four-time winner of the Australian National Bluegrass Mandolin Championship, and McLoughlin’s violin, viola, and cello artistry, developed during gigs as a child with his father’s country band in London. These efforts don’t break down as simply as lead vocals and accompaniment. Rather, think of Fascination as a puzzle whose pieces form one varied but unified image, whose music speaks as one voice, directly to the heart. More than that, Fascination represents the band’s achievement of its primary goal, which is to draw from the roots while also advancing the possibilities of the music that inspires them, with each side of this equation nourishing the other. Just as important, it challenges The Greencards to maintain this process onstage and in its future visits to the studio, by raising the levels of what they expect from themselves. “We went into the studio on Fascination from Day One that this wasn’t The Greencards two years ago – this is us moving forward,” Warner insists. “The issue with us now is where that’s going to take us over the next year.” “We have so many new songs to play and a new approach to present to audiences,” Young says. “That gives us something to work for. But that also makes it so much more interesting.” Is it really just about interest, though? Not with The Greencards. Their future goes beyond that; from this point, it’s about Fascination. ==========================================================



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The Greencards Musical Roots

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Fascination

Fascination
2009
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Viridian

Viridian
2007
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Weather And Water

Weather
And Water
2005
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Movin' On

Movin' On
2003
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Fascination

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2009
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Viridian

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2007
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2005
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2003
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Luis Hernandes

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Dec 16 2009 3:12 PM

wish to you a good Christmas holidays in good harmony.
Keep good music alive
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Dec 13 2009 11:41 AM

Hi:)

I wish you and your family Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and I wish you a fantastic and a great music year in 2010 :)

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Dec 11 2009 5:30 PM

Playing Ottobar in Baltimore tomorrow night, 12-12, check it!
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Dec 11 2009 2:26 PM

Hey THE GREENCARDS

My new record just came out this week on I-Tunes and CD Baby. An exclusive video and link to the new album is featured on my myspace blog. Please leave us some feedback to let us know what you think! Thanks for your support.

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PS: This album would make a great stocking stuffer ;)
Bruce

Bruce



Dec 10 2009 8:55 PM

Its almost Christmas. Time for the:
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Rebecca

Rebecca Talerico Murray



Dec 9 2009 2:52 AM

Congrats on the Grammy nomination....I am so happy & excited for all of you but I am sad to hear the news about Eamon leaving....very sad.....
Jorgen

Jørgen Petersen



Dec 7 2009 10:00 PM

Congratulations on the Grammy nominations with 'The Crystal Merchant'
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Kerry Dexter

Kerry Dexter



Dec 5 2009 5:19 PM

adding my congratulations on the Grammy nomination--
Tom Van Schaik

Tom Van Schaik



Dec 3 2009 10:15 PM

Congrats on the Grammy nod! I'll be pullin' for ya!
Curvy Jane

Curvy Jane



Dec 3 2009 6:17 AM

Sending HUGE CONGRATULATIONS on your Grammy Nomination! GOOD LUCK!
CJx
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Dec 3 2009 12:06 AM


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I hope that the upcoming holidays will be special for you this year.

Take care

Josh

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Vern Gosdin - 40 Years of The Voice

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Nov 24 2009 1:46 PM

Thanks to all the Vern Gosdin fans for their votes. Let's get The Voice into the Country Music Hall of Fame a.s.a.p.
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Chamisa



Nov 20 2009 2:51 AM

and that would be my 6 year old daughter-going on 16.
Chamisa

Chamisa



Nov 19 2009 6:46 PM

When my year old daughter was told she was going to a concert this friday and asked who she thought she was going to see this is what she said.
" Laryn Hill?" no "Alicia Keys? " nooo...Hannah Montana? uh no .IS IT THE GREENCARDS??? " yes and then came much shrieking. PRICELESS. so, sometimes songs like " Weather and Water" do trump Hanna Montana. See you Tomorrow! Blessings.
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