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Blue Grass Boogiemen
Blue Grass Boogiemen
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Bluegrass from the Netherlands?
Bluegrass. 1751. Being any of several American grasses of the Poa genus and having a bluish cast, earlier called Dutch grass (1671).
(Source: ´I hear America talking; an illustrated history of American words and phrases´ by Stuard Berg Flexner)
We are the Blue Grass Boogiemen, a.k.a. the Hillbilly Boogiemen from Holland. As the Hillbilly Boogiemen (named after the song ´Hillbilly Boogie´ by the Delmore Brothers) we´ve been playing vintage country, rockabilly and bluegrass professionally since 1990. Our line up consists of the four of us playing all the instruments the aforementioned styles require; apart from the bluegrass instruments (mandolin, banjo, guitar, upright bass and fiddle) there´s lap-steel, blues harp, electric guitar and a snare drum played when needed.
As the Blue Grass Boogiemen we play strictly acoustic instruments standing around just one omni-directional microphone. Our show has proved to be very successful not only in Europe (in Ireland we won the ´Waterford Crystal Bowl´ for ´most popular band´ at the Guinness Inter-national Bluegrass Festival, in Holland we won the ´Silver Fiddle Award´ and recently for the sixth time the ´Gram Parsons Award´ both for best acoustic country/bluegrass band and beat Alison Krauss to the number one spot in the ´Strictly Country´ charts) but also in America.
Fiddler Byron Berline wrote: ´Your band was singled out as one of our ´don´t miss´, ´please have them back´ and ´we love them´ groups...´ after we appeared at his international bluegrass festival in Guthrie, OK, for the first time. Since then we´ve played his festival almost every year. The Washington Post wrote: ´...the Boogiemen mimicked American music icons with absolute accuracy and joy...´ and ´Mandolinist Arnold Lasseur did Bill Monroe proud...´ after we played in Arlington, VA. About our recorded work the Bluegrass Unlimited magazine wrote: ´This is a highly entertaining band that comfortably handles a range of music with flair, taste and energy. Readers would be well advised to catch this band when they come through town. It should be a great show´ and also ´Gosh, this is what the music world´s been missing, isn´t it?...When I first played this album, which is an immensely entertaining collection, I thought I was listening to some unusually talented country-bluegrass band from Ohio or Michigan or some such place.’ But no, we´re from Holland allright. Holland, Europe that is! However we´re willing to travel to where ever you´d want us to play. So make your event truly international, contact us and book ´...one of the most hard-hitting, versatile and entertaining bands on any continent...´ as Bluegrass Europe magazine put it.
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- Aart Schroevers (upright bass)
- Robert-Jan Kanis (guitar)
- Arnold Lasseur (mandoline, fiddle)
- Bart van Strien (banjo, fiddle, mouthharp)
- Lody van Vlodrop (fiddle)
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