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Andy's Ramble
The Bluegrass Club of Long Island will be hosting a mandolin workshop/concert with Andy Statman at the Frank Brush Barn March 5th. The workshop will start at 1 - 2:30 pm with an open Bluegrass Jam to follow. Then Andy will perform with his bluegrass band Andy's Ramble from 6:30 - 8:30. The workshop fee is a $10 donation to the Bluegrass Club and the concert is $15 on line presale or $20 at the the door. Tickets can be found at http://www.longislandbluegrass.org
HAD THERE BEEN a planetarium in 19th-century Galicia, or a kosher deli in Depression-era Kentucky, Andy Statman's music might have been playing in the background. Meandering through time, geography and culture, the man and his inimitable hybrid sound move freely among the before, the after, and the present.
Andy Statman, one of his generation's premier mandolinists and clarinetists, thinks of his compositions and performances as "spontaneous
American-roots music and personal, prayerful hasidic music, by way of avant-garde jazz." This modest man takes for granted that a performer
might embody several worlds in his art, and seems humbled by the fact that his music, like his story, is extraordinary.
Andy's musical journey began early, when he was a child in Queens, not far from his current home in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Born into a family with a long line of cantors and some well-known professional musicians in the family tree, Andy grew up singing hasidic melodies in the afternoon Jewish school his parents sent him to, and listening to show tunes, klezmer, and classics - along with every other variety of music playing within earshot.
Indeed, young Andy had ravenous ears, absorbing the early sounds of rock and roll and the beginnings of the folk revival. But after his brother brought home a vintage record by Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, Andy became obsessed with bluegrass, which he would tune into via shortwave radio from West Virginia. He sent away for a method booklet, and picked up the guitar and banjo on his own. Eventually he would discover his love for the mandolin.
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LocationThe Smithtown Historical Society Frank Brush Barn (View)
239 E Main St
Smithtown, NY 11787
United States
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