"The Strangest Christmas Yet"
"Santa Fe"
"On The Water"
The new album from Steve Martin and The Steep Canyon Rangers, The Long-Awaited Album, is available now.
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The new album from Steve Martin and The Steep Canyon Rangers, titled The Long-Awaited Album, featuring the new track "Caroline", is available now. Listen to "Caroline" here.
Order the album at the Official Store
Order the album at Amazon: CD | Vinyl
Watch the video for the new track, "Caroline", from Steve Martin and The Steep Canyon Rangers here:
The new album from Steve Martin and The Steep Canyon Rangers, titled The Long-Awaited Album, will be available September 22. Pre-order the album here.
Starring
Amy Schumer
Keegan-Michael Key
Laura Benanti
Alan Tudyk
Directed by Jerry Zaks
Previews begin Wednesday, November 1 at the Booth Theatre
Opening Night set for Wednesday, November 29
Tickets are now on sale
It’s a hot night in Ojai, California, and Corky (Amy Schumer) and her husband Norm (Alan Tudyk) are having another couple over for dinner. But Laura (Laura Benanti) and Gerald (Keegan-Michael Key) aren't looking for a casual evening of polite small talk with new friends. Eventually, the two couples find themselves in a marital free-fall matched in velocity and peril only by the smoldering space rocks tearing through the sky. Entertaining has never been more entertaining than in this “cosmic comedy from the master of the American absurd” (Variety).
Visit meteoronbroadway.com for more info and tickets.
The 2017 recipient of the Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Banjo and Bluegrass is Scott Vestal.
Scott is an in demand session player around Nashville, and has his own recording studio, Digital Underground, where he engineers, produces, and plays on various projects including an award winning series of instrumental recordings for Pinecastle Records, and has worked with the likes of Bill Monroe, Sam Bush, David Lee Roth, John Jorgenson, Tim O’Brien, Jim Lauderdale, Rick Moranis, Shawn Camp, Ricky Skaggs, Pat Flynn, Jerry Douglas, John Cowan, Tony Rice, Vassar Clements, Larry Sparks, Doyle Lawson And Quicksilver, Livewire, Continental Divide, Donny and Marie Osmond, Chris Thile, Paul Craft, John Randall, SHeDAISY, Shawn Camp, Hank Williams III, Laura Love, Kenny Chesney, Ashton Shepherd, Jim Lauderdale, Del McCoury, Dierks Bentley, Dailey and Vincent, Daniel O’Donnell, Tommy Shaw, Joe Nichols, Billy Ray Cyrus, Alan Jackson, Dolly Parton, John Oates, and many others.
In addition to being an outstanding musician, Scott is also a composer, writing nine of the thirteen compositions on his first solo project, “In Pursuit Of Happiness”, and nine out of twelve on his latest release, “Millennia”.
Along with his busy recording schedule Scott has been touring with Sam Bush for the past 10 years and has his own banjo company, Stealth Banjos, which he has designed and developed over the past 25 years.
For more information about Scott Vestal and the Prize, visit banjo.stevemartin.com.
The 2016 recipient of the Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Banjo and Bluegrass is Rhiannon Giddens.
Rhiannon Giddens occupies a unique position in the world of banjo music, bridging contemporary and traditional forms and the cultures of three continents. Few musicians have done more to revitalize old-time sounds in the last decade. Drawing from blues, jazz, folk, hip-hop, traditional African, Celtic, and jug band music, she has brought tremendous vitality and artistry to her live and recorded performances. Her work as a solo artist and with the Carolina Chocolate Drops has highlighted the banjo’s history as an African and an African-American instrument, and resurrected black string band music for a new generation.
Her musical career began with opera training at Oberlin College, then segued into Scottish and Celtic music, with a sideline in calling contra dances. In 2005, Giddens attended the Black Banjo Gathering at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC, a conference dedicated to exploring the roots of banjo music. There, she met Dom Flemons and Justin Robinson, with whom she founded the Carolina Chocolate Drops. The three started making weekly trips to play and study with veteran fiddler Joe Thompson. Albums, touring, and widespread acclaim ensued, including a Grammy for Best Traditional Folk Album for Genuine Negro Jig in 2011. In recent years, she’s branched out into solo recording projects, including Tomorrow is My Turn, which was nominated for a Grammy for Best Folk Album in 2016. In addition to the contemporary five-string banjo, she has performed on gourd banjo, nineteenth-century minstrel banjo, and the three-stringed African akonting. She has emerged as a multi-instrumentalist who is passionate about bringing the sound and feel of old-time black string bands into the twenty-first century. Along the way, she has become a historian as well as a musician.
For more information about Rhiannon Giddens, visit banjo.stevemartin.com.
Steve Martin and Edie Brickell have won the Drama Desk Award for "Best Music" (Bright Star)!
Bright Star is playing now at the Cort Theatre on Broadway. For ticket info, visit brightstarmusical.com
Learn 3-finger and clawhammer style banjo parts for the musical, “Bright Star,” written by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell with the Bright Star banjo app.
Available for free in the iTunes App Store. Click here for more details.
