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The Banjo Lounge Trio

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Music Description: A Swinging Vegas Lounge Party Trio

Price Range: Packages range from £400 to £2000

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Sample Music

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About the Band

'Swinging Sounds and Funky Grooves The Five String Way'

Formed in Edinburgh in November 2007 the Banjo Lounge Trio are a finger-popping, tune-swinging acoustic trio that combine the awesome power of double bass with fat strumming acoustic guitar and the novelty redneck jazz styling of the five string banjo.

Probably Scotland's only banjo led three piece the band have many years of gigging experience at all levels of the music business and they know exactly how to get the room jumping and jiving. Everything came about when the founder of London's The Incredibly Strange Film Band (movers and shakers in the 1990's easy listening boom and the world's finest TV and film theme tunes covers band) Pat McGarvey moved to Leith with his crazy banjo in tow. Wanting to get out gigging those loveable classic theme tunes and easy listening hits once more he decided to set the wheels of cheese in motion.

Deciding on a more portable and stripped back format than the ISFB (an unwieldy 11 piece brass led funk band) he decided to trim the tunes back to their bare essentials, the banjo picking up the lead leaving the double bass and guitar to cover the backbeat. With the band's harmony vocals added on top this great new sound was complete and they found it fitted those classic schmaltzy tunes perfectly.

So with their love of crooners, stylish pop and cheese shining through, anyone with a passion for great live music will be excited, impressed and in love after a Banjo Lounge Trio show. But of course it's not only the oldies, there’s more up-to-date songs getting the BLT treatment like Addicted To Love (only twenty years old), Smells Like Teen Spirit (a mere seventeen years old) and even the odd proper almost-modern one like The White Stripes' 7 Nation Army.

It's an electric atmosphere all the way from this band so expect a thrilling mixture of classic pop from the 60's to the present day and bit of Johnny Cash style rock'n'roll, some very-danceable funky acoustic Motown plus a heavy sprinkling of lovely Tom Jones style cheese...

Sample Set List

Spanish Flea - Herb Alpert and His Tijuana Brass/Tell Me When (Quando Quando Quando) - Englebert Humperdink/For Once In My Life - Sammy Davis Jnr/The Pink Panther Theme - Henry Mancini/The Bear Necessities - Disney's Jungle Book/Bring Me Sunshine - Morecambe and Wise/Smells Like Teen Spirit - Paul Anka/Lovecats - The Cure/Music To Watch Girls By - Andy Williams/Ring Of Fire - Johnny Cash/It's Not Unusual - Tom Jones/Don't Stop Til You Get Enough - Michael Jackson/Take Me Out - Franz Ferdinand/Jolene - Dolly Parton/Straight Down The Middle - Bing Crosby/Volare - Dean Martin and many many more…


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