The Earth Stringband is blogging from the Rhythm Road.
What’s that, you say? To quote the band’s tour blog, “The Rhythm Road is a program put on by the State Department and Jazz at Lincoln Center. . . to share America’s unique contribution to the world of music and to promote cross-cultural understanding and exchange among nations worldwide.” Like this:
Band members Sam Grisman, Andy Reiner, Eric Robertson, and Stash Wyslouch are among Berklee’s most popular and crowd-pleasing roots music alumni, so we’re by no means surprised this was the Laotian students’ reaction:
And just in case you thought the ESB boys weren’t committed to cultural exchange. . . look at what they ate:
Wish we could be there! (Except for, maybe, that particular dinner course.) We’ll be posting periodic updates from the tour—but the band members are excellent storytellers so you should read about the band’s Laotian stops in full detail.
- Rhythm Road 4: Tap-dancing into Timor-Leste - October 5, 2011
- Rhythm Road 3: The Earth Stringband comes to Cambodia - September 30, 2011
- A Weird Al for the Justin Bieber generation? - September 29, 2011
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