Turbo Pro Project

We're excited to announce that today we joined the family of K&B music.  We look forward to working with them and what the future holds!

We will split two shows, back to back, April 21 and 22, w/ a NYC band called 'Gangstagrass'.  Turbo has known band leader 'Rench' for years when they both started their hip hop fusion.  Rench's angle was orignially country/hip hop but now has a bluegrass band w/ himself on beats/vocals and an emcee.  We can't wait to collaborate and see what the future may hold for more.  More info can be found on our 'calendar' tab.  Hope to see you there!

 

Those of you on our email list have heard us talk about being involved with a banjo documentary this past summer.  We'll join the likes of Bela Fleck, the Carolina Chocolate Drops, and Pete Seeger to name a few.  Turbo also scored a good portion of the film.

The film was produced by award winning film maker Steve Crump and company.  Steve has garnished five Emmy's for past projects. 

This piece, 'Sojourn of the Strings', traces the roots of the banjo from Africa to America.  It will premiere Thursday, November 18, at the Mint Museum of Art in Charlotte, NC.

A reception and screening are planned starting at 6:30pm.  RSVP to Pat Meyer at (704)-371-8801 to reserve a seat.

We're honored to be included in this and look forward to seeing it on the screen!

No worries, we're still here!  We're only doing a few select shows this fall/winter to finish CD production (and possibly scoring a documentary we're involved with.  More details forthcoming when it's clear to release them). 

That's the latest scoop!

We're planning a European tour for the near future.  It's a tall order and if it's to happen we'll need some help.  Contacts such as promoters, festivals, clubs, house concerts, etc. would be great. 

We notice that we get a lot of overseas visitors to this site and would love to hear from you.  If you can provide any leads or contacts that pan out we'll reward you!

Our target regions are Switzerland, Germany and possibly France, however, we are open to other regions in Europe (and out of). 

If you have any information please use the 'contact' tab for email links.  Thanks!

Recently the Winston-Salem journal's fine entertainment publication, 'Relish', did a nice article on us.  The paper copy had yours truly on the cover and a nice two page spread.  You can find the online article here on Banjoman Dan's blog. 

Check out this nice review of the live performance we did w/ Kianga Ford. Now that it's finished it's time to reflect and this review sums it up quite nicely!

Check out Part II of the NPR podcast!

We're in the waning days of wrapping up the production for the project listed below. It will be unveiled Wednesday, August 5 in Winston-Salem NC at 'The Garage'. Details can be found on our calendar page. In the meantime you can catch a NPR podcast with Kianga Ford and SECCA curator Steven Matijcio giving more insight on this project (along with music by yours truly). Enjoy!

Recently we were approached by LA/Boston based artist Kianga Ford about collaborating on a project; one that is part of a series of scored narrative audio tours called "The Story of This Place". This project was commissioned by SECCA as part of the 2009 public art program "Inside Out: Artists in the Community II". It will be unveiled sometime during the National Black Theatre Festival August 3-8. We look forward to working on this and will be busy bees until then!

Last week Turbo and Tad Dickens (of the Roanoke Times) 'sat' down and chatted about the band. The article and podcast can be found here Big thanks to Tad and the Roanoke Times!

We're going to be doing future news letters from our ReverbNation page. Those who have signed up for prior news letters have received a confirmation in their inbox to confirm their participation. It's important to note that it could have ended up in your 'spam' box. ReverbNation does not give addresses out, so sign up today if you haven't already!

We're using most of this month to jump back on the new CD. New tunes are flowing and it feels good to be back on it. Look for a possible club date at the month's end. We have a lot of cool things ahead of us and more on the way!

Recently we had new artwork done by artist (of the highest degree) Sean Kernick of Uprock Media. He's done work for the stars and now we have his artwork blessing our gig posters. Visit the blog he created about it and have a look!

We just uploaded our first exclusive video to our ReverbNation page. The song (Creepin') is from a recent live show we did in Boone NC. Turbo and RnB wrote this gem which will appear on our next album. Here's a sneak peak! Check our ReverbNation page often for more exclusive media to come. The page can be found in our links section.

Happy '09 from the band! It may have seemed like we dropped off the planet in December but worry not, we got a great start on our next CD. Look for new dates to pop up as we confirm them. Hope to see you out there. We look forward to the New Year!

We played our last festival for the season Sunday, October 12th at the Loki music festival. The weather was absolutely beautiful as was the venue. It was held at the scenic 'Deerfields' south of Asheville NC. We played to a large, energetic crowd at the Hillside stage. For an encore we did our rendition of Dueling Banjos (Turntables vs Banjo). Stay tuned for media from this and other events (if you have any to share we'd love to have it). It was an honor to share the stage with all the amazing acts this year at the festivals. It was also a pleasure meeting new fans and sharing our sound with you. We hope to continue this trend next year. In the meantime, this fall/winter we'll be working towards our next CD and doing some club dates in between. Stay tuned, tell everyone ya know about us, and we hope to see you soon!

If you missed our interview on WNCW... You can catch it on Friday, September 12 and again on Sunday, September 21! The Friday show runs from 8-10 pm EST. The Sunday show runs from 7-9 pm EST. Those outside the listening area can tune in here: http://www.wncw.org/ListenLive.html

Wow...what a time we had at our first Floydfest! It's one not to be missed. Thanks to all that help put this on and those who came to our shows. (If you took any pictures or videos we'd love to see them, send 'em our way!)

...have signed up for our email list at a live show and haven't yet recieved one...it's because we couldn't read your email! You can simply sign up for our list here. Thanks.

NPR station WNCW will be featuring our CD on the show "Local Color" this Friday, March 21. The show starts at 9pm EST and runs until 11pm. It airs again on Sunday's from 7pm-8:30 pm. For those of you outside the listening area you can listen online here: http://www.wncw.org/ListenLive.html

Our long awaited debut CD is now out and ready for purchasing. We also have super fresh band t-shirts to go with them. Links are now up to buy the CD. Stay tuned for a link to buy the t-shirts...