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CMA FEST WELCOMES NEW AND RETURNING PARTNER Chevrolet, Dr Pepper, Hard Rock Cafe and Good Molecules Featured as Stage Sponsors With CMA Fest kicking off a week from today in downtown Nashville, CMA announces new and repeat festival partners including Chevrolet, Dr Pepper, Hard Rock Cafe, Good Molecules, Anheuser-Busch, Louisiana Office of Tourism and CELSIUS. […]
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CMA FEST RETURNS TO DOWNTOWN NASHVILLE JUNE 6-9 Longest-Running Country Music Festival in the World Reveals Initial Artist Lineup Variety of Ticket Options On Sale Today at 10:00 AM/CT Including Single Night Nissan Stadium, Fan Fair X, and Riverside Retreat Portion of Ticket Proceeds Benefit Music Education Programs Across the Country Through the CMA Foundation […]
Découvrez Jean-François Gion, musicien multi-instrumentiste, mais surtout passionné de banjo 5 cordes. Regardez ses vidéos, visitez son site, guettez ses concerts et si vous désirez un professeur en Moselle, contactez-le au plus vite!
Jean-François Gion s’est pris de passion pour le banjo 5 cordes en écoutant Pete Seeger, puis s’est intéressé aux artistes américains et européens pratiquant cet instrument. Il a développé sa technique dans les deux styles, bluegrass et clawhammer. Il a été membre de plusieurs formations « Folk », a participé à différents spectacles (concerts, théâtre, jeune public, animations musicales…) , et quel que soit le style, ou le public visé, il a toujours eu un banjo à portée de la main.
Il y a quelques années, il a redécouvert le banjo Clawhammer, créatif, mélodique, expressif, et a pris conscience que ce style de banjo lui serait utile pour s’exprimer à sa façon, grâce également aux nombreuses manières d’accorder l’ instrument.
Jean-François parle de ses banjos clawhammer :
– « un vieux ‘‘Clifford Essex, Concert Grand », qu’a bien voulu me céder, il y a quelques années, Steve Waring
– un magnifique banjo, avec une touche un peu plus large (à ma demande), fait par le luthier Philippe Revel »
« A little Bird in Lyon »
« Roumania »
« Depuis de très nombreuses années, je m’adresse presque exclusivement, lors de mes spectacles, au « Jeune Public ». Parfois, ils me demandent, si je devais choisir un seul instrument, quel serait mon choix. J’hésitais. Maintenant je le sais, c’est celui avec lequel je passe de longs moments…le Banjo. » (Jean-François Gion)
Cette année encore, un très beau plateau d’artistes pour le Festival d’Alras à Barcelone (Espagne). Quelques photos souvenirs et une vidéo de la jam finale.
TONI GIMENEZ
HARMONICANT & FRED SIMON
THE SUNDAY SOFA PICKERS
FREDDY KENTUCKY
GRAZZTRIO (LLUIS GOMEZ, MARIBEL RIVERO & ORIOL GONZALEZ), avec ORIOL SANA & JOAN PAU CUMELLAS
LA WEST BLUEGRASS BAND
RUSS BARENBERG
HILLBILLY GYPSIES avec JAMIE LYNN & TRAE BUCKNER, RICKY ARAIZA
TH’ BOOTY HUNTERS
Et bravo encore à Lluis Gomez, banjoïste et violoniste, qui organise ce festival tous les ans
Un petit coup de projecteur sur un musicien de grand talent, par Jean-Marie Redon.
Fred Simon est un excellent musicien et pour notre bonheur son instrument de prédilection est le banjo. Vous pourrez le constater en regardant ces deux vidéos où il joue deux de ses compositions, l’une sur un banjo acoustique, l’autre sur un banjo électrique et midi. C’est le modèle « Cosmos » de la marque Nechville.
On entend dire que Fred Simon est le « Béla Fleck » français. Ce qui exaspère pour le moins Fred Simon et pour cause. Cette affirmation est réductrice. Fred Simon joue du Fred Simon et laissons Béla Fleck là où il est. Bien sûr chaque génération de banjoïstes a été marquée par un grand innovateur. Earl Scruggs ou Don Reno pour les premiers, puis Bill Keith pour la suite. Fred Simon est de celle de Béla Fleck. Il a été bien sûr influencé par ce maître mais il ne le copie pas, car il a le talent nécessaire pour jouer sa propre musique. Tout comme JD Crowe ou Sonny Osborne, par exemple, ont été influencés par Earl Scruggs, ou Alan Munde ou Tony Trischka par Bill Keith. Ils jouent tous leur propre musique après avoir intégré les techniques inventées par les grands maîtres.
Alors il est temps de se rendre compte qu’il existe en France un très grand joueur de banjo. A vous de juger.
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