Monday, September 15, 2008
If history has taught me anything it’s that when times get hard, people turn to banjo players for guidance. In the face of the current financial crisis, I will be offering the tonic of the five-string banjo to the citizens of Alphabet City, USA.
Curtis EllerThursday, Sept. 18 @ 8:00pm
Banjo Jim’s700 E. 9th St (@Ave. C)
New York, NY
212.777.0869
no cover, no dresscodeIt’s the least I can do in these dark days. I hope to see you downtown.
Fondest Regards,
Curtis
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Curtis Eller's American Circuswww.myspace.com/curtisellerwww.curtiseller.comCritical Praise for “Wirewalkers & Assassins"“A left-field classic that is already one of my albums of the year” - fROOTS MAGAZINE (London)If you think the line "I'm gonna get fucked up like Ulysses S. Grant" is genius, this album is for you. -SEPIACHORD (Seattle)“It’s a gasoline and pistol sort of justice that has the spirit of that old sound, but with a modern perspective infused throughout” - FOLK IT UP (Chicago)“like finding a tube radio from some alternate reality that only plays songs about dusty roads, boxing, and circus catastrophes. And what a brilliant tune it is!” -LIAR SOCIETY (Binghamton, NY)“Traversing roughly the same carny-goth-Americana terrain as Beat Circus, Humanwine and even the Dresden Dolls. In other words: it’s good” - BOSTON PHOENIX (Boston)
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https://curtiseller.com
Playing Since: 1984
Experience Level: Expert/Professional
curtiseller has made 5 recent additions to Banjo Hangout
Interests:
[Teaching] [Jamming] [Socializing] [Helping]
Occupation: Banjo player, songwriter, rock & roll singer
Gender: Male
Age: 56
My Instruments:
Buckeye (no.113), Bart Reiter (Standard), Gold Star (GF-100FE)
Favorite Bands/Musicians:
Elvis Presley, Buster Keaton and Abraham Lincoln
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Curtis Eller is a banjo player, songwriter and rock & roll singer. A twenty-year show business veteran, Eller and his band The American Circus have developed a devoted international following based on dynamic, highly physical stage performances and an extensive catalog of curious phonographic recordings. The iconoclastic musician has spent more than a decade relentlessly touring the club, theatre and festival stages of a dozen countries in North America and Europe.
Eller is a gifted and prolific songwriter who's banjo-driven songs describe a dreamlike vision of American history where all points in time have collapsed into one. The American Circus is diligently at work on a new full-length album on which they have augmented their indelicate, rock & roll rhythms with a tempestuous cloud of horns and an graceless choir of backsliders in their quest to bring Eller's historically evocative compositions to vivid, cinematic life.
