Hi, have you heard of NEW music band "Bering Strait" from Nashville?

..in February '04, they released their first record and nabbed
their first Grammy nomination. And in a few months, their second
record will be released.

Named after the waterway that divides Russia from America, this
band does the opposite - it connects them. Ilya Toshinsky is the
band's founding member, and he's been dreaming of making it big in
American country music since he was 15 - which was not music to his
parents' ears. Most of the band members are the children of elite
Soviet scientists. When Toshinsky, at age 11, heard a tune by
legendary banjo player Earl Scruggs. "I totally fell ! in love, "
says Toshinsky. "I begged my teacher to let me learn how to play
banjo." He found sheet music at the Library in Moscow and was a fast
learner. Soon, other kids at the music school flocked to him. In
fact, another student, Sasha Ostrovsky, was so interested that he
decided to take up, of all things, the dobro - something no one in
the school had ever seen before.

Lydia Salnikova is the band's pianist, Sergei "Spooky" Olkhovsky
plays bass, and Alexander Arzamastsev joined the band as a drummer
after he finished military service. In the early 1990s, these
bluegrass babies from Obninsk became a phenomenon. "We'd play and
people came from all over the place to look at us," says
Borzilova. "We just had the hat sitting there. And people would throw
money. They decided to make a move. "It was obvious that there was
only one place in this world where you go to become a country
musician. And that is Nashville," says Toshinsky.

That instrumental stuff that they do is just dazzling. A Russian
band nominated for a Grammy. More info at: www.beringstrait.com

Email their Consert to your Friends (cut & paste)

http://www.ticketmaster.com/email_friend?
event_id=040038A6D6452CD4&tm_link=tm_edp_eaf


Regards,

Ahtiander
your Moderator ; )


PS - Check out their cool pic at our Links File (^o^