WEBVTT 00:00:10.658 --> 00:00:18.214 - So again, thank you for being here. I'm so excited to welcome Gadan. I want to give you a little bit 00:00:18.214 --> 00:00:25.920 - of information about them. With no less than three, yes, three banjos, fiddle, mandolin, guitar, Gadan 00:00:25.920 --> 00:00:33.851 - delivers a powerful strings-only sound that bridges Irish tradition and contemporary roots music. Founded 00:00:33.851 --> 00:00:35.422 - by Lorenzo Testa and 00:00:35.842 --> 00:00:43.431 - Jacopo, I hope I'm saying that right, Ventura, renowned Italian musicians from the Irish and European 00:00:43.431 --> 00:00:50.870 - folk scenes. The group also boasts Young Fiddle Virtuosa, Joan, I have, not Joan, what is it? Juan, 00:00:50.870 --> 00:00:58.533 - Juan Gatti, tenor banjo all-star Ender Scahill, and acclaimed Appalachian songwriter, singer, and claw 00:00:58.533 --> 00:01:00.542 - hammer banjoist Eric Long. 00:01:00.738 --> 00:01:07.664 - Gadan's electrifying live performances bring precision, groove, and storytelling to the stage, proving 00:01:07.664 --> 00:01:13.918 - that you don't need a drum kit to make a crowd dance. Will you please help me welcome Gadan? 00:01:35.298 --> 00:01:50.788 - You guys stuck around the whole weekend, huh? You guys like music or something? Well, oh, the cuckoo 00:01:50.788 --> 00:02:02.750 - She's a pretty bird And she warbles as she flies But she never cried a cuckoo 00:02:04.130 --> 00:02:07.774 - Till the fourth day of July. 00:03:35.650 --> 00:03:38.270 - And I can't burn in Spain 00:04:07.842 --> 00:04:14.398 - And she warbles as she flies, but she never cried a coo coo. 00:04:57.858 --> 00:04:58.942 - Be with you, Bloomington. 00:08:47.202 --> 00:08:52.752 - We play something fast after that amazing last group, huh? Keep the noise going for what you guys just 00:08:52.752 --> 00:08:58.247 - saw. The sacred steel tradition, that's a beautiful thing here in America. So that's pretty cool that 00:08:58.247 --> 00:09:03.635 - we got that. So we figured we'd play something totally different. So we're Gadan. We come from four 00:09:03.635 --> 00:09:09.023 - different countries. So it takes a lot to get here. And it's our last day on tour. So I think we're 00:09:09.023 --> 00:09:13.118 - 13 shows in 14 days. And we're incredibly excited to be here with you guys. 00:09:13.250 --> 00:09:19.318 - Enda comes from, he's not there anymore, but Enda's the Irishman over there, so he comes from Ireland. 00:09:19.318 --> 00:09:25.268 - We got Johan who comes all the way from Norway. I got a bigger round of applause than Ireland today, 00:09:25.268 --> 00:09:31.159 - all right. Johan's the star today, I think, yeah. I live in California, and then Lorenzo and Jacopo 00:09:31.159 --> 00:09:32.926 - here are both from Italy, so. 00:09:34.658 --> 00:09:39.285 - We take old time music and Irish music and Celtic music and bluegrass and we kind of mash it up all 00:09:39.285 --> 00:09:43.912 - together. We're going to do that. We're going to start off with an Irish tune. This is called Frost 00:09:43.912 --> 00:09:47.614 - is All Over. We learned it from the Chieftains, if we have any Chieftains fans. 00:09:55.714 --> 00:10:00.640 - What would you do if the kettle bought over? What would you do only fill it again? And what would you 00:10:00.640 --> 00:10:05.084 - do if the cow ate the clover? What would I do? Said it again. Pratties are dug in the hair. 00:10:05.084 --> 00:10:10.058 - He gets roasted. Kitty lies close to the wall. You to be drunk and I to be sober. Kitty lie over close 00:10:10.058 --> 00:10:10.686 - to the wall. 00:10:27.330 --> 00:10:33.336 - What would I do? Only follow his gun. What would you do if he died on the ocean? What would I do? 00:10:33.336 --> 00:10:39.648 - Marry again. Pratties are dug and the herring is roasted. Kitty lies close to the wall. You'd be drunk 00:10:39.648 --> 00:10:42.590 - and I'd be sober. Kitty lies close to the wall. 00:11:00.194 --> 00:11:07.149 - What would you do if the cow had the clover? What I'd do is said it again. Fridays are dug and the herring 00:11:07.149 --> 00:11:14.430 - is roased. The kitty lies close to the wall. You'd be drunk and I'd be sober. Kitty lie over close to the wall. 00:13:42.178 --> 00:13:49.299 - So, well, Eric Longyear joined the band one year and a half ago. He didn't have a proper background 00:13:49.299 --> 00:13:56.421 - of Irish music, in fact. He was coming from bluegrass all the time and Americana music. But we were 00:13:56.421 --> 00:14:03.755 - really in love with the style on the banjo and his vocals. So we proposed to him something like, okay, 00:14:03.755 --> 00:14:09.310 - we don't mind to join the band, but you have to learn a bunch of Irish songs. 00:14:09.922 --> 00:14:16.524 - And they say, okay, I can do it. It's a fair deal, you know. And he made it. He made it really good. 00:14:16.524 --> 00:14:23.453 - But we got a deal with him. If you're gonna learn this bunch of various songs, we're gonna learn a proper 00:14:23.453 --> 00:14:29.990 - American song. And we made it okay for the music part, I think. The problem are the lyrics. I mean, 00:14:29.990 --> 00:14:35.742 - maybe you notice that you have a strong Italian accent while talking and singing. Okay? 00:14:36.162 --> 00:14:44.175 - And so that's why it's really complicated for me and for the Italian side of the band to learn all the 00:14:44.175 --> 00:14:52.032 - verses. So we just learn one word out of all the verses, all the lyrics, which is the most important 00:14:52.032 --> 00:15:00.122 - word in all the lyrics. And the complicated part for me, apart from the lyrics, is pronouncing the type 00:15:00.122 --> 00:15:03.934 - of song it is. Because it's an on-key-tonk song. 00:15:04.994 --> 00:15:14.195 - A honky tonk song. Okay, we spent the last 10 hours on the drive, on the road. He was workshopping me. 00:15:14.195 --> 00:15:23.128 - He was giving me a workshop, auto-pronounced honky tonk. And I just end up, I shoot something like, 00:15:23.128 --> 00:15:32.239 - use a really baritoneal voice and open my arms. So it's a honky tonk. That's pretty damn good, right? 00:15:32.239 --> 00:15:33.758 - Grazie. Capisci? 00:15:34.338 --> 00:15:42.359 - So next one is a hockey tongs song. And it was written by Hank Williams, guys. Hank Williams. Guys, 00:15:42.359 --> 00:15:44.926 - give a hand for Jakob Oventura. 00:23:33.026 --> 00:23:41.660 - Thank you very much. Thank you. Well, it's great to be here. I actually played Lotus Festival in 2011. 00:23:41.660 --> 00:23:50.211 - It was about two years before Johan was born. Don't let the beard put you off. So we're going to play 00:23:50.211 --> 00:23:58.678 - a tune now that was written by Johan. So Johan is from Italy, but he moved to Norway because he said 00:23:58.678 --> 00:24:00.606 - Italians are too loud. 00:24:02.114 --> 00:24:08.349 - And he's not wrong. So this is a beautiful tune that Johan wrote. It's a polka. There's quite a story 00:24:08.349 --> 00:24:14.646 - to how he came up with the name. I'll give you the abridged version, which is that he went off up into 00:24:14.646 --> 00:24:20.943 - the wilds of Northern Norway for a significant amount of time, built his own sauna, saved a baby seal, 00:24:20.943 --> 00:24:27.239 - wrestled a moose, went from the sauna to the snow to the snow, communed with the Northern lights, came 00:24:27.239 --> 00:24:30.846 - back down and said, I have arrived at a name for my polka. 00:24:32.130 --> 00:24:35.070 - and he called us Johan's Polka. 00:31:43.138 --> 00:31:52.034 - If I can't have the girl I love, I don't want none at all. Shady Grove, my little love. Shady Grove, 00:31:52.034 --> 00:32:00.842 - I say. Shady Grove, my little love, I'm bound to go away. Shady Grove, my little love. Shady Grove, 00:32:00.842 --> 00:32:05.950 - I say. Shady Grove, my little love, I'm bound to go away. 00:33:31.778 --> 00:33:41.530 - could pick like that, right? They say that half of your entire career as a banjo player is spent tuning 00:33:41.530 --> 00:33:51.375 - the banjo. And the other half is spent playing out of tune. We try our best to not do that for you guys. 00:33:51.375 --> 00:34:01.502 - It's really good to be here with you guys. We're going to do an original song of ours. This is on a record. 00:34:02.082 --> 00:34:07.570 - that came out last year, it's called May the Devil Tune Your Banjos. Yeah, I guess we have three banjos, 00:34:07.570 --> 00:34:12.902 - you know? We usually check with the local authorities, make sure it's okay to bring three banjos into 00:34:12.902 --> 00:34:18.338 - the state at the same time, but in the same vehicle, but we got okayed last night in Jasper, so we know 00:34:18.338 --> 00:34:23.617 - it's okay, so. Yeah. Anywho, we've got a little special we're gonna run. Today's the last day of our 00:34:23.617 --> 00:34:29.210 - tour, like I said earlier. Anybody that buys a t-shirt, we're gonna give you a free CD. So, if you already 00:34:29.210 --> 00:34:31.614 - bought a t-shirt, come see us after the show. 00:34:31.714 --> 00:34:42.132 - So that's 25 bucks for free. Because we don't want to ship them back to Italy, is the main story there. 00:34:42.132 --> 00:34:52.550 - So we're going to do a song off that record. This is called We Can Shine. Well, I've got enough to fill 00:34:52.550 --> 00:34:56.958 - the day. I've got enough to fill the night. 00:35:02.082 --> 00:35:16.124 - When we talk you keep me up all night When the days feel like a song When the days are dark and long 00:35:16.124 --> 00:35:25.022 - I'll be there by your side I'll be your love, I'll be your love 00:35:38.594 --> 00:35:58.434 - We can shine When I'm with you I can shine We're all alive Together we can shine Out on the water, far 00:35:58.434 --> 00:36:07.294 - and wide I'll wait on every side Walk with me 00:36:11.042 --> 00:36:15.230 - Without a woman like you, there's a time 00:36:42.434 --> 00:36:43.006 - Sure. 00:37:47.810 --> 00:37:48.350 - there. 00:41:12.738 --> 00:41:19.496 - Thank you very much. That's an original song written by Lorenzo Testa. It's called Rose. This is always 00:41:19.496 --> 00:41:26.254 - a favorite part of the set for me where we get to sit back on the side and we get to watch Ireland duke 00:41:26.254 --> 00:41:32.882 - it out with Norway. You guys want to see that? All right, here we go. You have a really weird kind of 00:41:32.882 --> 00:41:37.950 - dancing here in Indiana that I've noticed. It involves a lot of sitting down. 00:41:43.362 --> 00:41:50.152 - We're going to run a dance competition, because this one gets pretty lively, and actually it's really 00:41:50.152 --> 00:41:56.876 - lively from here on out. So the best dancer and the worst dancer, often the same person, is going to 00:41:56.876 --> 00:42:03.532 - win a t-shirt. So it's a lovely day for a Gadan. This is your big opportunity. You're still sitting 00:42:03.532 --> 00:42:09.790 - down. I don't know what's going on, guys. I'm going to say two t-shirts. Bada bim, bada boom. 00:42:13.378 --> 00:42:18.270 - This is your last chance to dance with an Irish, Italian, American, Norwegian band. 00:49:54.594 --> 00:50:06.840 - in the pink t-shirt. Give it up for Wendy! Come on, pick somebody, Jacopo. I don't know, I was really 00:50:06.840 --> 00:50:20.286 - concentrating on the stomp, so I haven't seen. This girl here in the pink, she was one of our earliest dancers. 00:50:27.138 --> 00:50:34.618 - If you didn't win, you know what to do on the way out, right? So we're going to do a song on three banjos 00:50:34.618 --> 00:50:38.782 - that was written in Scotland to be played on the bagpipes. 00:54:58.434 --> 00:54:59.550 - Thank you. 00:55:52.866 --> 00:56:02.402 - it's all about needing a little bit more love and a little bit more kindness in the world. Can you get 00:56:02.402 --> 00:56:11.938 - behind that? We all need more kindness in this world. We all need more kindness in this world. You may 00:56:11.938 --> 00:56:21.566 - look how you look, but there's nowhere else to go. We all need more kindness in this world. We all need 00:56:22.754 --> 00:56:28.190 - in this world we all need more banjos in this world 00:57:42.466 --> 00:57:47.262 - We all need more kindness in this 01:01:10.786 --> 01:01:30.209 - It was such a good tour. Will you guys do a selfie with us? Thank you so much, Lotus Fest. You guys 01:01:30.209 --> 01:01:32.734 - are awesome.