Newgrass Art-Rock
The Galactic Cowboy Orchestra (GCO) is a unique and powerful musical ensemble that fuses an eclectic mix of original and traditional bluegrass-edged tunes with jazz and world/fusion elements. Their music is Chick Corea meets The Dixie Dregs meets A Prairie Home Companion. The mix ranges from highly accessible bluegrass tunes to extreme arrangements of East Indian ragas. GCO's instrumentation includes guitar, fiddle, bass and drums. The widely versatile instrumentals are accessible to music-lovers of all ages!
They are a brand new band that is already making a name for itself in the national music scene. Two of The Orchestra's pieces were performed on A Prairie Home Companion in November of 2008!
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The Players
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Dan Neale - Guitar -
Dan Neale is one of the Twin Cities' most adored pickers. He has
played with Bo Diddley and Martin Zellar, and is a semi-regular on
Garrison Keillor's "A Prairie Home Companion." He was most recently
seen in the house band (along with Rolling Stone's keyboard player,
Chuck Leavell, Bonnie Raitt's bass player, Hutch Hutchinson and
John Mellencamp's drummer, Kenny Arnoff) in the 50th Anniversary
Buddy Holly Tribute, backing such greats as Graham Nash and Wanda
Jackson.
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Lisi Wright - Fiddle
- At the age of 25, Lisi has begun to make a name for herself in
the Twin Cities' music scene, playing with Martin Zellar until his
retirement and Mick Sterling. Lisi's background spans the genres of
classical, country, bluegrass and rock.
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John Wright - Bass -
John is celebrating his tenth year with the Celtic/American
folk/folk-rock band Lehto & Wright. Wright's background spans
many different musical styles including blues, fusion, pop Latin
and rock.
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Mark O'Day -
Drums/Percussion - Mark is a graduate of the world renowned
Musicians Institute of Technology in Hollywood California. Studied
with Joe Porcaro (Stan Getz, Freddie Hubbard) Ralph Humphrey (Frank
Zappa, Barbra Streisand, Rita Coolidge) and Dave Beyer (Melissa
Etheridge, Joan Osborne, Gregg Allman, Michael McDonald). He has
also been on numerous European tours with Minneapolis blues legend
Willy Murphy. Mark is endorsed by Paiste Cymbals.
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