Bluegrass artist Nefresh Mountain just released their new album "Beneath The Open Sky" and they will be in St. Louis participating in an artist residency from Wednesday, May 2nd to Sunday, May 6th at United Hebrew Congregation. The full list of events can be viewed HERE. For additional show details you can also view that HERE. Continue on below to visit the artist online and to check out their music. Follow on for details on the residency and for the latest on this artist.
- Nefresh Mountain: (Montclair, NJ.)
Genre: Bluegrass
https://www.nefreshmountain.com
https://www.facebook.com/nefeshmountain
Google Nefesh Mountain: https://g.co/kgs/3g8vLq
May 2-6, 2018
Wednesday, May 2
9:00 a.m. – 2:00p.m. Adult University
Nefesh Mountain will be the featured artists. More information about Adult University coming soon.
Thursday, May 3
Residency in the Saul Spielberg Early Childhood Center
6:00 p.m. Music Circle & Jam
Friday, May 4
Residency in the Saul Spielberg Early Childhood Center concluding with Shabbat at 11:30 a.m.
6:30 p.m. Shabbat Service
Saturday, May 5
5:00 p.m. Annual Event
Sunday, May 6
11:30 a.m. Family Concert
Check out UH’s Nefesh Mountain page for videos from previous programs at UH and their music at www.nefeshmountain.com
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NEFESH MOUNTAIN RELEASES "BENEATH THE OPEN SKY"
with special guests Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, Tony Trischka and David Grier
"This is one of the finest, wholly bluegrass records one will hear in not only 2018 but as a touchstone moving forward." NO DEPRESSION - March 2, 2018
“The question is not, how do we get diversity into bluegrass, but how do we get diversity back into bluegrass?” asked Rhiannon Giddons during her keynote at the 2017 IBMA conference. The answer is Nefesh Mountain. Yes, Beneath The Open Sky is a bluegrass album. Yes, some of its lyrics are sung in Hebrew. No, it isn’t a gimmick or a parody. And, no, it’s not klezmer music.
That being said, let’s hear Beneath The Open Sky for what it really is: a soulful, euphoric, folk-flavored outpouring of hope and joy, propelled by the kind of crisp, crystalline picking that gives lyrics wings. It’s a distinctively Nefesh Mountain sound.
Recently, the husband and wife duo of Doni Zasloff and Eric Lindberg, released Beneath The Open Sky, their second full length album and follow up to their critically-acclaimed self-titled debut Nefesh Mountain. The recording was very much a hands-on undertaking for the couple, writing or arranging all 11 songs, as well as co-producing the entire project from start to finish. They recorded it with the instrumental backing of Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, Tony Trischka and David Grier, aided by Nefesh Mountain’s touring band members, Alan Grubner on fiddle and Tim Kiah on bass. A dazzling picker in his own right, Lindberg provides lead guitar and banjo throughout, while Zasloff soars with some of the most melodic, incisive and soul-stirring vocals we’ve heard since Mary Travers first took the spotlight.
* Watch "Beneath The Open Sky" *
* Watch "Bound For The Promised Land" *
Using original material, along with four tracks drawing from the folk and old time traditions, Lindberg and Zasloff ingeniously create a beautiful arc throughout Beneath The Open Sky which defines their own genre and world as they see it. Their message is clear from the album's opening track and rousing call for universal equality “Bound For The Promised Land," to the closing of their haunting rendition of Irving Berlin’s “Russian Lullaby." Throughout these songs, you can hear the foundational similarities between bluegrass and Jewish traditions, notably the lure of “home,” the love of nature and the comforts of a like-minded community. Jerusalem Ridge, Rocky Top, Flint Hill and Nefesh Mountain are clearly parts of the same eternal chain.
Both native New Yorkers, Lindberg and Zasloff have long and strong ties to bluegrass. “I grew up in Brooklyn,” says Lindberg, “but my dad’s side of the family, which was not Jewish—he converted when he married my mother—lived in rural Georgia. I would go down and hang out with my uncles, who were great guitar players. We’d hike the Appalachian Trail and listen to old-time music. Something in my soul always responded to this deep, ancient, and undeniable feeling that I had from being down South in this heartland of America.”
“We want to have a chance to share our story with everybody,” Zasloff adds. “There is this word ‘Americana’ that we all know well and is used a lot these days, bridging the gaps somewhere between Old-Time, Bluegrass, Folk, Blues and Jazz which all have deep roots in this country. For me, the beauty of all of these forms of music is that at their core they are about people, they are about this amazing world, and they are about life. That is where we are coming from with Nefesh Mountain; somewhere in the long chain of music and ideology that gives us the opportunity to open people’s minds and hearts to our culture and heritage. We’re all in the same boat here. We’re all trying to figure it out.”
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