This song honors Shannon Shaw’s fiancé, Joe Haener, who passed away in a terrible car accident at his family’s farm in Aurora, OR on August of 2022, just weeks before their wedding. / Click the Link above, left to read about this release.
Béla Fleck expands and explores George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue by paying homage to the legendary composer for its centennial. Released February 12, a hundred years to the day Gershwin premiered the work at Aeolian Hall in New York City, the album has three variations: “Rhapsody in Blue(grass),” “Rhapsody in Blue(s),” and the classic orchestration, but with banjo featured instead of piano, performed by the Virginia Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Eric Jacobson. The set also features Gershwin’s “Rialto Ripples” and “Unidentified Piece for Banjo,” an unrecorded and unreleased piece discovered at the Library of Congress.
On June 7, 2019, 16-year old Emma Stevens performed the song live at CBU (a Canadian radio station, which broadcasts the programming of the CBC Music network in Vancouver, British Columbia) . Paul McCartney gave Emma a shout out at his concert in Vancouver, BC, Canada on July 6th, 2019 - he said "it was beautiful".
He was briefly in the group Lone Justice (1985 - 1986) and was also a member of X from 1986 to 1995. where he replaced Billy Zoom. Also, the son of songwriter/ folk musician Terry Gilkyson.
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