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Harmonious Wail, with special guest Andrea Carlson at Burlap and Bean
Courtesy of David Yager | Posted on November 20, 2015
Where
Burlap and Bean
204 South Newtown Street Road
Newtown Square, PA
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When
Fri, November 20, 2015
8:00 pm
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Musicians
Harmonious Wail
band / ensemble / orchestraSims Delaney-Potthoff
mandolinJeff Weiss
bass, acousticAndrea Carlson
vocalsDavid Bopdrummer
drumsAbout
An evening with Harmonious Wail.
To listen to samples, visit www.wail.com
Sims Delaney-Potthoff, Harmonious Wail’s founder, leader and mandolinist , credits Jethro Burns with the band’s unique, enticing style of mandolin-driven gypsy-jazz. Sims studied for seven years with Burns, the legendary jazz mandolinist, laying the foundation for Harmonious Wail’s acoustic string sound. He furthered his studies with Matt Glaser at Boston’s Berklee College of Music, honing his skills while immersing himself in the “gypsy” music of Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli (Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Bireli Lagrene, Duane Allman, David Grisman, and Louis Armstrong are also on his list of musical heroes). Sims also plays a 1937 Gibson Tenor Guitar (tuned as an octave mandolin), sings, writes and arranges for the Wail. He founded the group in 1987....