It’s a group of old friends who happen to be some of the greatest musicians around, not myself, but the others. We’re feeling incredibly fortunate to be out here - a bunch of musical friends who haven’t all hit the road together in 20 years. “We each have our own pods on the tour bus, and we’re all testing regularly, doing our best to keep everybody safe and neither get or spread the virus. “So far, it’s been masks and vaccinated audiences,” the banjo icon said, speaking from a recent tour stop in Minneapolis. With the COVID-19 pandemic still surging, they are taking no chances on what - remarkably - is Fleck’s first bluegrass tour in 24 years. The current leg of the tour also features four other instrumental wizards: mandolinist Sam Bush dobro player Jerry Douglas guitarist Bryan Sutton and former San Diego violinist Stuart Duncan. Meyer is back on board for Fleck’s “My Bluegrass Heart” concert trek. I thought to myself: ‘I’ve never heard that in bluegrass.’ “It’s got three phrases that all land on the down beat. “The rhythmic approach in ‘Vertigo’ is one of the first things you learn if you hang with Indian musicians,” Fleck explained. Other artists he has worked with range from Dolly Parton, the Nashville Symphony and the Dave Matthews Band to Malian kora innovator Toumani Diabaté and Indian percussion master Zakir Hussain. His collaborators have included jazz piano greats Chick Corea and McCoy Tyner, funk bass king Bootsy Collins, Grateful Dead co-founder Jerry Garcia and classical violin mainstay Joshua Bell. Hearing him enthusiastically describe “Vertigo’s” serpentine framework underscores a few key components of Fleck’s exceptionally far-ranging career. Music really does have healing powers!”Īs knotty in melodic and rhythmic construction as its title suggests, “Vertigo” kicks off Fleck’s first bluegrass album in 20 years.
By the end of the concert, I didn’t have it anymore. According to Harry’s Bar history, bartender Fernand Petiot invented the drink and the recipe was first published in a book called “Harry’s ABC of Cocktails” in 1921.īartender Dante Agnelli demonstrated the technique for making the drink, ingredient by ingredient: Salt and pepper, Tabasco sauce, Worcestershire sauce, lemon juice, and vodka, tomato juice.“I had vertigo all the way up to when I went on stage and started to play.
Scott Fitzgerald.įranz-Arthur MacElhone, great-grandson of bar founder Harry MacElhone, recounted different legends around the reason for the drink’s name. The bar is carefully checking COVID-19 health passes as visitors from Australia, Egypt and beyond gather to sample the famed drink at Harry’s, whose patrons over the past century have included writers Ernest Hemingway and F. The centenary events this week bring a welcome respite from winter gloom and spreading worries about the omicron coronavirus variant. PARIS (AP) - Harry’s Bar in Paris is celebrating the 100th birthday of the Bloody Mary, the vodka-tomato juice cocktail believed to have been invented in the iconic watering hole in 1921. The centenary events this week come as a welcome respite from winter gloom and spreading worries about the omicron virus variant. Harry's Bar in Paris is celebrating the 100th birthday of the Bloody Mary, the vodka-tomato juice cocktail believed to have been invented in the iconic bar in 1921.
Bartender Antoine serves a client at Harry's Bar in Paris, Friday, Dec.Bartender Antoine prepares a Bloody Mary cocktail at Harry's Bar in Paris, Friday, Dec.
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