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The Womack Family Band
The Womack Family Band is an Americana music quartet from Norwalk, Ohio. The group consists of Haley Heyman (guitar, mandolin, keyboards, vocals), Noah Heyman (guitar, mandolin, bass guitar, banjo, vocals), Tony Schaffer (piano, guitar, bass guitar, alto saxophone, trumpet, clarinet, vocals), and Cory Webb (drums).Aaron Freeder, Adam Wagner, Ivan Sheehan; Ohio Authority (Cleveland, Ohio) August 8, 201/ref> The band's unique and varied sound is attributed to the group's three distinct songwriters, which allows a new lyrical perspective with each song. Formation and band name The members of The Womack Family Band gradually came together around multi-instrumentalist Tony Schaffer, who had been performing with Americana Singer-Songwriter and fellow Ohioan Chris Castle. Schaffer and Noah Heyman started performing together as an acoustic duo in 2008, adding vocalist Haley Heyman to the line-up within six months. That same year, the trio became the featured weekly act at the Office Bar i ...
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Norwalk, Ohio
Norwalk is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Huron County, Ohio, Huron County. The population was 17,012 at the United States Census 2010, 2010 census. The city is the center of the Norwalk, OH μSA, Norwalk Micropolitan Statistical Area and part of the Greater Cleveland, Cleveland-Akron-Canton Combined Statistical Area. Norwalk is located approximately south of Lake Erie, west/southwest of Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland, southeast of Toledo, Ohio, Toledo, and west/northwest of Akron, Ohio, Akron. History On July 11, 1779, Norwalk, Connecticut, was burned by the United Kingdom, British Loyalist (American Revolution), Tories under Lieutenant-general (United Kingdom), Lieutenant General William Tryon, Tryon. A committee of the General Assembly estimated the losses to the inhabitants at $116,238.66. Later, the federal government gave an area in the Western Reserve of Ohio as compensation for those established losses. On May 30, 1800, the United States ceded th ...
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Americana Music
Americana (also known as American roots music) is an amalgam of American music formed by the confluence of the shared and varied traditions that make up the musical ethos of the United States, specifically those sounds that are emerged from the Southern United States such as folk, gospel, blues, country, jazz, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, bluegrass, and other external influences. Americana, as defined by the Americana Music Association (AMA), is "contemporary music that incorporates elements of various American roots music styles, including country, roots-rock, folk, bluegrass, R&B and blues, resulting in a distinctive roots-oriented sound that lives in a world apart from the pure forms of the genres upon which it may draw. While acoustic instruments are often present and vital, Americana also often uses a full electric band." Americana as a radio format had its origins in 1984 on KCSN in Northridge, California. Mark Humphrey, a contributor to country/folk ''Frets'' magazine ...
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Folk Rock
Folk rock is a hybrid music genre that combines the elements of folk and rock music, which arose in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom in the mid-1960s. In the U.S., folk rock emerged from the folk music revival. Performers such as Bob Dylan and the Byrds—several of whose members had earlier played in folk ensembles—attempted to blend the sounds of rock with their pre-existing folk repertoire, adopting the use of electric instrumentation and drums in a way previously discouraged in the U.S. folk community. The term "folk rock" was initially used in the U.S. music press in June 1965 to describe the Byrds' music. The commercial success of the Byrds' cover version of Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man" and their debut album of the same name, along with Dylan's own recordings with rock instrumentation—on the albums ''Bringing It All Back Home'' (1965), ''Highway 61 Revisited'' (1965), and '' Blonde on Blonde'' (1966)—encouraged other folk acts, such as Simon & Ga ...
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Chris Castle
Chris Castle (born January 29, 1976) is an American Folk music, folk/Americana (music), Americana singer-songwriter, community activist and politician. Early life Castle was born in Sandusky, Ohio, and his family moved to New London, Ohio, New London around the time he was four. His parents had migrated to Ohio from eastern Kentucky in the late sixties, and Castle was exposed to Appalachian Music from a very early age. His father (a Vietnam War veteran) committed suicide when Castle was nine years old; a theme that would later inspire Castle's first official single and video, ''Both Ends of A Gun''. Early career Castle spent his teen years as a staff-writer in Nashville, Tennessee, working under such notable writers as Casey Kelly, Wood Newton, and Earl Bud Lee. At twenty-one, he would leave Music Row to again perform in bars and coffeehouses in northern Ohio. Castle enrolled in Bowling Green State University as a Political Science major, where he met Pulitzer Prize winner Edw ...
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Tommy Womack
Tommy Womack (born November 20, 1962 in Sturgis, Kentucky) is an American singer-songwriter and author. Career Early endeavors Womack played with the band Government Cheese from 1985 to 1992. He wrote an engaging memoir about this experience called ''Cheese Chronicles: The True Story of a Rock 'n Roll Band You Never Heard Of''. It was originally published in 1995 and its reputation grew enough to warrant multiple printings. ''Nashville Scene'' said, "his hilariously honest memoirs...have become a cult favorite among musicians both famous and unknown.". Womack later joined the Bis-quits, which released one album on Oh Boy Records in 1993. In the mid-1990s, Womack began writing songs with Jason Ringenberg of Jason & the Scorchers, a band that Womack had idolized. Looking back in 2012, Ringenberg said that he'd originally viewed Womack as a pest, but he gained respect after reading ''The Cheese Chronicles''. They co-wrote three of the first four songs on the Scorchers' 1996 album ...
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Folk Alley
WKSU (89.7 FM) is a non-commercial educational radio station licensed to serve Kent, Ohio, featuring a public radio format. Owned by Kent State University and operated by Ideastream Public Media, WKSU's primary signal encompasses the Akron metro area, Greater Cleveland and much of Northeast Ohio as the regional affiliate for National Public Radio (NPR), American Public Media, Public Radio Exchange and the BBC World Service. The station's reach is extended into the Canton, Mansfield, Lorain, Ashtabula, Sandusky, New Philadelphia and Wooster areas via a network of five full-power repeaters and two low-power translators. Founded by Kent State University, the station had its origins as a radio training workshop on the university's campus that provided programming for commercial radio stations, and save for a brief hiatus due to World War II, continued into WKSU's 1950 establishment as one of the first educational FM stations in the United States. An NPR affiliate since 197 ...
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Americana Music Groups
Americana may refer to: *Americana (music), a genre or style of American music *Americana (culture), artifacts of the culture of the United States Film, radio and television * ''Americana'' (1992 TV series), a documentary series presented by Jonathan Ross *''Americana'', a 2012 American drama series written by Michael Seitzman * ''Americana'' (film), released in 1983 starring David Carradine * ''Americana'' (game show), a quiz show that aired on NBC from 1947 to 1949 * ''Americana'' (radio series), a series on BBC Radio 4, reporting current affairs from the US Literature * ''Americana'' (book), a 2004 non-fiction book by Hampton Sides * ''Americana'' (novel), a 1971 novel by Don DeLillo *''Americanah'', a 2013 novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie *''Encyclopedia Americana'' Music Albums *''Americana'', a 1999 album by jazz trumpeter Arturo Sandoval * ''Americana'' (Diesel album), 2016 * ''Americana'' (Michael Martin Murphey album) * ''Americana'' (Neil Young & Crazy Horse album), ...
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American Musical Quartets
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * ...
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People From Norwalk, Ohio
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of per ...
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