Bluegrass virtuosity from ... New Jersey? | Sleepy Man Banjo Boys | TED
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Robbie Mizzone: Thank you.
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Tommy Mizzone: Thank you very much.
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We're so excited to be here.
It's such an honor.
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Like he said, we're
three brothers from New Jersey --
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you know, the bluegrass
capital of the world.
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(Laughter)
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We discovered bluegrass a few years ago,
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and we fell in love with it.
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We hope you guys will too.
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This next song is an original
we wrote called "Time Lapse,"
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and it will probably live up to its name.
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TM: Thank you very much.
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RM: I'm just going to take
a second to introduce the band.
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On guitar is my 15-year-old brother Tommy.
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On banjo is 10-year-old Jonny.
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He's also our brother.
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And I'm Robbie, and I'm 14,
and I play the fiddle.
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As you can see, we decided
to make it hard on ourselves,
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and we chose to play three songs
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in three different keys.
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Yeah. I'm also going to explain,
a lot of people want to know
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where we got the name
"Sleepy Man Banjo Boys" from.
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So, it started when Jonny was little,
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and he first started the banjo,
he would play on his back
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with his eyes closed,
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and we'd say it looked
like he was sleeping.
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So you can probably piece
the rest together.
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TM: We can't really figure out the reason.
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It might have been
that it weighs about a million pounds.
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TM: Thank you very much.
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RM: Thank you.
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