location:
Asheville, North Carolina
last login:
November 20, 2009
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about Will Cumberland:
Will is currently working with the English Psychedelic, Electronic and Folk communities of the UK to bring the music of Great Briton back home to the Carolinas. In turn, he hopes to export some Asheville music back overseas.
A driving force behind the very media of JukeboxAlive.com, Will's achievements in Asheville's technology and music sectors are well known.
http://www.mountainx.com/news/2005/0105jukeboxalive.php
As Carolinian as Gaelic Ale, the Duke Blue Devils and the Marshal Tucker Band, Will Cumberland has been a continuous trend setter in the South Eastern entertainment community. Born in North Carolina and raised in the Olde English District of York, his work strikes deep at the soul of what makes our area music and entertainment scene stand out. He has worked at CMT (Country Music Television), with Randi Travis, Colonel Bruce Hampton, Bootsy Collins, Drive By Truckers, Snake Oil Medicine Show, Larry Keel, the Biscuit Burners and many, many others. His background includes multimedia communications, international media and internet technologies.
He has been a contributing writer to Relix Magazine Online, The Emissary, J ambase.Com, JukeboxAlive.Com, YC Magazine, Bluegrass Jam, Mountain Xpress, New Life Journal, Freakin Asheville, Ya'll Magazine, PGN News and has been interviewed by CNN and the international AP Presswire.
Stay tuned.
artist info:
band members:
George Pond, The Feral Chihuahuas
influences:
mountain music. Folk, Funk, Rock, Show of Hands, Ashley Hutchings, Ian Cutler, Steve Knightley, Valorie Miller, Woody Wood, Phil Beer, Seth Lakeman, English Folk, Celtic Folk, Traditional Sea Folk, Pantaleimon (my friend Andria Degen's project), Telling the Bees, Espers, Tom Palmer, Woven Wheat, the John Barleycorn Project - Dark Brittania, The Story, John Tams, Barron Brady, Dahm the Bard, Hayley Hutchinson, Ella Edmondson, John Barleycorn Reborn, Isambarde, ELOWEN, Jackie Oates, Witman's Wood, Kate Rusby, Sarah Curtis of Glastonbury, Sharron Kraus, Horses of the Gods, The Flozzies, Daisy Windsor, Anne Briggs, Pamela Wyn Shannon and the Bard of Ely, Van Morrison, Emma Harper - because she is going to save the world and doesn't know it yet, Rusted Root, pre-Bob Weirdo Grateful Dead w/ Jerry, Sam Grisman, Fairport Convention, Afro-Celt Sound System, Clannad, Fleetwood Mac, R Carlos Nakai, Ravi Shankar, Valorie Miller, Duran Duran, Dead Can Dance, Deltron 3030, Ray LaMontagne
sounds similar to:
Saul Williams, Shel Silverstein, Jethro Clampett
external links:
www.myspace.com/willcumberland
booking info:
agency / manager:
Scenic Isle Productions c/o Logdove Saints International
Scenic Isle Productions
Logdove Saints International
2000 Riverside Dr # 4
Asheville, NC 28804
Asheville/Negril/Boulder, North Carolina/Jamaica/Colorado US
promotion and publicity
Agent: Maisey - shhh ... just don't tell her!
fee range:
125
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450
travel requirements:
Contact
technical requirements:
Fun, I need fun. Loads of it.