The Band and The Music

Father and son guitarists John Eurell Sr and John Eurell Jr with Chet Soares on percussion. Based in the Hudson Valley and Connecticut. Original compositions. Acoustic World Fusion and New Age music along the lines of Strunz & Farah and early Acoustic Alchemy. The musical chemistry that exists between the father and son guitarists with the excellent percussion lines of Chet Soares puts their music in a whole new realm.

Achievements:

One of 5 nominees for BEST NEW ARTIST 2005 in the New Age Reporter Lifestyle Music Awards as voted on by public radio show hosts across the country and in Europe, their music is still airing on public radio shows around the country and on XM Satellite radio and Galaxie Radio in Canada.

Their first CD "Journey To Eternity":

Ranked # 23 in the NAR Top 100 Airplay Chart for 2005.

Debuted at #3 and charted in the Top 50 Radio Airplay charts at NAR for 6 straight months.

Nominated for Best Acoustic Instrumental Album for 2005 by radio show hosts across the country.

Hit #6 as recently as JANUARY 2008, on the Amazon.com sales chart in the Indie-New age-Jazz category.

Selected for airplay on NPRs "All Songs Considered - Open Mic" where it received the highest

listener rating among the 8 artists featured.

Featured on XM Satellite's "The Best Music this week on XM" listing.

Ranked in the monthly Top 20 for radio airplay on shows in Japan, Minsk, Bucharest, Australia, and Spain.

Ranked in the monthly Top 20 on public radio shows across the United States over 180 times.

Again hit the TOP 20 spins on the Galaxie Instrumental/NewAge Show in Canada in November of 2006

-- over one year after first ranking in the Top 20 there.

Galaxie is Canada's most widely distributed digital audio network, a commercial division of the CBC.

The first track on the CD entitled "Open Sesame" was voted Number One Best Guitars in

the World Fusion category, all-time on Garageband.com. The track won a total of

24 individual awards there.

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