Chinese Bluegrass (REDGRASS): Red Chamber 紅庭, Jaybirds

Now available on iTunes! Katy Hill performed by Mei Han's Red Chamber with John Reischman and the Jaybirds. REDGRASS CD: www.asza.com/st... See article: www.penguineggs...
Featuring:
Mei Han - liuqin
John Reischman - mandolin
Trisha Gagnon - bass
Guilian Liu - pipa
Jim Nunally - guitar
Geling Jiang - sanxian
Nick Hornbuckle - banjo
Zhimin Yu - ruan
Red Chamber: www.mei-han.com...
Jaybirds: www.thejaybirds...

[@TommyCoughlinHomespunYarns]

This is the kind of cultural exchange I really like.

[@cartlandroad]

I was taking an ESL class in University of New Hampshire during 1990's. Two Chinese graduate students brought a pipa (lute like the lady in the center is playing) and a flute at the end of semester party. They started play the traditional music that was beautiful and everyone enjoyed. Then our instructor's husband started play bluegrass banjo, I joined with a guitar. These guys kept up with it and improvising solos with no effort. That was one of my greatest memories playing music.

[@meihanzheng]

Thank you for sharing your experience. Lovely.

[@pitchforkpeasant6219]

Awesome 👍😁👍

[@ignasty3591]

This is wild. I've always heard the far east was fascinated with some bluegrass. Being from Kentucky, I think this is pretty cool. Who duh thunk these instruments would compliment eachother so well.

[@Kelnx]

Folk music from Northern China is eerily similar to bluegrass.

[@The_Totes_Adorbs]

@Kelnx my bussy is tight with anticipation.

[@CarolynOsborne]

I'm from Lexington and a fiddler.

[@The_Totes_Adorbs]

@@CarolynOsborne moist. bussy.

[@kishascape]

Anyone who actually listened to the instruments would’ve realized that easily.

[@joeyjojojr.shabadooiiiesq.3736]

Both styles of music are based on the Pentatonic Scale and so natural are very similar and can be played together.

[@PhunkyMunky10]

Music! A language EVERYONE understands!!! This is awesome! Thanks for the smile!

[@chromatic2006]

That is pretty cool. Those Chinese instruments have a very long history. People have been playing those for hundreds of years. it is great to see artists branch out and see where they can take their instruments and musical skills.

[@kishascape]

They also have similar sound to banjos so easily fitting.

[@Bizzybugproductions]

Beautiful, gave me chills

[@tobybiscuits]

All those instruments have a great twang even the Chinese instruments!!

[@TsohAshkii]

15 years ago. I first saw this. How it changed me so. I love being asian and country.

[@shaggybreeks]

I love how the Chinese musicians put their own spin on it, bringing out their own personalities, and the personalities of their instruments. Musically, the whole becomes greater than the sum of its two parts.

[@jjlockridge4237]

Excellent musicianship

[@raylovescm]

Brilliant musicianship! The world could do with more of this interaction.

[@shaggybreeks]

The world is available to you. Take your instrument and travel.

[@justin5021]

This is what world peace sounds like!! What a remarkable sound, an instrumental match made in heaven!

[@adampapke1894]

great job from Memphis TN

[@mollificent]

That made me grin so wide I thought the top of my head was going to fall off.

[@Shrapnel82]

All I need is moonshine baijiu.

[@ngzcaz]

I'm just stunned at their collective musical genius... thumbs up !

[@MrJimc2]

The world does not need the U.N. but only the universal language of peace and tranquility that can be found only in the solace of music. The proof requires only an ear to listen,

[@smokeymcpot69]

Yeah sure the next time someone invades a country well just play them songs..... That'll fix it

[@TheGenesisSpirit]

this was great!!! I grew up w/Bluegrass & to see bluegrass being played on chinese instruments was fantastic!! I loved seeing their expression of how fun this music is while playing their chinese instruments. This was so much fun & I'm so glad to see music that derived from the moonshine mountains being enjoyed in other cultures. I wish you all the best in your music endeavors, 4 u all are no doubt awesomely talented! Thank You for sharing w/us!!

[@Larryk12308]

Wow! Great job everyone! Xexe! All we need now is a violin (fiddle) and an Er Hu!

[@hallowelt2673]

This song goes rolling along like a train, the rithm is beating like a running heart♥️

[@leaheplin]

That was about five different kinds of amazing!

[@grail68]

So awesome. Just so, so awesome.

[@carolynhays6544]

beautiful

[@rogerkilby4303]

Very unique !!! I must say you all are very talented !!! :)

[@LunasCraincloud]

That is very very cool. Sound great too.

[@larryford5905]

Wow , the sounds from those instruments , I love it.

[@menachemsachemrobotscowitz2794]

Whose idea was it, to do this collaboration? Super Music Jesus. That's who.

[@ZaDiscs]

thanks, will have to add that to my bio

[@banjotony]

When I learned the chromatic scale, nothing was mentioned about a "nationality" belonging to any one of the notes. Music easily transcends all the "restrictions and biases" we put upon ourselves if we let it, and here's the living proof. Bravo!!!!

[@cryptrider1]

Would love to see more of this on KZbin!

[@stabelite]

fantastic music. i just saw them live and it was amazing.

[@nickihill1863]

top 10 coolest music ive ever listened too thinks youtube

[@johnkarnaghon6055]

Incredible, I've never heard anything like it

[@cjredu]

Very interesting music that makes me remember the Chieftains. The pipa and other chinese instruments, however, keep it distinctly different from them. Lovely!

[@Jeffrey-or7iw]

That was double awesome 😎 please do more 🙏

[@alan4sure]

Those are some amazing musicians with the strange looking instruments. Such talent.

[@MargyAnne1]

From Canada... absolutely great!!!! I play the fiddle and guitar and love bluegrass but this is amongst the most original and best I've seen!!! Great work!!!!

[@Klobilob]

This was absolutely amazing.. and the tuch of asian classic music made it wonderful to lissen to. Applause from Sweden !

[@TheBrightWindows]

Wow, this is awesome, this music is so... spunky.

[@davidsawyer988]

Tight! 💕

[@booksgodt]

Makes me proud that I am surrounded by such wonderful musicians. Just across the pond.

[@DragonWaveMaster]

Great video, I really liked the music too.

[@ShowCat1]

Fantastic!

[@FlatMountainDulcimer]

Just goes to show ya. Music is universal. Hey, this is great! Thanks for posting. Dave

[@tdbsnr]

Ha ha, this is brilliant, great music with a big sense of humour. Thank you for the posting, more please.

[@ConstantineHuman]

Music that is at once colloquial and universal.

[@GustavArnold]

West Meets East. Wunderful. And hopefully they will also play chinese tunes.

[@EliasPoint]

This is awesome

[@olmmbill]

This is a beautiful blend of instruments and cultures. I loved it. Thanks for posting.

[@sirmorluk]

Wonderful gift to mankind. Thank you Bill Monroe. And seriously? 7 people didn't like this? How is it possible?

[@bushwacker3292]

Very Good job all !

[@MyBadplayer]

what a wonderful blend of cultures!!!!thank you for allowing all of us to enjoy.

[@theonlybuzz1969]

Brilliant playing by all in the group, wonderful stuff, I certainly didn’t expect this but glad I did!! Thank you everyone!

[@lisa-mariegray5510]

Fabulous fusion!

[@landielover]

I can't believe 25 people dislike this.

[@SoulEngine0811]

25 people are haters

[@mogsy1000]

Grassholes

[@alan4sure]

Russian hackers. No life.

[@SXian719]

much love!!!

[@sillystrings]

This is so so so awesome. It's always cool to see how the "boundaries" of art are pushed. AWESOME!!!

[@dbadagna]

Lovely performance and great idea. The combination of Chinese music with bluegrass seems really to be catching on. Chinese music sounds great in combination with Irish music as well; if you can find the video or CD "The Chieftains in China," it works so well, there are so many similarities between the traditions (not least of which is that the most common keys for both are D major and G major).

[@trevorburgess2695]

Excellent

[@AG-yj1jv]

Brilliant!!❤❤❤❤👍👍👍👍

[@WorldBluegrassDay]

Such a great sound. Would love to get them supporting World Bluegrass Day. Please reach out so we can talk...

[@Raoena]

You're both right. All these stringed instruments have common tonal and acoustic qualities, because of their common structures (plucked or bowed strings stretched across a hollow resonant body.) It is an example of cultural/instrumental/musical convergence (coming together).

[@dutchharrysm8]

Amazing stuff.

[@Thrawn6211]

Only 12 notes. Out of those 12 we get so much joy, interculturality, humanity, expression. Because music crosses all boundaries of nations, all languages, and brings us together as humankind.

[@jimmytouzel]

this is awesome. it goes to show that both of our (chinese and american) ethnic roots music have common threads!

[@cadjunk]

Fantastic. I loved it. Some instruments I've never seen. It was wonderful. Thanks for sharing. Gwen

[@sandymoonstone855]

你好。 我爱琵琶和二胡。 太好了。 谢谢

[@sandymoonstone855]

. 🎸 🎵

[@plucknpick]

Awesome!

[@JCHaywire]

They're shredding. It's fun to hear them play the melody through different scalar sensibilities. They don't naturally go to many blue tones, and you don't hear the usually jazzy inflections a bluegrass outfit would put in the second breaks of all these players. This kind of cultural exchange is GREAT! Now, did he play one of THEIR tunes?

[@Neuumann]

Absolutely BRILLIANT!! BRAVO!!

[@dougsather2939]

Very nice, they sound great 😇🙏

[@dorjeetseringus]

Very nice and happy music, My music Dran-yean if with your all music its more like. Thank you and good luck for concert,

[@MattScutchfield]

Cool! I like Chinese music and bluegrass!

[@Mandotwang]

Nice to see the culture blend! Excellent!

[@TheLukeStein]

This is so beautiful. Music merging in meiguo.

[@pursehappygal]

I am doing an event where this group is performing, and this is the first time I have ever heard them. This was fantastic! thank you for sharing!

[@dfermoy684]

Probably the most timely video of them all! Thank you for this

[@triciacombs5664]

Lovely! This Kentucky girl is very impressed!😎👍

[@critchley3819]

This is really great music,

[@matuka66]

How fun was that!!!

[@melodykentucky]

Utterly fantastic!!!

[@motorhed80]

Simply Fantastic!

[@aliwhitwell]

Superbly original bluegrass! Thanks for sharing.

[@TMGLost]

Seeing/hearing stuff like this makes me so happy I could cry.

[@whomagoose6897]

East meets west and I love it!

[@bradleydad]

We really are one world! (This reminds me of nights years ago in North Africa finding a connection with people I knew nothing about by playing a little strange music. Who care who's side you're on! This is music! Death can wait.)

[@josefgiven]

Awesome fusion!

[@booksgodt]

A shave and a hair cut it is! Well done people!

[@gimmedatstick]

Excellent!!!!! Too cool for words!

[@340wbymag]

Wonderful! I love it!!!

[@discodave4856]

what's odder than seeing it is the fact that it works so well.

[@Teatalktea]

Great tunes !!! love it !!

[@tenorbanjo4]

Wonderful mix !

[@joelsills819]

If anyone knows their is other videos of these very talented folks please let me know. I would Definitely like to see them live if possible.

[@brucetoo3294]

SO true--come to every fiddle festival possible (fiddle festivals are the non-passive versions of bluegrass festivals--the audience are the musicians. everybody jams and plays.

[@TheSkyway0]

i love it

[@gakkijiten]

Wonderful. 素晴らしい。 出色

[@PalaKalola]

This is one to share! Very interesting!

[@Blogengezer]

Mandolin even has a 'Fat' sound in comparison to the Red C's most active three pickers. Only the far right instrument had it, but not enough heard of it until the last few bars. Great rythym together and no shortage of spirit and enthusiam.... Really cheery stuff. Great post :>)

[@willywonka225]

Hooray for RedGrass! 红草音乐很好听！ Thanks for postin!