Hmmmm .... creepy? I've worked with my daughter (Emily Miller) since she was 15 (she's 27 now). Mostly we teach harmony singing and do the odd weekend workshop together as well as sporadic house concerts (Emily, her boyfriend Jesse Milnes and I are in Ottawa on Thursday if anyone is interested). It's tricky sometimes, family dynamics being what they are, but I wouldn't call it creepy. I don't think of her as family so much as a really great singer who is fun to sing with and who has an impeccable sense of harmony. And she and her band (the Sweetback Sisters) do appear to be making waves. She's a good fiddler and guitar player, but I can't say that's down to my making her practice, which I never did. More likely it's because she was drawn to the music and has spent lots of time playing and hanging out with great musicians, and she's heard it all her life. I think the whole family did do a few gigs when we were in Asia as a "family band" but that was more to fulfill a specific need for an organizer. Getting teens (or husbands) to practice for something like that is way too much trouble. But despite the DNA connections in my musical life, I know what you mean. It's difficult to witness the "stage parent" syndrome. I've taught fiddle and some guitar as well as singing, but I don't teach kids unless they are old enough to approach me themselves for lessons, and I keep the parents out of it entirely. But if we discarded the notion of families playing (and performing) together we'd be shutting off a huge part of traditional music ... in my view, of course.
On Oct 5, 1:31 pm, Don Grieser <[email protected]> wrote: > The recent article on the cafe about a family band got me thinking: > Anybody else find the whole family band thing kinda' creepy. All of > them I've seen have through the years always brought out the feeling > that something's not quite right with them--no matter how wholesome > they seem. Maybe it's just me.... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Taterbugmando" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
