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Sleepy Man Banjo Boys - Bluegrass musicians
The Sleepy Man Banjo Boys is made up of 11-year-old banjo sensation Jonny Mizzone and his brothers Robbie, 14, on fiddle, and Tommy, 15, on guitar.

Why you should listen

These days your kid can get famous on YouTube for having water sprayed at him, for being duped about his Halloween candy, and for being high off laughing gas. But what if your 8-year-old gets famous on the Internet for being an absolute genius on the banjo? So goes the story of Jonny Mizzone, who first became a YouTube sensation in early 2011 for videos of him and his brothers tearing it up playing Earl Scruggs's Flint Hill Special. It wasn't long before the press started calling.

Now Jonny, Robbie (fiddle) and Tommy (guitar), known as the Sleepy Man Banjo Boys, are 11, 14 and 15 respectively. In 2011 alone they got calls from The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and in the summer of 2011 they appeared as musical guests on The Late Show with David Letterman and NBC’s Today Show.

While the trio grew up in New Jersey -- which is known more for rock music than for bluegrass -- they fell in love with the unique sounds of J.D. Crowe, Ralph Stanley, Clarence White and Earl Scruggs after some creative YouTube searching. Now, having become sensations on the platform themselves, the trio has accumulated more than 17 million video views. Their first album, America’s Music, was released in September 2011 and charted top eight on the Billboard Bluegrass Album Chart. In October 2012 they released their second album, The Farthest Horizon, which cracked the top three. The group is already at work on their next album.

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Sleepy Man Banjo Boys: Bluegrass virtuosity from ... New Jersey?

Sleepy Man Banjo Boys: Polifoninės kantri muzikos virtuozai iš... Naujojo Džersio?

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Jaunesni nei 16 metų, broliai Jonny, Robbie ir Tommy Mizzone iš Naujojo Džersio, JAV valstijos, geriau žinomos dėl roko atlikėjo Bruce Springsteen nei dėl polifoninės kantri muzikos atlikėjo Earl Scruggs. Tačiau broliai pradėjo atlikinėti polifoninės kantri muzikos koverius bei savo kuriamas kompozicijas būdami dar labai jauni. Čia jie atlieka tris nuostabias dainas, kurios yra skirtingose tonacijose, atliekamos smuiku, bandža ir gitara.
- Bluegrass musicians
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RobbieRobbie MizzoneMizzone: Thank you.
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Robbie Mizzone: Ačiū.
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TommyTommy MizzoneMizzone: Thank you very much.
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Tommy Mizzone: Labai Jums ačiū.
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We're so excitedsusijaudinęs to be here.
It's suchtoks an honorgarbė for us.
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Mes esame labai sujaudinti, būdami čia. Mums tai didelė garbė.
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Like he said, we're
threetrys brothersbroliai from NewNaujas JerseyDžersis --
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Kaip jis sakė, mes esame trys broliai iš Naujojo Džersio --
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you know, the bluegrassmiglės
capitalkapitalas of the worldpasaulis.
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žinote, polifoninės kantri muzikos pasaulinė sostinė.
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(LaughterJuokas)
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We discoveredatrado bluegrassmiglės a fewnedaug yearsmetai agoprieš,
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Mes atradome polifoninę kantri muziką prieš keletą metų
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and we fellnukrito in love with it.
We hopetikiuosi you guys will too.
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ir ją pamilome. Tikimės, kad Jūs taip pat ją pamilsite.
Ši mūsų sukurta daina vadinasi „Laiko šuolis“,
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we wroteparašė calledvadinamas "TimelapseTimelapse,"
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and it will probablytikriausiai livegyventi up to its namevardas.
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ir ji tikriausiai verta savo pavadinimo.
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TMTM: Thank you very much.
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TM: Labai Jums ačiū.
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RMRM: I'm just going to take
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RM: Užtruksiu tik sekundę pristatydamas grupę.
Gitara groja mano 15-metis brolis Tommy.
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On guitargitara is my 15-year-old-Metų senumo brotherbrolis TommyTommy.
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On banjobanjo is 10-year-old-Metų senumo JonnyJonny.
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Bandža - 10-metis Jonny.
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(ApplausePlojimai) He's alsotaip pat our brotherbrolis.
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(Plojimai) Jis taip pat mūsų brolis.
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And I'm RobbieRobbie, and I'm 14,
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Ir aš Robbie, man 14-a, groju smuiku.
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As you can see, we decidednusprendė
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tad pasirinkome groti tris dainas,
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and we chosepasirinkote to playGroti threetrys songsdainos
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kurios yra trijose skirtingose tonacijose.
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in threetrys differentskiriasi keysraktai.
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Yeah. I'm alsotaip pat going to explainpaaiškinti,
a lot of people want to know
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Taip pat paaiškinsiu tai, kas domina daugelį žmonių,
kaip mes gavome pavadinimą „Miegančio žmogaus bandžos berniukai“.
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where we got the namevardas
SleepyMieguistas Man BanjoPirtis BoysBerniukai from.
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So it startedprasidėjo when JonnyJonny was little,
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Viskas prasidėjo, kai Jonny buvo mažas
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and he first startedprasidėjo the banjobanjo,
he would playGroti on his back
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ir pirmąkart pradėjo groti bandža, jis galėjo groti ją užsidėjęs ant nugaros,
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with his eyesakys closeduždaryta,
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užmerktomis akimis,
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and we'dmes norime say it lookedatrodė
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o mes sakydavome, kad jis atrodė miegantis.
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So you can probablytikriausiai piecegabalas
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Tad visa kita turbūt galite numatyti.
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TMTM: We can't really figurefigūra
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Galbūt tai dėl to, kad ji svėrė apie milijoną svarų.
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TMTM: Thank you very much.
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TM: Labai Jums ačiū.
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RMRM: Thank you.
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RM: Ačiū.
Translated by Viktorija Cybaite
Reviewed by Petras Jurkuvenas

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Sleepy Man Banjo Boys - Bluegrass musicians
The Sleepy Man Banjo Boys is made up of 11-year-old banjo sensation Jonny Mizzone and his brothers Robbie, 14, on fiddle, and Tommy, 15, on guitar.

Why you should listen

These days your kid can get famous on YouTube for having water sprayed at him, for being duped about his Halloween candy, and for being high off laughing gas. But what if your 8-year-old gets famous on the Internet for being an absolute genius on the banjo? So goes the story of Jonny Mizzone, who first became a YouTube sensation in early 2011 for videos of him and his brothers tearing it up playing Earl Scruggs's Flint Hill Special. It wasn't long before the press started calling.

Now Jonny, Robbie (fiddle) and Tommy (guitar), known as the Sleepy Man Banjo Boys, are 11, 14 and 15 respectively. In 2011 alone they got calls from The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and in the summer of 2011 they appeared as musical guests on The Late Show with David Letterman and NBC’s Today Show.

While the trio grew up in New Jersey -- which is known more for rock music than for bluegrass -- they fell in love with the unique sounds of J.D. Crowe, Ralph Stanley, Clarence White and Earl Scruggs after some creative YouTube searching. Now, having become sensations on the platform themselves, the trio has accumulated more than 17 million video views. Their first album, America’s Music, was released in September 2011 and charted top eight on the Billboard Bluegrass Album Chart. In October 2012 they released their second album, The Farthest Horizon, which cracked the top three. The group is already at work on their next album.

More profile about the speaker
Sleepy Man Banjo Boys | Speaker | TED.com