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
TED2013

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

સ્લીપી મેન બાન્જો બોયસ: બ્લુગ્રાસ કલાભિજ્ઞતા ....... ન્યૂજર્સીથી

Filmed:
7,302,577 views

16 વર્ષથી ઓછી વયના ભાઈઓ જહોની , રોબી અને ટોમી મીઝ્ઝોને યુએસના સારી અર્લ સ્ક્ર્ગગ્સના બ્લ્યુગ્રાસ કરતાં ઓફ બ્રુસ સ્પ્રિન્ગસ્ટીન રોક માટે જાણીતા એવા ન્યૂજર્સીથી આવેલા છે.ઘણી નાની ઉંમરે તેમનો હાથ બ્લ્યુગ્રાસ પર બેસી ગયો હતો,એમના પોતે રચેલા રચનાઓ તો ખરી જ. અહિયાં તેમણે ત્રણ અલગ-અલગ તર્જ પર વગાડેલા છે,તર્જ વાયોલિનમાંથી બોન્જોમાં અને પછી ગિટારમાં એમ એકપછી એકમાંથી પસાર થય રહી છે.
- 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. Full bio

Double-click the English transcript below to play the video.

00:14
(Music)
0
2583
8740
(સંગીત)
01:57
(Applause)
1
105512
3752
(તાળીઓ)
02:01
(Music)
2
109288
8332
(સંગીત)
02:21
(Applause)
3
129443
9657
(તાળીઓ)
02:31
Robbie Mizzone: Thank you.
4
139124
1979
રોબી મીઝ્ઝોને: આભાર.
02:33
Tommy Mizzone: Thank you very much.
5
141127
1192
ટોમી મીઝ્ઝોને
તમારો આભાર.
02:34
We're so excited to be here.
It's such an honor for us.
6
142343
2623
અમે ખુબજ ઉત્સાહિત છીએ.
અહિયાં હોવું એ ગર્વની વાત છે.
02:36
Like he said, we're
three brothers from New Jersey --
7
144990
2746
અમે ત્રણ ભાઈઓ ન્યૂ જર્સીથી
આવેલા છીએ.
02:39
you know, the bluegrass
capital of the world.
8
147760
3587
બ્લયુ ગ્રાસ્સ સીટીનું નામ
તો જાણીતુંજ છે.
02:43
(Laughter)
9
151371
1787
(હાસ્ય)
02:45
We discovered bluegrass a few years ago,
10
153182
2737
અમે થોડા વર્ષો પહેલા બ્લ્યુગ્રાસ શોધ્યું,
02:47
and we fell in love with it.
We hope you guys will too.
11
155943
2620
અને અમે તેની સાથે પ્રેમમાં પડ્યા.
આશા રાખીએ તમને પણ એવું જ લાગે.
હવેનું ગીત - "ટાઈમ લેપ્સ ",
જે અમે જાતે લખ્યું છે
02:50
This next song is an original
we wrote called "Timelapse,"
12
158587
3629
02:54
and it will probably live up to its name.
13
162240
3234
અને તે કદાચ એના નામને સાકાર કરે છે.
02:57
(Tuning)
14
165498
8006
( ટ્યુનિંગ )
03:05
(Music)
15
173528
8124
(સંગીત)
04:49
(Applause)
16
277639
11650
(તાળીઓ)
05:01
TM: Thank you very much.
17
289313
2993
ટો.મી.:તમારો ખૂબ આભાર.
05:04
RM: I'm just going to take
a second to introduce the band.
18
292330
2762
રો.મી.: હું થોડો સમય લઈશ,
બેન્ડ નો પરિચય કરવામાં માટે
ગિતાર વગાડી રહ્યો છે તે મારો ੧૫ વર્ષીય ભાઈ ટોમી છે.
05:07
On guitar is my 15-year-old brother Tommy.
19
295116
2264
05:09
(Applause)
20
297404
5343
(તાળીઓ)
05:14
On banjo is 10-year-old Jonny.
21
302771
2476
૧◯ વર્ષીય જોની, બોન્જો વગાડી રહ્યો છે
05:17
(Applause) He's also our brother.
22
305271
6052
(તાળીઓ)
તે પણ અમારો ભાઈ છે.
05:23
And I'm Robbie, and I'm 14,
and I play the fiddle.
23
311347
2816
અને હું રોબ્બી , ੧૫ વર્ષીય ,
હું વાયોલિન વગાડું છું .
05:26
(Applause)
24
314187
4768
(તાળીઓ)
05:30
As you can see, we decided
to make it hard on ourselves,
25
318979
2667
તમે જોઈ શકો છો ,
અમે ખુબજ મેહનત કરી રહ્યા છે.
અમે ત્રણ ગીત વગાડવા માટે પસંદ કર્યાં છે,
05:33
and we chose to play three songs
26
321670
1524
એ પણ ત્રણ અલગ તર્જ પર.
05:35
in three different keys.
27
323218
3923
05:39
Yeah. I'm also going to explain,
a lot of people want to know
28
327165
2905
હું તે પણ તમને જણાવું કે જે ઘણા બધા લોકો જાણવા ઉત્સુક છે
કે અમારા બેંડનું નામ "સ્લીપી મેન બાન્જો બોયસ" કેવી રીતે પડ્યું?
05:42
where we got the name
Sleepy Man Banjo Boys from.
29
330094
2795
05:44
So it started when Jonny was little,
30
332913
2268
તેની શરૂઆત જયારે જોહની નાનો હતો ત્યારે થય.
05:47
and he first started the banjo,
he would play on his back
31
335205
3374
તેમણે પ્રથમ બેન્જો વગાડવાની શરૂઆત,
પીઠ પર વગાડવાથી કરી.
05:50
with his eyes closed,
32
338603
1233
આંખો બંદ કરીને,
05:51
and we'd say it looked
like he was sleeping.
33
339860
1894
જાણે કે એ સુઈ રહ્યો છે,
05:53
So you can probably piece
the rest together.
34
341778
2096
હવે તમે આ કડી મેળવી શકો છો.
ટોમી:અમે પણ આનુ કારણ નથી જાણી શક્યા.
05:55
TM: We can't really figure
out the reason for this.
35
343898
2429
કદાચ એનો ભાર લાખો ગણો છે.
05:58
It might have been that it
weighs about a million pounds.
36
346351
4003
06:02
(Music)
37
350378
9083
(સંગીત)
07:39
(Applause)
38
447266
4538
(તાળીઓ)
07:43
(Music)
39
451828
5404
(સંગીત)
08:25
(Applause)
40
493230
5034
(તાળીઓ)
08:30
TM: Thank you very much.
41
498288
2334
ટો.મી.: તમારો ખૂબ ખૂબ આભાર.
08:32
RM: Thank you.
42
500646
4847
રો.મી. : આભાર.
Translated by zalak patel
Reviewed by Dharmesh Patel

▲Back to top

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