The Plattsburgh Press Republican is reporting this morning that the Gibson Brothers, from Ellenburg Depot, took two awards at the International Bluegrass Association ceremony, including album of the year for “Help My Brother.
“Our album had been No. 1 on the Bluegrass Unlimited chart for five months,” Eric [Gibson] said. “If we were going to get it, it was now. It was up with some heavy hitters.”
Check out this video to get a taste for what the latest album sounds like and you can also hear them perform live on October 15th at 6:30pm in the Ausable Valley Middle School Auditorium, where they’re playing a benefit concert for Holy Name School.
Congratulations to Eric,Leigh and to Mike Barber, who has been with them all the time and all the way.
On a hot summer day in 1994 I had just returned from a parade with the Norwood Brass Firemen (the Tupper Lake Woodsman’s Parade) and I received a phone call from the Visitor Interpretative Center at Paul Smiths. They were going to have a family activity day in a few weeks and could I recommend a band. Although I had never heard the Gibson Brothers play myself I recommended them as a possibility and referred the person to Barb Heller for further details. They were engaged for that event and it gave me an opportunity to hear them in person. They were pretty good (I say this with affection – after all they were just getting started), and I hired them the Norwood Village Green Concert Series for our 1995 season. The ten month interim showed a great step forward for the group and their sister Erin sang with them. Although not credited in the CD notes, Erin made a guest appearance on the Gibson Brothers “Ring the BellS” CD.
I wanted to hire them again and soon. So in 1996 they came to our series with a guest, the great Nova Scotia fiddler Ray Legere. The improvement of the group over that two year period was astounding and boded well for their future.
The Gibson Brothers development in Bluegrass over the years has given anyone who has heard them from the beginning and through the years to be proud of them.
Thankfully the Gibson Brothers will return to the Norwood Village Green Concert Series on Sunday, July 22, 2012 for their 3rd appearance in our series.
Tune in this Thursday at 3 for String Fever – and a lot more music from the Gibson Brothers!
We have good reason to be proud of these sons of the north country; Eric and Leigh Gibson have just received one of the most coveted awards in bluegrass music. Bassist Mike Barber is also a chip off the old block – his dad is Junior Barber, resophonic guitarist with BearTracks bluegrass band. All are from northern New York.
Last year the Gibson Brothers’ song “Iron and Diamonds” won song of the year from the International Bluegrass Music Association. It’s about the Lyon Mountain miners who mined iron ore all week and played baseball on the weekends. Go Gibsons!
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Congratulations to Eric,Leigh and to Mike Barber, who has been with them all the time and all the way.
On a hot summer day in 1994 I had just returned from a parade with the Norwood Brass Firemen (the Tupper Lake Woodsman’s Parade) and I received a phone call from the Visitor Interpretative Center at Paul Smiths. They were going to have a family activity day in a few weeks and could I recommend a band. Although I had never heard the Gibson Brothers play myself I recommended them as a possibility and referred the person to Barb Heller for further details. They were engaged for that event and it gave me an opportunity to hear them in person. They were pretty good (I say this with affection – after all they were just getting started), and I hired them the Norwood Village Green Concert Series for our 1995 season. The ten month interim showed a great step forward for the group and their sister Erin sang with them. Although not credited in the CD notes, Erin made a guest appearance on the Gibson Brothers “Ring the BellS” CD.
I wanted to hire them again and soon. So in 1996 they came to our series with a guest, the great Nova Scotia fiddler Ray Legere. The improvement of the group over that two year period was astounding and boded well for their future.
The Gibson Brothers development in Bluegrass over the years has given anyone who has heard them from the beginning and through the years to be proud of them.
Thankfully the Gibson Brothers will return to the Norwood Village Green Concert Series on Sunday, July 22, 2012 for their 3rd appearance in our series.
Tune in this Thursday at 3 for String Fever – and a lot more music from the Gibson Brothers!
We have good reason to be proud of these sons of the north country; Eric and Leigh Gibson have just received one of the most coveted awards in bluegrass music. Bassist Mike Barber is also a chip off the old block – his dad is Junior Barber, resophonic guitarist with BearTracks bluegrass band. All are from northern New York.
Last year the Gibson Brothers’ song “Iron and Diamonds” won song of the year from the International Bluegrass Music Association. It’s about the Lyon Mountain miners who mined iron ore all week and played baseball on the weekends. Go Gibsons!