Red Rock Rondo is very thankful to everyone who plays or reviews our song cycle!
Folk DJ Radio Airplay: #10 Album #7 Song (President Harding) 2MAX Narrrabri, Australia 2MCE Bathurst, Australia 4RED Queensland, Aus. SHMU Aberdeen, Scotland CJTR Regina, Canada CKPC Ontaria, Canada CKUT Montreal, Canada Radio Upper Galilee, Israel NZST Hastings, New Zealand KACI The Dalles, OR KBCS Seattle, WA KCSB Santa Barbara, CA KDVS San Diego, CA KNBA Anchorage, AK KPFK Los Angeles, CA KRCC Colorado Springs, CO KRCL Salt Lake City, UT KRFC Fort Collins, CO KTEP El Paso, TX KUER Salt Lake City, UT KVMR Nevada City, CA NHPR Concord, NH WAMU Washington, DC WBGU Bowling Green, OH WCNI New Haven, CT WCVF Fredonia, NY WDCB Glen Ellyn, IL WEFT Champaign, IL WFDU Teaneck, NJ WFHB Bloomington, IN WFIT Melbourne, FL WFMT Chicago, IL WHFR Dearborn HIlls, MI WHUS Storrs, CT WJCU Cleveland, OH WJFF Liberty, NY WLRN Miami, FL WMUD Bridport, VT WOJB Hayward, WI WOMR Provincetown, MA WPRB Princeton, NJ WRFG Atlanta, GA WRKF Baton Rouge, LA WRUR Rochester, NY WSCL/WSDL Salisbury, MD WSLU Canton, NY WSPN Saratoga Springs, NY WTBQ Warwick, NY WTJU Charlottesville, VA WVPE South Bend, IN WXOU Auburn Hills, MI WXPN Philadelphia, PA WXXI Rochester, NY WYEP Pittsburgh, PA WYSO Detroit, MI FOLKSCENE Syndicated MIDNIGHT SPECIAL Syndicated | "magnificent ... a sensitivity and clarity rarely achieved by the poets ... exemplary ... a perfect record for Zion Park." "Folk/Americana music with well-spun yarns.” “The Red Rock Rondo CD is magnifico. Really and truly. I just love the
CD. The tunes, the arrangements, the harmonies and the stories behind
everything. It's just so wonderful. I want to go down there to
Springdale and find all the places you sing about.” "A gorgeous, lively assortment of alternative classical music using
traditional bluegrass instrumentation, with harmony vocals singing
about the Watchman, Angel's Landing and the Virgin River." David Burger, Salt Lake Tribune “It's a very engaging and interesting conceptual album, both musically and substantively. “ "It's really fascinating." "I have played it quite a bit----a brilliant piece of work. So rarely does material come in that just jumps out at you and moves you---I cannot think of any one piece that overshadows any of the others on this work. Though-personally-I cannot get enough of "The Boy Who Never Saw A Train". What a picture it paints." Bill Hahn, WFDU-FM, Teaneck, NJ “Zion National Park turns 100 years old in 2009 ... Perhaps nothing will celebrate the park and its past quite as uniquely as the band Red Rock Rondo does on its new ‘Zion Canyon Song Cycle‘ album. The 16 songs are the result of research ... oral histories and historic materials that infuse the album's songs with imagery that take the listener back in time, and right to the doorstep of Zion's majestic topography.” “The CD is a delight ... You can consider the CD a hit." 2008 Top Ten Albums: #5 "The best local album of the year comes from six Utah musicians who blend classical song structures with organic folk, telling a story about the state that is rich, evocative and loving." David Burger, Salt Lake Tribune "This is truly music at its finest...the magical telling of a story of a small town in Utah with the passion and sensitivity to recognize the beauty of its landscape and the love of the common folks in Springdale. Highly recommended." John Wiemer Composer Phillip Bimstein conjures the ghosts, heroines and tensions of
Southwest Utah and, with Red Rock Rondo, makes them sing. ... Zion Canyon Song cycle is unlike any musical composition we’ve ever
heard. It’s an ambitious synthesis of art song and folk song, history
and myth, boosterism and poetry. ... These songs deserve to reach beyond their
birthplace. Would that they will. And would that every town – with its
ghosts, big rocks, tensions and tragedies -- could attract and keep an
alchemist in residence." Julie Ardery, The Daily Yonder
"'Long as I can remember, I've been enthralled by vintage photographs. ... The best songwriters are every bit as capable and effective in capturing memories of the human experience. And, in the instance where no camera was present, can reconstruct the events with such vivid clarity that you'll never miss the picture. Zion Canyon Song Cycle captures the landscape, heritage, and contemporary work-a-day world of Utah’s Zion National Park. ... As with any family album worth its salt, Zion Canyon Song Cycle covers both the milestones and the mundane. ... it is not Western music, but rather music of the West. " Jeri Dobrowksi, Cowboy Jam Session |
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