{"id":739618,"date":"2013-02-26T23:05:56","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T04:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/?p=70215"},"modified":"2013-02-26T23:46:36","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T04:46:36","slug":"bluegrass-from-er-new-jersey-sleepy-man-banjo-boys-at-ted2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/739618","title":{"rendered":"Bluegrass from, er, New Jersey: Sleepy Man Banjo Boys at TED2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_71052\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 910px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tedconfblog.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/ted2013_0036399_d31_0424.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-71052  \" alt=\"TED2013_0036399_D31_0424\" src=\"http:\/\/tedconfblog.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/ted2013_0036399_d31_0424.jpg?w=900&#038;h=599&#038;fit=900%2C599&#038;resize=780%2C519\" width=\"780\" height=\"519\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photos: James Duncan Davidson<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">We\u2019ve seen a number of \u201cthe young\u201d of the conference&#8217;s theme in this session of TED2013. Now, to play us off out into the night are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sleepymanbanjoboys.com\/\">Sleepy Man Banjo Boys<\/a>, a trio of brothers from New Jersey, the youngest of whom became a YouTube sensation in 2011 when he was only eight years old. &#8220;They&#8217;re fantastic musicians, really incredible players,&#8221; says TED music advisor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/activecultures\">Bill Bragin<\/a> of the three, the oldest of whom even now is only 15 years old. &#8220;And there\u2019s something about the interaction of a bluegrass band and the way the fiddle, the banjo, and the guitar intersect because they\u2019re brothers. There\u2019s a real intuitive sense that happens when they\u2019re locked in that really comes across.&#8221; The crowd certainly feels it; whoops and hollers round off the end of the rollercoaster first day at TED.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tedconfblog.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/ted2013_0036788_d41_5038.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-71054\" alt=\"TED2013_0036788_D41_5038\" src=\"http:\/\/tedconfblog.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/ted2013_0036788_d41_5038.jpg?w=900&#038;h=603&#038;fit=900%2C603&#038;resize=780%2C523\" width=\"780\" height=\"523\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tedconfblog.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/ted2013_0036770_d41_5020.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-71055\" alt=\"TED2013_0036770_D41_5020\" src=\"http:\/\/tedconfblog.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/ted2013_0036770_d41_5020.jpg?w=900&#038;h=643&#038;fit=900%2C643&#038;resize=780%2C557\" width=\"780\" height=\"557\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<br \/>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/70215\/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/70215\/\" \/><\/a> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?resize=1%2C1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TEDBlog\/~4\/L4FQvXkqiLQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photos: James Duncan Davidson We\u2019ve seen a number of \u201cthe young\u201d of the conference&#8217;s theme in this session of TED2013. Now, to play us off out into the night are Sleepy Man Banjo Boys, a trio of brothers from New Jersey, the youngest of whom became a YouTube sensation in 2011 when he was only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-739618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-36pk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}