Merrymakers: The Busted String Family

Posted by admin on Apr 14, 2010 in Featured Articles | 0 comments

The Busted String Family isn’t really a band. It’s more like a musicians’ collective, a group of friends who get together because we love music. We mostly met out on the lawn at the beginning of the year when the weather was nice and things just grew from there. Spontaneity became habit, and music the medium of joy. I guess it’s just a family, really. We have our squabbles, our tussles and our triumphs. But like a family, we celebrate the things that bring us together.

“Shows” aren’t really our forte, but they’re fun. Anytime we get a good chance to cut the rug a little, we like to, but we’d rather just sing with friends. Coming from a kaleidoscopic range of musical tastes, trainings and proclivities, we like to keep things simple, acoustic and on the road. Cause in the end it isn’t really about us at all. It’s about the family, music, the joy of coming together to make something boring beautiful. It’s the outrageous joy of a Father that knocks down walls, flings open doors, windows, and hearts alike, can bring together the roughest ramblers and rapscallions to make a choir, and can even catch all the slippery fish and bring the biggest jive-turkeys home to roost.

So the invite is open. Musicians and melody-makers, throat singers, note flingers, toe-tappers and tune-tootlers. Bring whatever you got even if just your voice, hands and heart. We’ll be outside somewhere.