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A four piece ensemble made up of voice, guitar, mandolin, fiddle, banjo, bass, and percussion. They play a variety of styles including Renaissance, Medieval, folk, celtic, jazz, bluegrass and rock.
The Hungry Monks are an acoustic group whose instrumentation includes voice, guitar, mandolin, fiddle, banjo, bass, and percussion. Based around thr creative talents of Hazel Ketchum and John Holenko, The Hungry Monks have played concerts, clubs, festivals, and private events. The Monks play a variety of traditional musics as well as their own original songs (Hazel´s) and instrumentals (John´s). As a band and as individuals, they have played rock, folk, Celtic, bluegrass, jazz, Renaissance and Medieval music. Somehow, all of that makes its way into their sets. They have been working with John Kennedy on bass for many years now and he shares their love for everything from Machaut to Jerry Garcia. The Monks wear out fiddle players pretty quickly. The latest in our long line of fiddlers is Bob Culver, who also plays guitar and mandolin and sings (mostly, highly inappropriate material). The Hungry Monks have recorded 2 CD´s. Their first CD is called "Organic Tangerines" and features traditional Irish and original music. They also have a Celtic Christmas CD called "All Through The Night". The Hungry Monks fearlessly perform at any venue that will have them, including Charleston´s Music Farm, The Piccolo Spoleto Festival, Charleston First Night, The St. Joseph International Guitar Festival, The Cuyahoga Valley Environmental Education Center, and Tommy Condon´s Irish Pub. Our recordings have been heard on radio stations throughout the US and we have appeared on TV at morning times when no self-respecting musician would be found awake (unless they had not yet actually gone to bed).
The Hungry Monks are available to perform for wedding rehearsals and receptions, corporate events, private parties, and more. For an eclectic and beautiful music experience that you won't forget, consider booking The Hungry Monks.
Sample Song List:
Wedding Music
J.S. Bach - Sleepers Awake/Jesu, Joy of Man´s Desiring
The Wedding March (Here Comes the Bride)
Pacelbel's Canon in D
Vivaldi - Concerto for lute, 2nd Movement/Spring from The Four Seasons
Trumpet Voluntary
Greensleeves
Ave Maria-(Schubert and Gounoud)
Classical Music
Music by Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Dowland,Handel, Haydn, Paganini, Vivaldi, Piazzolla and much more....
Irish/American Traditional
many Irish jigs (Kesh jig, Cliffs of Mohor,Tobin´s jig) and reels (Julia Delany, Red-Haired Boy, Whiskey Before Breakfast), hornpipes (Harvest Home, The Rights of Man), and slow airs, the music of O'Carolan, and waltzes (Irish Lamentation, Southwind, Planxty Irwin)
Old time American fiddle tunes (Jaybird, Liza Jane, Weave and Way, etc)
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