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Sleepy Man Banjo Boys - Bluegrass musicians
The Sleepy Man Banjo Boys is made up of 11-year-old banjo sensation Jonny Mizzone and his brothers Robbie, 14, on fiddle, and Tommy, 15, on guitar.

Why you should listen

These days your kid can get famous on YouTube for having water sprayed at him, for being duped about his Halloween candy, and for being high off laughing gas. But what if your 8-year-old gets famous on the Internet for being an absolute genius on the banjo? So goes the story of Jonny Mizzone, who first became a YouTube sensation in early 2011 for videos of him and his brothers tearing it up playing Earl Scruggs's Flint Hill Special. It wasn't long before the press started calling.

Now Jonny, Robbie (fiddle) and Tommy (guitar), known as the Sleepy Man Banjo Boys, are 11, 14 and 15 respectively. In 2011 alone they got calls from The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and in the summer of 2011 they appeared as musical guests on The Late Show with David Letterman and NBC’s Today Show.

While the trio grew up in New Jersey -- which is known more for rock music than for bluegrass -- they fell in love with the unique sounds of J.D. Crowe, Ralph Stanley, Clarence White and Earl Scruggs after some creative YouTube searching. Now, having become sensations on the platform themselves, the trio has accumulated more than 17 million video views. Their first album, America’s Music, was released in September 2011 and charted top eight on the Billboard Bluegrass Album Chart. In October 2012 they released their second album, The Farthest Horizon, which cracked the top three. The group is already at work on their next album.

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Sleepy Man Banjo Boys: Bluegrass virtuosity from ... New Jersey?

Uykulu Adam Banço Çocukları: New Jersey'den Bluegrass ... ustalığı?

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Hepsi de 16 yaşından küçük, New Jersey'den geliyorlar, kardeşler Jonny, Robbie ve Tommy Mizzone, US'de Bruce Springsteen'ın rock'ı Earl Scruggs'n bluegrass'ından daha iyi bilinirdi. Buna rağmen, kardeşler daha küçük bir yaşta bluegrass şarkılarını sanki kendi besteleriymiş gibi yeniden yorumlamaya başladılar, Burada, onlar göz kamaştırıcı 3 şarkıyı 3 farklı çalgıyla çalıyorlar, önden arkaya sırayla kemandan bançoya sonra gitara geçiyor.
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RobbieRobbie MizzoneMizzone: Thank you.
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Robbie Mizzone: Teşekkürler.
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TommyTommy MizzoneMizzone: Thank you very much.
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Tommy Mizzone: Çok teşekkürler.
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We're so excitedheyecanlı to be here.
It's suchböyle an honorOnur for us.
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Burada olduğumuz için çok heyecanlıyız. Bu bizim için büyük bir onur.
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Like he said, we're
threeüç brothersKardeşler from NewYeni JerseyJersey --
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Onun da dediği gibi, biz New Jersey 'den 3 kardeşiz,
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you know, the bluegrassbluegrass
capitalBaşkent of the worldDünya.
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bilirsiniz, dünyanın bluegrass başkenti.
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We discoveredkeşfedilen bluegrassbluegrass a fewaz yearsyıl agoönce,
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Biz bluegrass'ı birkaç yıl önce keşfettik,
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and we felldüştü in love with it.
We hopeumut you guys will too.
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ve onu çok sevdik. Umarız siz de seversiniz.
Sıradaki şarkı,"Timelapse" adlı, bizim yazdığımız orjinal bir şarkıdır,
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This nextSonraki songşarkı is an originalorijinal
we wroteyazdı calleddenilen "TimelapseTimelapse,"
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and it will probablymuhtemelen livecanlı up to its nameisim.
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ve muhtemelen ismine uygun yaşayacaktır.
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TMTM: Thank you very much.
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TM: Çok Teşekkürler.
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RMRM: I'm just going to take
a secondikinci to introducetakdim etmek the bandgrup.
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RM: Grubu tanıtmak için bir saniyenizi alacağım.
Gitar da 15 yaşında ki kardeşim Tommy.
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On guitargitar is my 15-year-old-yaşında brothererkek kardeş TommyTommy.
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On banjobanço is 10-year-old-yaşında JonnyJonny.
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Banço da 10 yaşında ki kardeşim Jonny.
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(Alkışlar) O aynı zaman da kardeşimizdir.
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And I'm RobbieRobbie, and I'm 14,
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Ve ben Robbie, ve 14 yaşındayım, ve keman çalarım.
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As you can see, we decidedkarar
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çalmak için 3 şarkı seçtik,
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and we choseseçti to playoyun threeüç songsşarkılar
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in threeüç differentfarklı keysanahtarları.
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Yeah. I'm alsoAyrıca going to explainaçıklamak,
a lot of people want to know
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Evet, bir de bir çok insanın merak ettiği gibi adımızı yani "Sleepy Man Banjo Boys"
nereden aldığımızı açıklayacağım.
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where we got the nameisim
SleepyUykulu Man BanjoBanjo BoysÇocuklar from.
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So it startedbaşladı when JonnyJonny was little,
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Jonny küçükken başladı,
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and he first startedbaşladı the banjobanço,
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ve o ilk bançoya başladı, gözleri kapalı,
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with his eyesgözleri closedkapalı,
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and we'devlenmek say it lookedbaktı
like he was sleepinguyuyor.
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ve söyleyebiliriz ki o uyuyor gibi gözüküyordu.
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So you can probablymuhtemelen pieceparça
the restdinlenme togetherbirlikte.
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Muhtemelen siz geri kalanını birleştirebilirsiniz.
TM: Bunun sebebini gerçekten anlayamıyoruz.
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TMTM: We can't really figureşekil
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TMTM: Thank you very much.
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TM: Çok teşekkürler.
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RMRM: Thank you.
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RM: Teşekkürler.
Translated by Tayfun Yaşar
Reviewed by Serhat Tunar

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Sleepy Man Banjo Boys - Bluegrass musicians
The Sleepy Man Banjo Boys is made up of 11-year-old banjo sensation Jonny Mizzone and his brothers Robbie, 14, on fiddle, and Tommy, 15, on guitar.

Why you should listen

These days your kid can get famous on YouTube for having water sprayed at him, for being duped about his Halloween candy, and for being high off laughing gas. But what if your 8-year-old gets famous on the Internet for being an absolute genius on the banjo? So goes the story of Jonny Mizzone, who first became a YouTube sensation in early 2011 for videos of him and his brothers tearing it up playing Earl Scruggs's Flint Hill Special. It wasn't long before the press started calling.

Now Jonny, Robbie (fiddle) and Tommy (guitar), known as the Sleepy Man Banjo Boys, are 11, 14 and 15 respectively. In 2011 alone they got calls from The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and in the summer of 2011 they appeared as musical guests on The Late Show with David Letterman and NBC’s Today Show.

While the trio grew up in New Jersey -- which is known more for rock music than for bluegrass -- they fell in love with the unique sounds of J.D. Crowe, Ralph Stanley, Clarence White and Earl Scruggs after some creative YouTube searching. Now, having become sensations on the platform themselves, the trio has accumulated more than 17 million video views. Their first album, America’s Music, was released in September 2011 and charted top eight on the Billboard Bluegrass Album Chart. In October 2012 they released their second album, The Farthest Horizon, which cracked the top three. The group is already at work on their next album.

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