Bronwyn Keith-Hynes on 'I Built a World,' Bluegrass, Fiddle Playing, and Singing | CONTRARY WESTERN
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- Опубліковано 15 лис 2024
- After a week of snow and ice that shut Nashville down in early 2024, Bronwyn Keith-Hynes joined us up at Dee's Country Cocktail Lounge in Madison to share songs from her forthcoming album "I Built a World."
"Only time will tell if it was time well spent," she sang, flanked by her live band as the bartender started her side work for the day. Dierks Bentley, who sang with Bronwyn on the record cut of the Big Al Anderson song, “Trip Around the Sun,” is one of many country and bluegrass musicians to contribute to Bronwyn’s first album on which she’s sang lead vocals.
“Singing’s a different thing, and that’s something I’ve come at a lot later in life-so that’s an interesting mind game, especially the more I sing and put out this record,” Bronwyn said of the leap she’s taken at this point in her career and being asked about the relationship between fiddling, singing, and being an artist. “I’ve just identified as a fiddler for so long, it takes a little while to think about, ‘Okay, I can be a singer. I’ll sing. Now I sing. Am I an artist?’ Yeah, everyone’s an artist who plays music, so I’m an artist too. Singer. Artist. Fiddler.”
With a live band featuring Frank Evans on banjo, Frank Carter Rische on guitar, Reed Stutz on mandolin, Vickie Vaughn on bass-and, of course, Georgia the dog on the couch-Bronwyn would run through a few more songs, including “Riddle” by singer-songwriter and banjo player Brenna MacMillan and "Will You Ever Be Mine" by Reed Stutz, who accompanies Bronwyn on this live session.
“I Built a World” itself features a stacked lineup, featuring bluegrass greats Sam Bush and Jerry Douglas, Bronwyn’s buddy and bandleader Molly Tuttle, and fiancé Jason Carter, to name just a few. But it’s clear in talking to Bronwyn that collaborating with her bluegrass heroes and her contemporaries isn’t about album credits, it's about community. Community in Nashville, in the bluegrass scene, and at Dee’s, where she and the band would be taking the stage that evening, after a set by East Nash Grass, for the second evening of her first ever Nashville residency with the Madison Guild at Dee’s.
By the time the session was over the snow had started to melt, enough for us all to get all the way home. A few weeks later, Bronwyn would run on stage with Molly Tuttle, where the two received the Best Bluegrass Album Grammy for Molly’s record “City of Gold.” And, some weeks later, she announced her engagement to fellow fiddle player Jason Carter, himself a member of the Del McCoury Band. And now, as spring is here, Bronwyn is back on the road playing fiddle as a member of Molly Tuttle’s Golden Highway band, back in the flow state she shared with us, and back after time well spent.
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Bronwyn's voice is pure magic. Listened to all her performances at Dee's. It's never enough. ❤❤❤👏👏👏
The Dee's shows are so much fun!
Enjoy your fiddle playing and your singing. Saw her first with Brenna McMillan and Cristina Vane singing gospel together. Love the three of them together.
Nice, I just turned 31 a month ago and heard trip around the sun on Bluegrass Junction in my car. I felt it, it's deep, I love that song.
I first saw Bronwyn at a Molly Tuttle concert at the Ryman and was impressed with her fiddle playing style and talent. Now I'm hooked on the singing! I look forward to great things from Bronwyn Keith-Hynes!
Love this girl and her music. Such an inspiration to musicians all over...:)
Frank Rische’, brings every 2n to real pulse life 👍👍👍🎶🎶🎶
This video pops up on Google this day on the 23rd of September which just happens to be my birthday. Isn't that ironic.
I had no idea you could sing or even who you were until I saw you with Molly in Huber Heights. Amazing / ,
Keep killin' it Bronwyn. Congrats on all of your success!!
Saw you in Vancouver (second time) with Molly recently. Wanted to yell to you that your solo songs are amazing. Keep those thoughtful songs coming. The world is a better place with your singing.
Come back and perform for us. 🇨🇦
Top notch, every which a way. Smart, engaging lyrics, superb musicianship, great harmonies. Thanks for sharing your gifts with us!
Great performer and a super personality. Come on Bronwyn we need a visit to the UK pronto with Molly AND the band.
You are not "trying" to be a lead singer.
You ARE a lead singer, and a great one.
THE Slocan banjo MAN!
Nice!
It's great to see Bronwyn spreading her wings like this! I wish her the very best of success with her "solo" career alongside Golden Highway and other collaborations!
I think she's a sweetheart 😊❤
Thanks for letting us take the trip with you.
It’s beautiful!!!👏🤗
Thanks a lot
00:43 Trip Around the Sun
07:01 Riddle
11:47 Will You Ever Be Mine
Pure sweetness and such talented musicans ❤ Thank you!
Fantastic!
Is that a National Oldtime Fiddlers hat 🎻❤️
love it! And will certainly be picking up the album once it comes out in vinyl this summer
P.S. Also-FashionPlate par excellence!
I figured she devoted all her time to fiddle....she'll now get real good, real quick on her vocals .
DOUBLE FRANK ENERGY
Who is the street bum on the guitar? Really Professional looking to me!
Although focusing on Bluegrass, Bronwyn is true rocker when she improvises. Her playing is too modest. She can really rip it with her fiddle. A sensitive soul expressed in her music but regardless Bronwyn is the friggin’ KING OG THE FIDDLE!!!
Geez------around 3:10 thats all I can say
I love this artist but that damned banjo....ugh, drowns out everything.
No it doesn't. You barely hear it at all as much as you do actually notice it.
@@Scablander the banjo is like