RE: [Harp-L] Subject: New to list Harp Player: Bonny B. (Brown) MaleCambodian/Swiss player

["Tom Klingl" <tom.klingl@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you Elizabeth,

He's from Fribourg which is about 30 miles away from here (Berne).
Fribourg is bilangue - bilingual - some folks speak French, some
some German, some both  - with an amazing ease.
Heard of him via a working colleague who is from there but
then sort of forgot about him.
On his website http://www.bonnyb.ch/home.php there's even
a link to a local blues club (which Berne doesn't offer).
A reason to go out this summer when the kids are in camp ;-)

Tom

> -----Original Message-----
> From: EGS1217@xxxxxxx [mailto:EGS1217@xxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 7:04 PM
> To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Harp-L] Subject: New to list Harp Player: Bonny B. 
> (Brown) MaleCambodian/Swiss player
> 
> 
> I came across this interesting young harp player: Bonny B.
>  
> Thought 'he' was supposed to be a 'she' because of the name 
> (hey, I'm  
> Scottish) :)
>  
> This is a VERY NICE rendition of Bob Marley's:
>  
> No Woman No Cry
>  
> _http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsbA7S0gvtI_ 
> (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsbA7S0gvtI) 
>  
>  
> Turns out (from my limited ability to translate from the 
> French) - his  
> family is Cambodian - escaped from the Pol Pot regime to 
> Switzerland - where he 
>  taught himself harmonica, being especially attracted to 
> American Blues and 
> Soul  music as he grew up:
>  
>  
> _http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR3TP3KTOzM_ 
> (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR3TP3KTOzM) 
>  
>  
> perhaps someone else could add to/correct my poor french?
>  
>  
> ..this following video proves that one doesn't have to be 
> born  here in 
> order to play/sing the Blues:
>  
>  
> I'm Just Your Fool
>  
>  
> _http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp6Txx6QxIE_ 
> (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp6Txx6QxIE) 
>  
>  
>  
> Mannish Boy
>  
>  
> _http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeEjtdrK8FE_ 
> (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeEjtdrK8FE) 
>  
>  
>  
> Georgia
>  
>  
> _http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbzDNC8-K_8_ 
> (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbzDNC8-K_8) 
>  
>  
>  
> This one is interesting:  The Thrill is Gone:
>  
>  
> _http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVVMIsJackI_ 
> (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVVMIsJackI) 
>  
>  
> I then did a bit more of a search.  Many videos. He's  
> self-taught and has 
> been touring and gigging.  A lot. Seems he also holds a  
> recent Guinness 
> record for 24 hours playing harp...uh oh, does that 
> illegitimize  him here? .
>  
> There's a clip of his band playing in a bar in Switzerland 
> where he uses a  
> megaphone to give him an extra 'boost' of sound when he needs 
> it without 
> blaring  over the entire bar....very cool.
>  
>  Many of the videos are from the Ecole Suisse. He seems to be 
>  representing 
> Hohner, specifically Marine Bands, his harp of choice. My 
> only  complaint 
> is that most of his videos cut off abruptly, far too soon.
>  
> Elizabeth
>  
>  
>  
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