Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Felix Sonnyboy Wilson - Play My Banjo (Zodiac Sessions)

Acoustic Compilation CD available to buy from Website. www.TheZodiacSessions.com http www.youtube.com www.bebo.com Felix "Sonnyboy" Wilson playing "Play My Banjo" at the Zodiac Sessions which is held every Wednesday in Bruxelles Bar, Dublin. FELIX SONNYBOY WILSON World Travelling, Street Minstrel & Poet. At age 16 Felix started performing in a Chicago based sandwich company called PotBellys in Ann Arbor, MI. After graduating high school at 17 he took his mothers banjo from the wall and moved to Burlington Vermont, collecting old records and learning a few songs on the 5 string banjo. Singing at the Radio Bean in Burlington and becoming a busker on Church St. for the love of spreading old time music. At 19 after travelling down from Alaska he landed in Bellingham, Washington still busking in the streets, collecting 78 records and began working at a preschool starting a program he called: Interactive American Folk Songs for Children. That summer he went to Europe with a friend Mr. Jones where busking as a duet, singing gospel and country music they moved from Paris to Barcelona and on to Florence. Jones headed back to the US while Felix headed north to Ireland busking from Grafton St in Dublin to Shop St in Galway. After Europe he found his way back to Bellingham living on the Lummi Indian Reservation for a month, recording his first kids' album called the Leather Winged Bat. That fall he drove across the Great Northern back to Vermont for a snowy winter, where he hid in a ...



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