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"A real musicians' band with a groove colored with the tones and shades from around the world that always moves forward in an approach similar to the Dead, with whom Tamboura shares and easygoing sensibility." -Seth Rogovoy, The Berkshire Eagle & The Rogovoy Report "That band could play anywhere in the Caribbean and no one would dis them!" -Dahania Ingraham, Berkshire Community College exchange student from Jamaica "Easy, breezy Key West escapist music. My kind of music!" -Dr. Easy INSPIRED VOICES dance with flutes, steel drum, assorted guitars, bass, trumpet and driving worldbeat percussion to create the music that is Tamboura. While rooted in folk/rock/blues traditions, Tamboura keeps good company with Afro/Caribbean and jazz rhythms that make you gotta dance! THEY'VE BEEN rockin' 'n skankin' the Berkshires and beyond since 1989. The band has shared stages with Third World, Entrain, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Rory Block, Britain's Duncan MacKenzie Band, Max Creek and local faves, The Equalites, The Rev Tor Band and Loose Caboose. Tamboura was hugely popular at the internationally acclaimed 2004 Blues to Bop Festival in Lugano, Switzerland and Marcote, Italy and they had the gypsies dancin' in the streets at the 2005 Bansko International Jazz & World Music Festival in Bansko, Bulgaria! Check out their classic CD, "Live At The Lion", on Dry Ducks Records. 
TAMBOURA'S LINE-UP constellates around David Reed's dynamic guitar/banjo/vocal stylings, Miss Mary Knysh's colorful flutes/steel drum/mandolin/vocal escapades and the driving drum & pulsing percussion of Sam "the Samster" Earnshaw. The band has been fortunate to have included the talents of bassists Mark Hejna, Dan Broad and Steve Ide; drummer/percussionists Steve Mitchell, Zack Zanecchia, Conor Meehan, Jim Weber, Evan Smoker and Cosmas Poulos; lead guitarist Rich Hommel; the "dubble trubble" of steel pan drummers/guitarists extraordinaire Morgan Rael and John Hilton, vocalists Lee Everett, Joanne Spies and Elizabeth Petty...and "The Sax Symbol" himself, Charlie Tokarz. You just never know who'll be on a Tamboura show!
"Hey now, if Woody Guthrie he play in de band wid Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon, an' de Jimmies Buffet an' Cliff, dey prob'ly soun' somet'ing like dis."- Uncle Bubbel Q: HEY MON, what's a Tamboura, anyway? A: All of the above!  View Tamboura/TuTu Much/David Reed's EPK |
