Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Joe Zawinul, Sun Ra, Grateful Dead, Carlos Santana, Jimi Hendrix, James Brown, The Doors, Cream, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Willie Nelson, Gabby Pahinui, Dennis Kamakahi, Genoa Keawe, Sonny Chillingworth, Led Kaapana, Kerry Livgren, Bob Bennett, countless world music artists from L. Shankar to Le Gran Maitre Franco to Hamza El Din to Eddie Palmieri, etc.
Sounds Like
SOMETIMES improvisational jazz viola or violin with world or ethnic overtones;
SOMETIMES ambient/meditative improvisations with Asian and western strings together;
SOMETIMES old-school Hawaiian songs with 'ukulele and paniolo fiddle;
SOMETIMES...it's different!
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To the Hula-Dancing Maiden
I'm a musician and singer, with a very eclectic background, and I'm usually known as Eric (or Erik) Golub, but also somewhere and somewhen as Q Norman (Kyu Nohman), or Gao Yuefeng....
I've lived, played jazz violin and/or viola, and studied and performed Asian musics in Hawaii, Japan and China, and I've played concerts in a few other countries. I've long been attracted to, and involved with, the music of still other countries as well.....My string improvisations have been featured on other people's albums since 1978, and I've released one solo CD so far called "Pluck!"......I'm in the process of recording 2 completely different new CDs (one folk/Hawaiian featuring vocals and ukulele, one ethnic/ambient featuring Asian strings)......I play viola in the band with a really fresh singer/songwriter, Vanessa Van Spall. Check out the new CD, "Cotton-Poly Blend"! In addition to vanessavanspall.com, it's now available on iTunes, CD Baby, and Amazon.com.
.......I've been playing my blend of Serbian gypsy and modern jazz violin and viola with Larry Vuckovich's Blue Balkan Ensemble since its inception in 1980........I'm also working solo or with a group as a Hawaiian performer on vocals, ukulele and 'slack-key fiddle.' And even though I spent years in Hawaii, and consider myself a "displaced kama'aina,'" I learned Hawaiian music and began singing it professionally here in San Francisco (visit my Hawaiian music site Alika, da Manoa boy!) .............BLOG ME at EricLectic's GolubLog, and check out all the videos below and at Slim's documentary site: Open Mic Documentary,
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My series "The Open Mic Documentary " has been nominated for a Cable TV Award as the "Best Arts Coverage: Series"!!! But being nominated for an Award is second only to WINNING the Award! So I'm asking for your vote. Go to my site www. theopenmic. net read the banner and follow the link or go directly here to get the info. www. theopenmic. net/vote. php I'd appreciate your vote. If you would care to spread the word I'd also appreciate that. Voting ends Friday September 5.
ERIC!!! I haven't sent you a message in awhile. I was just listening to your songs. They are very soothing. I miss ya in my life. I hope things are well. Have a great weekend.
ERIC!!! How are you my friend? Life is great here in Houston (it is nice when you are certain that you are in the middle of God's plan) but I do miss Cali. I am going to take piano lessons. I thought that you would find that interesting. I hope you have a great weekend.
Hi Eric! Thanks for the add. It has been fun listening to your music - sounds great! I love being in a regular musical act, but like you, I enjoy sitting in with different people and seeing what will happen. Maybe we'll jam at an open mic somewhere down the road.
Aloha Eric, Wanted to wish you a early Mele Kalikimaka! Diggs and I are thinking of you and just wanted you to know. I heard you had a gig tonight, I hope it was awesome! See you next year :0)
I was just thinking about you and it brought a smile to my face. I think it is a shame that we didn't get to spend more time together but just know that I consider you a very special friend. I may have not known you long or even known you well but I have a strong appreciation for you. I hope you have a fabulous Christmas. May God shower you with blessings my friend. I just thought you should know that you are special to me.
well well...I will use my southern charm and sweet talk Thor in to letting you play with us. I will use it is my last Sunday excuse and I really really want Eric to play with us. sounds silly but it has strong possibility of working. it will be more like begging than manipulative though because I hate manipulation. See ya at church!
Just wanted to tell ya before I went to sleep that I had a blast tonight and you rocked the house!!! You are so talented and I feel very blessed by your friendship. I wish we would have had more time over the last year before the Lord called me elsewhere. You are very precious to me though...don't ever forget that :0)
hi eric! i'm planning on going down to crosstown this thursday. how about you? hope you had a happy thanksgiving. take good care and hopefully i'll see you soon! debra fae
Hi E, So good to hear from you. Crazy luck! Im going to be in the East Bay on the 14th. Hope to see you in Natomas. Let me know the date ASAP and our band will come out to see you!Keep rocking hard!
Hello my silly friend. Will you be at East Hills on Sunday because I will be. Hope to see your smiling face. Hopefully we can all go to lunch :0) I also hope you had a fabulous weekend. When is your band playing because I want to come honest!!!
Hey Eric, I was speaking with this one of our residents at work who is a music teacher and she was telling me about an open mic in El Cerito wed night at Central Perk. She said its pretty amazing and there are alot of fiddelrs that play. I thought of you, if your intristed. Have a blessed week :0)
Eric, I was wondering what you were talking about then I went to someone else's site and saw that a video was posted using my profile. I did not post this and have no idea what it is. Debbie
