Family Reunion Country: June 2012

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

We Won! We Won!

Family Reunion is proud to announce that FAMILY ALBUM has won the

2012 ICMA Award

for

Country Album of the Year!

You can check out the entire ICMA Awards show on The Nashville Network. Our part comes in at about 1:01:50.

Thanks to all the fans and judges who selected us for this incredible honor. We are absolutely thrilled, humbled, and amazed!

Friday, June 8, 2012

Family Reunion steps out in fashion!

Family Reunion was honored to be invited to play live at the "Experience Music & Fashion" show at the Hard Rock in Nashville on Wednesday, June 6th. Sadly, we were not able to coordinate our schedules to play the event. However, several of our songs were featured during the show which highlighted the fashions of world famous clothing designer, "Manuel." The event was headlined by Phil Vassar and featured several up and coming new country acts. In addition, proceeds from the event are going to benefit the “I’ll Fly Away Foundation”, formed to bring music education and preservation to school and college students throughout the US.

Meet the Band: Family Reunion

Cousin JD: (Vocals, Guitars, Tall Tales)

JD likes to tell everyone his initials stand for Jack Daniels or James Dean. I guess that’s where he started with his story telling. Luckily he tells better stories in his songs.

Cousin Carrie: (Vocals and Photo Ops.)

She thought we started calling her “Carrie” because she sounded like Carrie Underwood. But the truth is we called her “Kari” because she used to sound like a bad Karaoke singer. She’s much better now

Cousin Barbie: (Guitars, Background Vocals, Crowd Control)

Barbie is actually short for Trailerpark Barbie (we mean that in the nice way.) Even though she looks like a doll, you won’t find her in a pink dress or playing house. But she sure does know her way around a fret board.

Cousin Hollywood: (Bass, Background Vocals, Movie Magic)

None of us knows exactly where Hollywood lives. Whenever we ask, he just says “somewhere West of Texas.” But Hollywood is more a state of mind than a place anyway.

Cousin Slim: (Drums, Background Hollerin’, Party Favors)

To say that Slim is the life of the party is an understatement. Slim IS the party. He likes to party louder, faster and longer than anyone else, and that’s exactly how he plays drums too.

Cousin Tex: (Fiddle, Keyboards, Any Instrument Ever Made)

We’ve got lots of cousins from Texas, but oddly enough Tex isn’t one of them. But Tex knows a little about music, there’s not an instrument made that he can’t figure out how to play.