Vitamin String Quartet

Jennie Abrahamson's full upcoming album "Gemini Gemini", UK release 27th of March.

6 Lake Geneva

Starts up with acoustic mix of banjo, ukulele, baritone ukulele, then ends up with a electric mashup

Bounce

Sirens

To Love Someone

Ocean by Ocean

The Fog I Was Lost In

You are welcome to download and share "Tattoo":
A song about the Holocaust. Chosen by the government of the Netherlands to represent their country during the European celebration of the 50th year since WW II ended. Admired by Elie Wiesel. And now, a slap in the face to Trump and his administration, who don't dare utter the word "Jew" or the phrase "anti-Semitism" as they pretend to care about Holocaust Remembrance Day. 
To my friends who say "His son-in-law is Jewish. It's okay." I say - it is NOT okay. It is a disgrace. Steve Bannon is drafting the executive orders for our country, while the  ostensible leader of the free world spends his time complaining on Twitter and watching TV. 
I remember riding in a cab with my former manager forty years ago, when I was twenty-five. The newscaster commented that gay people should not be permitted to teach in the schools, and my manager said "They shouldn't be allowed around young children. Absolutely correct." 
In confusion, I said "But... I'M gay." And her response? "Oh, but you're one of the 'good ones'."
There will always be those who say "Oh, but you're one of the good Jews" "the good blacks" "the good gays". Do not believe that will exempt you from the knock in the night.

TATTOO
(Janis Ian)

Her new name was tattooed to her wrist
It was longer than the old one
Sealed in the silence with a fist
This night will be a cold one
Centuries live in her eyes
Destiny laughs over jack-booted thighs
“Work makes us free” says the sign
Nothing leaves here alive
Tattoo

She steps out of line to the left, and her father to the right
One sides a cold, clean death. The other is an endless night
Gold from a grandmother’s tooth. 
Mountains of jewelry and toys. 
piled in the corners, mailed across the borders
Presents for the girls and boys.
Presents for the girls and boys
Tattoo

It gets darker every night
Spread-eagled out among the stars, she says
"Somewhere in this tunnel lives a light
"Still my beating heart
"I have never known a man
"What man will want me now?
"Am I still alive, somehow?
"If I can survive, somehow
"Tattooed"

Soldiers from the other side liberated them at dawn
Gave her water, gave her life. She still had all her clothes on
She lived until she died. Empty as the autumn leaves that fly
Surgeons took the mark, but they could not take it far
It was written on her heart
Written on her empty heart
Tattooed

Breaking Silence

Tattoo

Oh River out now https://awal.lnk.to/OhRiver

Oh River

From the album “Next Time” out now.
Stream or purchase: http://smarturl.it/GLNextTime

Royal Empress

Partly Cloudy

Cover of the Scottish traditional, Wild Mountain Thyme. With musicians John Calvin Abney, Kinsey Charles, and David Leach.

Wild Mountain Thyme

VSQ Performs the Hits of 2016, Vol. 2

Cheap Thrills

Can't Stop the Feeling!

Let It Go

VSQ Performs the Hits of 2013, Vol. 1

Get Lucky

Don't Let Me Down

One Dance

The Great Migration

Broken River

Los Angeles, California serves as home base for the concept group called Vitamin String Quartet. The group is made up of studio musicians who are brought together to interpret and record orchestra style covers of music from all types of genres ranging metal, techno, country, pop, rock and hip-hop dance music. While the quartet uses a wide assortment of artists and instruments, one fairly constant member of the group is violinist Tom Tally. Tally has been intimately involved in the composing, arranging and conduction of many songs on approximately 50 of the albums that have been recorded by the group. While the group is referred to as a string quartet, the reality is that more individuals are usually involved, using instruments such as violins, cellos, percussion, brass and woodwinds. The group was originally brought together in 1999 as an experimental project. They wanted to determine the effects of using classical style instruments to create new and different sounds on popular recordings. Early on, the FM broadcast station WWHK in Concord, NH would play the group's music 24 hours a day, every day, for a period of time. The popularity of the group's music has led to the music being featured on TV and in the movies. Credits include So You Think You Can Dance (2008), TV show The Vampire Diaries (2010), the 100th episode of Gossip Girl and the fifth season finale of Modern Family (2014). Throughout the years, the group has been involved in the recording of over 200 different albums. In 2009, the group stepped out of the box a bit and recorded some original material provided by some of the various musicians on the album Per_Versions.

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