NYS Music Spotlight | Benny Bleu
209 videos • 51 views • by by Nothing to See Here Shining a spotlight on Benny Bleu. https://bennybleu.com/ In an infinitely expanding universe nearly fourteen billion years in the making, let’s zoom in on a sleepy hillside in the Finger Lakes, where Benny Bleu Haravitch’s banjo rings out in harmony with it all. Through his lens as a geologist, he contemplates ages of ecological relationships in his folk music. Haravitch’s songwriting is compassionate and patient, but his instrumental offerings are equally profound. A compelling modern clawhammer banjoist, his playing is like a marching band – the bugle melodies in lock-step with the drum corps. On ‘March of the Mollusk’, a new album of mellow banjo tunes, Benny Bleu invites us to walk to the cadence of a snail through the woods, slow and in the flow. For only by softening our pace could we hope to answer the conundrum of modern existence together. His career is dedicated to purveying honest acoustic roots music, not for the sake of revival, but as a living, breathing community experience in the here and now. An award winning banjo player, and a cherished songwriter, Benny Bleu lives up to the truest form of folk music – made by the folks, for the folks. His hypothesis: building connections with nature, each other, and our history through music makes for a richer future. Simple, testable, repeatable.