{"id":1451,"date":"2022-07-15T15:30:19","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T15:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bluegrass\/?p=1451"},"modified":"2022-07-15T15:30:35","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T15:30:35","slug":"circus-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bluegrass\/circus-9\/","title":{"rendered":"CIRCUS #9\ufffc"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/circusnumbernine.com\/\">Website<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/circusnine\/\">Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Members:<\/strong><br \/>Thomas Cassell<br \/>Matthew Davis<br \/>Vince Ilagan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Circus No. 9 is Tennessee\u2019s own Progressive Bluegrass outfit, blurring the lines between Bluegrass, Jazz, and Rock. Described as \u201cJohn Hartford meets John Coltrane,\u201d the group has appeared alongside artists including David Grisman, Bryan Sutton, Larry Keel, among others. Comprised of musicians Thomas Cassell, Vince Ilagan, and Ben Garnett, Circus No. 9 is one of the most exciting new bands on the acoustic music scene today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCircus No. 9 represents everything that\u2019s good about the new generation of acoustic music. These guys already exhibit a maturity and musicianship that has me thinking we\u2019re going to be hearing great stuff from them for a long time!\u201d \u2013 Bryan Sutton<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the mandolin is Virginia\u2019s Thomas Cassell, a now Tennessee transplant. Cassell is the winner of the 2016 Rockygrass Mandolin contest, and has performed on stage beside artists including the Bryan Sutton Band, Billy Strings, and more. He holds a Bachelor\u2019s degree from East Tennessee State University in bluegrass studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Holding down the low end for the band is Knoxville\u2019s Vince Ilagan, also holding a Bass Performance degree from the University of Tennessee and years of studio and touring experience. Ilagan has performed with artists including Larkin Poe, Justin Townes Earle, Jeff Sipe, Scott Miller, and many others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ben Garnett is a Nashville-based guitarist, composer, improviser, and educator. Originally from Arlington, TX, he graduated from the University of North Texas in 2016 with a Bachelor\u2019s degree in jazz studies. A product of his 21st-century upbringing, Ben embraces a genre-bending, \u201cin the cracks,\u201d musical aesthetic, fluently drawing on the traditions of folk, jazz, bluegrass, classical, and rock music in his compositions and improvisations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WebsiteFacebook Members:Thomas CassellMatthew DavisVince Ilagan Circus No. 9 is Tennessee\u2019s own Progressive Bluegrass outfit, blurring the lines between Bluegrass, Jazz, and Rock. Described as \u201cJohn Hartford meets John Coltrane,\u201d the group has appeared alongside artists including David Grisman, Bryan Sutton, Larry Keel, among others. Comprised of musicians Thomas Cassell, Vince Ilagan, and Ben Garnett, Circus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":1420,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1451","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-blog","9":"has-featured-image"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bluegrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bluegrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bluegrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bluegrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bluegrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bluegrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bluegrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bluegrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bluegrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bluegrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}