The Troubadours videos - live in USA

[Ivan Pongracic Jr]

Hello all:

I wanted to briefly introduce myself and share a few videos with you. I have not been active in the Shadow Music internet world for the past few years, but I was fairly involved in the nineties and earlier this decade. I wrote the liner notes for the American Shadows' tribute CD "An Evening in Nivram" which came out in '97, and played on two tracks on that CD ("The Lute Number" by the Troubadours and "The Savage" by the Space Cossacks). I continue to be a huge Shadows fan to this day, one of the great passions of my life.

Between 2000 and 2005 my dad and I had an active Shadows tribute band by the name the Troubadours, based in Indiana, and we played quite a few shows around the Midwestern USA, as well as the 2001 and 2003 Shadowmania North America events (one of the biggest thrills of my life was being able to hang out with Bruce - and Licorice in '03 - at those events!).

There have been four videos posted on YouTube of us playing live, and you can see them all at this playlist:

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p ... 26A4F9CEEB\

Or you can take a look at them individually here:

National Provincial Samba
Round and Round
36-24-36
Temptation

The first three were from Chicago in 2003, and the fourth one was from Indianapolis in 2004. We didn't play perfect on any of them, but it's not too bad. Hope you'll enjoy them!

Best regards, and looking forward to being a part of this community. Merry Christmas and happy new year!
Ivan

[Arpeggio]

Hi Ivan Jr,
Thanks for posting the videos - absolutely superb! Wow - what an awesome father / son, rhythm / lead combination. Loved it!

Bests....Rob