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  • Genre: Roots Music

    Location Whitesburg, KY, US

    Profile Views: 56105

    Last Login: 2/23/2012

    Member Since 7/10/2006

    Website www.brettratliff.com

    Record Label June Appal Records

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    I grew up in Van Lear, KY, in the coalfields. After high school I took up with a bunch of ol' boys playing bluegrass around east KY and West Virginia at an assortment of regional festivals and venues. During this time I made a powerful connection with music and started getting deeper and deeper into the roots of mountain music. A whole new world opened up. I moved to Morehead, KY when I was twenty-four and attended Morehead State University studying video production and traditional music. I got a degree and took to the roads singing old mountain ballads and playing banjo and fiddle tunes. Though I've traveled and seen many wonderful places both on this continent and abroad, no place eased my countenance like being in east Kentucky. So I went in search of a community where I could play and teach mountain music. Whitesburg, KY has been a cultural hub in central Appalachia for many years and here I found a community of artist, activist, miners, God fearing people and hell-raisers. Resilient people doing what they have to in order to survive. I currently perform original, country and old time mountain music as a solo artist and with some great friends including Clack Mountain String Band, Rich and the Po' Folks, and sometimes the Dirk Powell Band. I also teach workshops, private lessons and mountain youth in Letcher County for an after school program called Pick and Bow. This is what I love to do. And even though the musicians struggle is greater here than in most places, there's nothing like watching the sun rise and set over southeast Kentucky to the low drones of an ancient fiddle or banjo tune. ________________________________________________________________ I have been featured as a solo artist and with bands at festivals and workshops such as: The Festival of American Fiddle Tunes (Port Townsend, WA), Sore Fingers Week (Oxfordshire, England), Cowan Creek Mountain Music School (Whitesburg, KY), Celtic Connections (Glasgow, Scotland), BlackPot Festival (Lafayette, LA), Old Town School of Folk Music (Chicago, IL), Clack Mountain Music Festival (Morehead, KY), White Oak Mountain Bluegrass Festival (Cleveland, TN), Great Lakes Folk Festival (East Lansing, MI), MerleFest (Wilkesboro, NC), Portland Old Time Gathering (Portland, OR) and many others.

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    everything. _________________________________________ ......

  • Sounds Like

    East Kentucky banjer music. Makes ya wanna stomp your foot on the floor and dance the old time way! Don't hold back now, life's too short to hold back.

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  • Pop Haydn

    Brett:

    Check out our new fundraising campaign for Pop Haydn's Post-Modern Medicine Show at Indiegogo.com

    We are trying to raise money to put our show on at a regular monthly basis at old vaudeville theaters in the Los Angeles area.

    Please take time to LIKE our campaign page, or SHARE it or TWEET it. It helps a lot! Thanks for your support!

    ...and please visit my Blog: Pop's Soapbox

    Pop Haydn is a Los Angeles magician, a past vice-president of the world-famous Magic Castle in Hollywood, and a six-time winner of "Magician of the Year" at the Magic Castle.

    Pop Haydn's Website

    10 months ago
  • Pop Haydn


     

    We are giving away free campaign kits for the American Confidence Party, including a large button, membership card and a campaign poster postcard. Shipping is free as well. While they last:

    FREE CAMPAGN Kit!.

    and please visit my Blog: Pop's Soapbox

    Pop Haydn is a Los Angeles magician, a past vice-president of the world-famous Magic Castle in Hollywood, and a six-time winner of "Magician of the Year" at the Magic Castle.

    Pop Haydn's Website

    1 year ago
  • Pop Haydn

    We have just totally revamped my YouTube Channel and added a number of great new performance videos. There are also playlists on Vaudeville, circus and sideshow, burlesque, magic, and medicine show:

     Pop Haydn's YouTube Channel.

    You can find photos, video and other information about my Post-Mosdern Medicine Show, my Radio-Medicine Show, and my magic on my website:

    PopHaydn.com

    and my Blog:

    Pop's Soapbox

    Pop Haydn is an award-winning Los Angeles magician, a past vice-president of the Magic Castle in Hollywood. He is originally from Clarkesville, Tennessee.

    1 year ago
  • Pop Haydn

    Pop Haydn's Radio-Medicine Show is now being distributed by Jagger Peyton Entertainment Group in association with Radio-Submit.

    For more information about the show, and to hear samples of the show, please check out our website:

    Pop Haydn's Radio-Medicine Show

    and our Blog:

    Pop's Soapbox

    Jagger Peyton Entertainment Group

    Radio Submit

    Pop Haydn is a professional magician in Los Angeles, as well as an inventor, medicine man, comedian, actor, raconteur, singer, dancer, and certifiable genius.

    1 year ago
  • Pop Haydn

    As you may know, Pop Haydn is running for president of the United States this coming year, as standard bearer for the Greater American Confidence Party. We want to help put confidence back in the national government--professional confidence--not the amateur hour we've been getting.

    Don't be dissappointed! Vote for someone you know will do exactly what you expect him to do. If you vote for Pop Haydn, you will get the government you deserve.

    Find out more about Pop's campaign and the American Confidence Party here:  American Confidence Party

    We are giving away free campaign kits to anyone who signs up for our mailing list:  Pop's Website !

    The kit includes a large campaing button, a campaign poster postcard, and membership card in the American Confidence Party.

    Pop Haydn is a full-time professional magician in Los Angeles, and a past Vice-President of the Magic Castle in Hollywood. He has been named performing "Magician of the Year" at the Magic Castle six times.

    Pop has a blog at ..Pop's Soapbox, and a  new Forum at Pop's Forum Here he will discuss magic, steampunk, renaissance faire, pirates, art, politics, and all things burlesque, sideshow, circus, carnival, vaudeville and live variety arts.

    We also have a new store,  where we sell memorabilia of the Medicine Show, and of Pop Haydn: Pop's General Merchandise

    1 year ago
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    Howdy Ladies and Gentlemen,

    Come join The Haunted Brothers on Facebook
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    We'll be happy to see you there..

    All the best

    1 year ago
  • Pop Haydn

    Pop Haydn is a full-time professional magician in Los Angeles, and a past Vice-President of the Magic Castle in Hollywood. He has been named performing "Magician of the Year" at the Magic Castle six times. You can find out more about him here:  Pop's Website !

    There is video of Pop's amazing magic, music and comedy at Pop's Youtube Channel You will also find videos of Pop's performance at the World Steam Expo in Dearborn, June, 2011.

    We also have lots of video of the Pop Haydn Post-Modern Medicine Show and of Pop's Magic Shows, as well as the True Story of how Pop Haydn came to be in the 21st Century at Pop's Website.

    Pop has a new blog at Pop's Soapbox, and a  new Forum at Pop's Forum Here he will discuss magic, steampunk, renaissance faire, pirates, art, politics, and all things burlesque, sideshow, circus, carnival, vaudeville and live variety arts.

    We also have a new store,  where we sell memorabilia of the Medicine Show, and of Pop Haydn: Pop's General Merchandise

    Pop is an incredible entertainer, comedian, magician and musician. His Victorian gentleman character, an eccentric time-displaced vaudevillian, is comfortable in any environment, and fits into any themed private party, corporate event, sales meeting, trade show or theatrical revue.

    1 year ago
  • Pop Haydn


    We are very excited to announce "Pop Haydn's Radio-Medicine Show" is on the air! It is the cure tor the 21st Century! It'll make you feel better!

    This show combines music, comedy, and fun in an hour-long, for-broadcast, syndicated radio show distributed by The Jagger Peyton Entertainmemt Group ( www.jaggerpeyton.com ).

    You can hear our entire first show at our new page:

    www.myspace.com/PopHaydnShow

    Please add us as a friend to keep up with all the new developments in this project.

    More information is available at:

    www.PopHaydn.com

    2 years ago
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    2 years ago
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    Hi.

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Bio:

I grew up in Van Lear, KY, in the coalfields. After high school I took up with a bunch of ol' boys playing bluegrass around east KY and West Virginia at an assortment of regional festivals and venues. During this time I made a powerful connection with music and started getting deeper and deeper into the roots of mountain music. A whole new world opened up. I moved to Morehead, KY when I was twenty-four and attended Morehead State University studying video production and traditional music. I got a degree and took to the roads singing old mountain ballads and playing banjo and fiddle tunes. Though I've traveled and seen many wonderful places both on this continent and abroad, no place eased my countenance like being in east Kentucky. So I went in search of a community where I could play and teach mountain music. Whitesburg, KY has been a cultural hub in central Appalachia for many years and here I found a community of artist, activist, miners, God fearing people and hell-raisers. Resilient people doing what they have to in order to survive. I currently perform original, country and old time mountain music as a solo artist and with some great friends including Clack Mountain String Band, Rich and the Po' Folks, and sometimes the Dirk Powell Band. I also teach workshops, private lessons and mountain youth in Letcher County for an after school program called Pick and Bow. This is what I love to do. And even though the musicians struggle is greater here than in most places, there's nothing like watching the sun rise and set over southeast Kentucky to the low drones of an ancient fiddle or banjo tune. ________________________________________________________________ I have been featured as a solo artist and with bands at festivals and workshops such as: The Festival of American Fiddle Tunes (Port Townsend, WA), Sore Fingers Week (Oxfordshire, England), Cowan Creek Mountain Music School (Whitesburg, KY), Celtic Connections (Glasgow, Scotland), BlackPot Festival (Lafayette, LA), Old Town School of Folk Music (Chicago, IL), Clack Mountain Music Festival (Morehead, KY), White Oak Mountain Bluegrass Festival (Cleveland, TN), Great Lakes Folk Festival (East Lansing, MI), MerleFest (Wilkesboro, NC), Portland Old Time Gathering (Portland, OR) and many others.

Member Since:

July 10, 2006

Influences:

everything. _________________________________________ Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket

Sounds Like:

East Kentucky banjer music. Makes ya wanna stomp your foot on the floor and dance the old time way! Don't hold back now, life's too short to hold back.

Record Label:

June Appal Records

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