Multi-hyphenated, Sam writes, shoots, edits, directs and engineers. geek and then getting a degree in human communication, Sam has always worked both the technical and content sides of production. of Broadcast Production Services at Prudential Financial where his full-time job was to build and run an in-house production facility, while directing and editing all the company's national television commercials. Since 1979 Sam Small has been telling stories in commercials and documentaries, delivering complicated content in entertaining and engaging ways.įor Sam’s last eight years in Manhattan, before moving to Maui, he was V.P. The raw multi-camera video from three of Gramp’s solo performances were given over to Sam Small of Small Wonder Video Services who edited and released ‘Sauteed To A Fine Crisp’. A psychedelically inspired feast was served by Chez Ray Sewal. “Funhouse” starred vaudevillians Dmitri Karamazov of the Flying Karamazov Brothers, Rebecca Chace, Cathy Sutherland and the UMO Ensemble, and featured Baby Gramps and Christian Swenson, among others. Stage show written by Magid teleplay written by Magid and Alex Metcalf musical direction by Mark Ettinger.
Conceived and directed by Paul Magid and Ron W. This video was stitched together from three performances that were filmed at “Funhouse”: A Contemporary Theatre, in conjunction with TheatreVision and ShadowCatcher Entertainment. Sauteed To A Fine Crisp Originally released on VHS in 1999 Re-released on DVD together with “SomeDemos” in 2006.Venues he performs at vary from intimate coffeehouses and pubs, to large concert halls, theaters, and festivals. He appeals to a wide range of audiences from folk to jamband to punk to old timey traditional and to kids of all ages. He plays an acoustic antique National Steel guitar and sings his own unique arrangements of rags, jazz, & blues songs from the 20's & 30's and many originals with wordplay, humor, and throat singing. The Rogues Gallery CD, produced by Johnny Depp and Hal Wilner in connection with The Pirates of the Caribbean film, landed Baby Gramps on the David Letterman Show.īaby Gramps is a high energy humorously entertaining performer with an endless repertoire. He is credited with making Seattle audiences aware of old blues and novelty songs that the rest of the world has mostly forgotten.īaby Gramps toured England and Ireland this past summer (2008) as part of the Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys CD Concert Tour with Tim Robbins (actor), Martha and Rufus Wainright, Jenny Muldaur (Maria and Geoff's daughter), Lou Reed, The Watersons, Martin Carthy and Eliza, Suzanne Vega, Ralph Steadman, and many other internationally know performers.
“Baby Gramps’s performances on “Rogue’s Gallery” (Anti), a two-disc set of sea chanteys produced by Hal Willner, are among the album’s best, and that’s saying a lot: among the other contributors are Sting, Lou Reed, Lucinda Williams, Bono, Bryan Ferry, Nick Cave, Van Dyke Parks and Bill Frisell.” - Ben Ratlif, The New York TimesĪccording to an article in Seattle Metropolitan Magazine, Baby Gramps is acknowledged as one of the top 50 most influential musicians in the last 100 years along with Ray Charles, Jelly Roll Morton, Ernestine Anderson, John Cage, Bill Frisell, Jimi Hendrix, Quincy Jones, The Wailers, The Ventures, Sound Garden, and Pearl Jam. His voice is a cross between Popeye the Sailor and a Didgeridoo and the plinkity plink of his VERY worn National steel guitar, sounds like a wind up jack in the box. His singing styles include throat singing. His busy and unusual guitar style includes flat and finger picking, and "chording" with the back of his hand and his elbow.
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Read Full Bio Baby Gramps plays a mixture of styles and eras including traditional blues, children's and labor songs, and his own compositions. Baby Gramps plays a mixture of styles and eras including traditional blues, children's and labor songs, and his own compositions.
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