{"id":720,"date":"2010-10-01T19:00:32","date_gmt":"2010-10-02T03:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eirlysrhiannon.com\/wp\/?p=720"},"modified":"2012-02-27T11:24:44","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T19:24:44","slug":"about-the-blue-sequoias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.eirlysrhiannon.com\/wp\/the-blue-sequoias\/about-the-blue-sequoias","title":{"rendered":"about the blue sequoias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eirlysrhiannon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/3-Songs-Cover-Graphic.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eirlysrhiannon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/3-Songs-Cover-Graphic.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"3 Songs Cover Graphic\" width=\"432\" height=\"430\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-721\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.eirlysrhiannon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/3-Songs-Cover-Graphic.gif 432w, http:\/\/www.eirlysrhiannon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/3-Songs-Cover-Graphic-150x150.gif 150w, http:\/\/www.eirlysrhiannon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/3-Songs-Cover-Graphic-300x298.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/a><font-size=\"+1\"><span style=\"color: #000080\"><strong>about the blue sequoias<\/strong><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>The Blue Sequoias<\/em> are Eirlys Rhiannon and Rowan Armes.  We began playing music together in 2003, performing local shows in and near Bristol, UK &#8211; read some amusing reviews <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eirlysrhiannon.com\/wp\/reviews\/the-blue-sequoias-live-reviews\">here<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>In 2005 we recorded a demo CD, <em>3 Songs<\/em>, kindly reviewed by Toxic Pete <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eirlysrhiannon.com\/wp\/reviews\/the-blue-sequoias-3-songs-review\">here<\/a>.  <em>3 Songs<\/em> was recorded and mixed by Ian Popperwell, of EastPole Orchestra, and featured <em>Light Your Sky<\/em>, <em>Vertigo<\/em>, and <em>The Dance<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2006, we dropped the name <em>The Blue Sequoias <\/em>for the time being. This allowed Eirlys to play additional shows as a solo artist, while giving Rowan flexibility to play only selected dates, fitting around her other life endeavours.  We continued to play together and create musical arrangements as before.  <\/p>\n<p>2008 saw the completion of the album <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eirlysrhiannon.com\/wp\/category\/sleep\">Sleep<\/a>, which was recorded and produced by Eirlys, and released in her name, but which was primarily a presentation of our song arrangement collaborations.  Seven of the nine songs were already favourites with Blue Sequoias audiences, featuring Rowan&#8217;s distinctive fiddle and piano arrangements, and her melodic vocal harmonies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>about the blue sequoias The Blue Sequoias are Eirlys Rhiannon and Rowan Armes. We began playing music together in 2003, performing local shows in and near Bristol, UK &#8211; read some amusing reviews here. In 2005 we recorded a demo CD, 3 Songs, kindly reviewed by Toxic Pete here. 3 Songs was recorded and mixed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-blue-sequoias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eirlysrhiannon.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eirlysrhiannon.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eirlysrhiannon.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eirlysrhiannon.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eirlysrhiannon.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.eirlysrhiannon.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":966,"href":"http:\/\/www.eirlysrhiannon.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions\/966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eirlysrhiannon.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eirlysrhiannon.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eirlysrhiannon.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eirlysrhiannon.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}