All the way from Bologna, Italy! Wheels Fargo and the Nightingale (formerly Wells Fargo and the Nightingale)’s an original Italian quintet that combines old genuine bluegrass music with the wild hillbilly and rockabilly sound proper of its founders.
The band was born on September 2006 as Wells Fargo & the Nightingale of a Wainer and Antonella’s (T-Model Boogie) idea, immediately realized with a third important element, Mauro aka Jim Singerof P-51 Airplanes. After some months of rehearsals the band debuts on summer 2007 as a quartet (6 strings banjo, rhythm guitar, double bass, washboard and four singing voices) and ads later on a key fifth member on the five strings banjo picking.
Now the final combo is a quartet composed by Antonella Tambakiotis (lead vocals and low-cost percussions!),
Wainer Rimondini (double bass and vocals), Mauro Jim Singer (guitar, banjitar and vocals) and Cousin Marcellus Ghirri on fab 5-strings banjo.
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