Sunday, October 26, 2014

The Piano Guys

I love "The Piano Guys", if any of you have not listened to them I highly recommend them. But about three weeks ago Zach bought me tickets to a concert that they were performing here in Rexburg! Score! So yesterday we were able to go and it was the best concert I have ever been to.
A little background on who they are: It is a band of four men who are LDS, they are from St. George, Utah and they combine classical music with music of today. So whenever you are listening to them try to see which two songs they paired together. But it was an absolutely amazing show. The two men that performed for us was the lead pianist, Jon Schmidt and the lead cellist, Steven Sharp Nelson (he cracked a lot of jokes about how he gets funny stares when asked which band he is a part of and he says the piano guys, because he does not play the piano ;) )
"Story of my Life"
"With or Without You"
Anyways, I just took a lot of videos, sorry they are sideways, I did not realize that the iphone had to be a certain way to get the video right side up. But sorry there are so many, I just couldn't narrow it down, they are soo good!


Frozen-"Let it Go"
Bourne Identity Theme with classical
Opening Song
Kung Fu Panda
Secrets
Titanium
Part 2
Viva La vida
Cello Song (solo and my favorite)
Now here are just two funny songs they put into the show.
So remember how I said they try to combine two songs, usually classical and modern, but sometimes it will just be two random songs so they said they were working on one that they thought would be amazing and could not believe that noone else had mashed them up together yet (joke) but the songs were the main theme on Phatom of the Opera and "Don't Worry, Be Happy"
It was entertaining.
The second funny song they did was Steven told a story about how his 9 year old son had come up to him one day and told him that he wanted to be a piano player. Well Steven, being a renowed cellist could not have that so he made a cool little movie for his son that involved two cellist battling it out in a star wars theme. The cello bow were light sabres.
After his son had watched them he told his dad that he did not want to play the piano anymore...he wanted to learn the accordion :)

Well again, sorry for all the videos, I just loved it so much.
PIANO GUYS! FALL 2014