Holden
Young & HY3 of Boulder, Colorado are defining a new way to
experience the sounds of the power-trio.
(scroll down for full-bio or visit the About the Artist page)
(scroll down for full-bio or visit the About the Artist page)
The Holden Young Trio began performing shows in 2006. After time in Boston, Nashville, Maine & New Orleans Holden Young found his musical home in Colorado. The trio has performed consistently since their beginning and have shared the stage with with the Disco Biscuits, JJ Grey & Mofro, the Motet, Outformation, Chris Littlefield (Karl Denson's Tiny Universe), Yamn, Equaleyes, and many many of the local and regional acts in the area. Currently, HY3 are recording new tracks and touring Colorado to California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and back again.
"With high energy beats and hip
swinging grooves, the Holden Young Trio is a fun show to be a witness
to. You can count on two sets of high energy instrumental work at a HY3
show. "
- Jenna Stecker, Mousike Magazine (Feb 09, 2010)
But it all began many years before in 1998....
- Jenna Stecker, Mousike Magazine (Feb 09, 2010)
But it all began many years before in 1998....
Holden Young went to Berklee College of Music after growing up in rural Maine. His knowledge of music was limited but his ambition was strong. He desired to live a creative life inspired by Kerouac and Thoreau as well as the Eastern philosophies of Taoism and the great Buddha. But as a musician, he was very inexperienced upon arriving at Berklee. His focus became world music (especially Afro-beat, Reggae, Brazilian, and Eastern Indian music) and guitar performance while he continued to fill-in the gaps of his musical know-how. His teachers included Wayne Krantz (Steely Dan), Mark Walker (Oregon), Jaime Haddad (Paul Simon) and Larry Baoine (Berklee Guitar Dept President) who shaped his young and undeveloped talent.
From Boston, Holden travelled to Nashville to begin his professional career. With no experience beyond Berklee, Nashville was the perfect stomping ground to learn the ways of professional music. It was here he met sound engineer Ben Easley (Engineer for Leon Russell) & percussionist Tomas Anderson who recorded his first album in their home studio just 20 min south of Nashville. Joining him was trumpeter Chris Littlefield (Karl Denson's Tiny Universe), Mikie Martel (the Coolin' System), and bassist Travis Vance (Oblio) of whom both Vance & Martel were Berklee compatriots. This album Not Much & Everything was a pallete of sounds that became the grand total of HY3 in later years. It included 2 acoustic songwriter numbers, 2 rock/pop/funk anthems, and a twenty-minute space exploration of technotronic soundscapes.
"A quick listen to a few songs by the
Colorado-based Holden Young Trio might have you scratching your head.
Is it funk, folk, rock or reggae? But if the urge to pin the group’s
sound down gets to you, you might take a cue from one of its song
titles: “Don’t Think Too Much.”"
- Emily Donahue, Independent Record (Sep 18, 2008)
- Emily Donahue, Independent Record (Sep 18, 2008)
From Nashville, Holden was limited by the live music options in the South and feeling trapped. It was then that Hurricane Katrina hit the Southern Coast. His roommate received a job-offer from a construction firm working in Louisiana & Mississippi on the Blue Tarp Project and Holden signed-on. His team was the first in many areas as they moved around installing blue tarps on salvaegable houses. He hoped to save enough money to finish his nearly completed album, but after 2 months of working 10-hour days he was never paid. Despite promise after promise to be compensated, Holden never received a dime until months later (when a check for $300 for 2 months work arrived from the US Government). When his money ran out Holden had to make a move.
It was then that Holden heard of an opportunity to move to Colorado where he was to create the Holden Young Trio...
Since starting the group in Steamboat, Holden has taken the band to some of the best venues and performed well over 100 shows a year for the past 4 years. Some of the venues that have hosted the group are
Fox Theater (Boulder, CO), Tatanka Festival (Boulder, CO), Trilogy (Boulder, CO), Mishawaka Amphitheater (Bellvue, CO), Hodi's Half Note (Ft. Collins, CO), Cervantes (Denver, CO), 320 South/Sherpa & Yetis (Breckenridge, CO), the Goat (Keystone, CO), Fat Tire Bike Week (Crested Butte) Mahogany Ridge (Steamboat Springs, CO) Downstairs (Park City, UT), Mountain Stages (Salt Lake, UT), Woody's (Moab, UT), Whiskey Jacques (Ketchum, ID) Farmer Brown's (Meridian, ID), the REEF (Boise, ID), Terrapin Station (Boise, ID), John's Alley (Moscow, ID), Love Your Mother Earth Festival (Lolo, MT), Top Hat (Missoula, MT), Zebra Lounge (Bozeman, MT), 43 North (Jackson, WY), The Wort (Jackson, WY), Government Camp (Mt. Hood, OR), Silver Moon (Bend, OR), Luckey's (Eugene, OR), Music in the Park (Sequim, WA), 4th Ave Alehouse (Olympia, WA), The Middle East (Boston, MA) Roxbury Theatre (Roxbury, MA) Berklee College of Music (Boston, MA) Tammany Hall (Worcester, MA) 12th & Porter (Nashville, TN) Mercy Lounge (Nashville, TN) Windows on the Cumberland (Nashville, TN)
Rounding out the trio is an ever-changing cast of characters from Colorado and beyond. Billy Franklin and Eric Rolls being the original line-up, Holden has also hosted Stu Crair, Chris Misner, Adrian Engfer, Luke Emig, Zack Scott, Ryan Decker, Chris Mazur, Adam Segalis, Carl Sorensen as players in the trio. Keeping the band going is his main motivation and the result is a group that has travelled to Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, Oregon, Washington and California as part of the grassroots music scene.
HOLDEN YOUNG
HY3 - (noun) a Boulder based Funk/Rock outfit featuring Holden Young, a.k.a. FunkyBeatSoulGuitarist
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Please contact us at Atman Roots Productions for any additional information regarding music downloads, purchases, upcoming shows, bulk glow sticks, funny uses of duct tape and booking at:
HOLDEN@HOLDENYOUNGMUSIC.COM
