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The Flemming Fold goes to Chicago, Florida and Arizona!!
We are currently scheduling tours to some great cities. Chicago in June, Florida in September, and Arizona in February. It can't get much better!
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* Thanks to Phil Nusbaum of "Bluegrass
Saturday Morning" on KBEM 88.5 FM for playing our music on
the radio! Please tune in to Phil's program every Saturday from 7:00 AM
'til 12:00 noon.
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Please be sure to check out our NEW VIDEOS
on the "Music & Video" page!
on the "Music & Video" page!
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CD RELEASE!!!
The Flemming Fold CD entitled "If Dreams There Be" is now available! Visit our online store to order your CD -OR- go to Ebay! ______________________________
Ladies and gentleman, George has left the building... or at least my website!
For around 8 months I had been playing George Harrison in the Beatles tribute band, "A Hard Day's Night." I am both sad and relieved to report that I left the band in December. We had the usual irreconcilable differences, but that being said, I'd like to also say that "A Hard Day's Night" rocks!! Please go check them out whenever you get a chance. I apologize to all of the fans!
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SAD NEWS...
After 20 or so years as Eden Prairie's premier music school, The Music Studios of Jan Erickson has closed its doors. How sad!! I had taught guitar at MSJE for 12 years.
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"The Flemming Fold" consists of my 7 and 9 year-old daughters, my wife, Sandra, and me! We have had so much fun performing in more than 225 concerts to date, and we are looking forward to much more in 2011!
Our first CD is now available!! Vist our online store to order your CD.
Click this link to check out the Flemming Fold website!
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One of my former students, Casey Carlson, was on American Idol in February, 2009! She made it into the top 36 contestants. Way to go, Casey!!!
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About Troy
Troy Flemming ranks high among the many talented acoustic musicians on the Twin Cities scene today. He is an accomplished fingerstyle guitarist as well as a versatile vocalist and yodeler. Troy performs for audiences as often as possible in all types of settings. As a longtime teacher, he has a passion for passing on his musical knowledge to others.
Troy grew up in the Minneapolis suburb of St. Louis Park, MN. He was raised on a steady diet of novelty songs, Alpine yodeling, train sounds, old-time music, and rock'n'roll. At fifteen he learned his first fingerpickin' guitar tune, Roy Buchanan's "Adventures of Brer Rabbit and Tar Baby," and was hooked!
At 18, Troy's guitar education continued with a year at McNally Smith College of Music (called "The Guitar Center" back in 1987). Troy spent the next 10 years in a string of bands, usually as lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter.
In 1995, Troy went back to school and began working on a degree in music. He has studied with James Flegel, O. Nicholas Raths, and James McGuire on Classical guitar.
After surviving Y2K and having two babies, Troy's long dormant passion for Alpine music and yodeling came bubbling to the surface and quickly became a full blown obsession! Though his yodeling goals may be a little lofty (he plans to eventually take over the title of "Der Jodelkönig" [Yodel King] from his hero, Franzl Lang!), he is determined, and you never know what ten or twenty years hard work might produce!!
These days Troy stays very busy. He performs 2 to 3 times a week both solo and with his family group, "The Flemming Fold," on the radio, in festivals, nightclubs, senior communities, restaurants, and at churches. Additionally, he teaches as many as 40 guitar students a week, arranges music and records whenever possible, practices yodeling, studies the German language, and raises his wonderful daughters with his amazing wife, Sandra.
