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Boonville —
Progressive rock band Clatter, based on a family farm near Lone Elm, will return to Boonville after seven years to hold workshops and demonstrations during a weekend of music and painting called Clatter and Splatter.
The band was in Boonville in 2004 to record their DVD 'Blinded in Boonville' that is a live recording of their performance.
Their distinct style of music that has taken the band to England and France can be called progressive rock with pop elements, said Amy Humphrey who is the band's bass guitarist--which anchors their music--and singer. Her partner Joseph Hayes is the drummer.
On Saturday, the two-member band will talk about the heavy drums, bass guitars and multiple amplifiers that they use for their kind of music that adds a dynamic note in the rural mid-Missouri music landscape dominated by country and bluegrass fiddles and banjos.
Humphrey also wants to underscore the importance of creative ability rather than looks in music industry.
"It is important to have positive role models, especially for girls, in music industry, emphasizing talent and practice over appearance or sexuality," Humphrey said.
The 43-year-old and her partner Hayes, 46, have been playing for the last 20 years ever since meeting at University of Kansas as students and launched their two-member band in 2003 with the CD Blinded by Vision. The album took one year to record.
"It was a few days after 9/11 and nobody wanted to record music," Humphrey said.
They also had a hard time finding the right producer to fit their vision the music. But once they cut their first album, Humphrey said they realized that there are others who like to listen to their songs. They toured 50,000 miles in the United States and Canada after the release.
The next album released in 2006 was called 'Monarch'.
The duo is now working on their third album called 'Garden of Whatever' and have written and composed five songs so far. They will play three of the songs at Clatter and Splatter on Saturday.
Before forming Clatter, Humphrey and Hayes belonged to Seattle-based band Clatter Beans and had toured the country with the group.
They moved to Missouri in 1995.
"We can tour more easily from Missouri because it's centrally located and we can be as loud as we can because no one lives around us," Humphrey said.
Progressive rock band Clatter, based on a family farm near Lone Elm, will return to Boonville after seven years to hold workshops and demonstrations during a weekend of music and painting called Clatter and Splatter.
The band was in Boonville in 2004 to record their DVD 'Blinded in Boonville' that is a live recording of their performance.
Their distinct style of music that has taken the band to England and France can be called progressive rock with pop elements, said Amy Humphrey who is the band's bass guitarist--which anchors their music--and singer. Her partner Joseph Hayes is the drummer.
On Saturday, the two-member band will talk about the heavy drums, bass guitars and multiple amplifiers that they use for their kind of music that adds a dynamic note in the rural mid-Missouri music landscape dominated by country and bluegrass fiddles and banjos.
Humphrey also wants to underscore the importance of creative ability rather than looks in music industry.
"It is important to have positive role models, especially for girls, in music industry, emphasizing talent and practice over appearance or sexuality," Humphrey said.
The 43-year-old and her partner Hayes, 46, have been playing for the last 20 years ever since meeting at University of Kansas as students and launched their two-member band in 2003 with the CD Blinded by Vision. The album took one year to record.
"It was a few days after 9/11 and nobody wanted to record music," Humphrey said.
They also had a hard time finding the right producer to fit their vision the music. But once they cut their first album, Humphrey said they realized that there are others who like to listen to their songs. They toured 50,000 miles in the United States and Canada after the release.
The next album released in 2006 was called 'Monarch'.
The duo is now working on their third album called 'Garden of Whatever' and have written and composed five songs so far. They will play three of the songs at Clatter and Splatter on Saturday.
Before forming Clatter, Humphrey and Hayes belonged to Seattle-based band Clatter Beans and had toured the country with the group.
They moved to Missouri in 1995.
"We can tour more easily from Missouri because it's centrally located and we can be as loud as we can because no one lives around us," Humphrey said.
