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Energize your next event with live music from Ramblin’ Pilgrim! Whether you need quiet acoustic background music to enhance the ambience for your guests, or singalong favorites to get the crowd participating, Ramblin’ Pilgrim can deliver. We perform acoustic interpretations (sometimes with pre-recorded backing tracks) of classic and alternative rock favorites, along with some Motown, Singer/Songwriter, and Yacht Rock hits spanning the 1960s to today. With strong female and male vocals, we cover all your favorite artists - and we can add requested songs to our set list as well. We can bring our own P.A. to provide sound for smaller venues at no extra cost.
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Write a reviewPrice range: $500 to $1500 dependent on several factors
Languages: English, Spanish
Gig length: 60 - 180 minutes
RAMBLIN’ PILGRIM is built around a core group of two vocalists/instrumentalists, but for certain events and venues the group can include additional musicians for a group of up to six. The show usually opens with a stripped-down acoustic (‘unplugged’) set of music and then builds in instrument arrangement throughout the set (including the use of pre-recorded backing tracks for a fuller sound when only the smaller group is performing). For smaller events and/or shorter sets, the group can perform the entire show in an acoustic format, keeping the focus on the group's strong multi-part vocal harmonies.
The set includes well-known classics as well as lesser-known hidden gems from the group’s favorite artists, and often features one or more of the group’s original pieces, reflecting the group’s wide range of musical influences.
RAMBLIN’ PILGRIM can provide its own P.A. when called for, such as in smaller, more intimate venues or private events.
RAMBLIN’ PILGRIM brings together many years of collective musical experience to deliver their audience an exciting and enjoyable set of favorites spanning decades from the 1960s to the present (in some cases reaching back even further in time for vintage Appalachian and Southern Gospel classics). The vocalists and multi-instrumentalists who make up the group have all performed in many live and studio projects over the years, including having worked together in the bluegrass gospel group The Ramblin’ Redeemed and performing together on the worship team at The Orchard church in Barrington, Illinois. Although the focus is on acoustic instruments and rich vocal harmonies, the group augments their live performance with backing tracks to enhance the overall sound for part of the show. Their set list includes a wide range of artists, styles, genres, and eras and is certain to bring back memories - (the group also sprinkles in some original numbers that are sure to create new memories as well). Every show offers something for everyone in the audience.
If necessary, we can supply our own P.A. for small- to mid-size venues. However, we prefer if the venue has a P.A. We have modest requirements - depending on group size per performance. Usually 2-4 microphones, several acoustic instrument inputs, a keyboard (stereo input), and a computer or sequencer (stereo input) for backing tracks. We can bring our own DIs if necessary.
OUR SET LIST varies depending on the event, venue, and personnel; and we are constantly expanding the set list. Here are some of the better-known songs presently in the rotation:
(Note: Scroll down for our list of *CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN, WORSHIP, and GOSPEL songs for Church and related events)
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AMERICA: I Need You; Sister Golden Hair
The BEATLES: Eight Days a Week; I've Got a Feeling; Blackbird; Dear Prudence; Two of Us; Here Comes the Sun; Can't Buy Me Love; Hello Goodbye; Let it Be; Etc.
BLONDIE: The Tide is High
BOB DYLAN: You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go; Simple Twist of Fate; Seven Curses; Like a Rolling Stone; Don't Think Twice It's All Right; Tangled Up in Blue; Shelter from the Storm; My Back Pages; Mr. Tambourine Man
The CARS: Drive
The CRANBERRIES: Dreams
CROOKED STILL: Ain't No Grave
CROSBY, STILLS, & NASH: Helplessly Hoping; Our House; Wasted on the Way; Southern Cross
The CURE: In Between Days; Just Like Heaven
CYNDI LAUPER: Time After Time
DAVID BOWIE: Space Oddity
DAVID GRAY: Babylon
The DECEMBERISTS: June Hymn; Dear Avery; Rise to Me
DELTA RAE: Dance in the Graveyard
DOLLY PARTON: Jolene; Islands in the Stream
DON McLEAN: American Pie
ED SHEERAN: Perfect
ELTON JOHN: Don't Go Breaking My Heart
The EURYTHMICS: Here Comes the Rain Again; Right By Your Side
FLEETWOOD MAC: Dreams; Silver Springs; I Don't Want to Know; You Make Loving Fun
GENESIS: Throwing It All Away; Follow You Follow Me
GRAM PARSONS & EMMYLOU HARRIS: Love Hurts
The GRATEFUL DEAD: Friend of the Devil; Ripple; The Race is On; Sugar Magnolia; Uncle John's Band; Dire Wolf; Sugaree
HANK WILLIAMS: I Saw the Light
JANIS JOPLIN: Me and Bobby McGee
JASON MRAZ: I'm Yours
JIMMY BUFFETT: Come Monday; Margaritaville; Son of a Son of a Sailor; Volcano
JOHNNY CASH: He Turned the Water Into Wine; Ring of Fire
JOHNNY NASH: I Can See Clearly Now
JUDY COLLINS: Both Sides Now
LED ZEPPELIN: Going to California; Ramble On
The MONKEES: I'm a Believer; Listen to the Band; Pleasant Valley Sunday
PETE TOWNSHEND: North Country Girl
PETER GABRIEL: Solsbury Hill
PINK FLOYD: Wish You Were Here; Mother
The ROLLING STONES: Angie; As Tears Go By
SARAH JAROSZ: Ring Them Bells; Where the Soul of Man Never Dies
SHAWN COLVIN: Every Little Thing (He) Does is Magic; You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
SHERYL CROW: The First Cut is the Deepest
SIMON & GARFUNKEL: Sounds of Silence; Punky's Dilemma; Mrs. Robinson; Cecilia; Leaves that are Green; The Boxer; Feelin' Groovy
SINEAD O'CONNOR: Black Boys on Mopeds
SINEAD LOHAN: No Mermaid; Out of the Woods; Whatever it Takes
SING STREET: To Find You
SNOW PATROL: Chasing Cars
STEVIE NICKS & TOM PETTY: Stop Draggin' My Heart Around
The SUNDAYS: Here's Where the Story Ends
SUPERTRAMP: Give a Little Bit; Even in the Quietest Moments
TEARS FOR FEARS: Head Over Heels
TOM PETTY: The Best of Everything; Listen to Her Heart
VAMPIRE WEEKEND - Unbelievers
VAN MORRISON: Crazy Love; Brown-Eyed Girl; Into the Mystic
The WHO: I'm One; Squeeze Box; Drowned
YAZ: Midnight; Only You
* CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN, GOSPEL, & WORSHIP MUSIC (We can add requested songs for your event):
ANDREW PETERSON: Matthew's Begats
ANNIE SHERWOOD HAWKS: I Need Thee
BART MILLARD: Grace That is Greater
BETHEL: God I Look to You; Goodness of God; What a Beautiful Name
CHRIS McCLARNEY: Hallelujah For the Cross
CHRIS TOMLIN: How Great is Our God
CITY ALIGHT: The Goodness of Jesus
CODY CARNES: Christ Be Magnified
FERNANDO ORTEGA: This Good Day; Give Me Jesus; Take Heart My Friend; How Firm a Foundation; I Will Sing of My Redeemer; Be Thou My Vision; I Will Praise Him Still; Come Thou Long Expected Jesus
HILLSONG WORSHIP: Cornerstone; The Passion; King of Kings
JEREMY RIDDLE: This is Amazing Grace
JOHNNY CASH: He Turned the Water Into Wine
MATT BOSWELL: Come Behold the Wondrous Mystery; His Mercy Is More; Praise the Lord (Psalm 150)
MATT REDMAN: Better is One Day; Build My Life
PAUL BALOCHE: Open the Eyes of My Heart
PHIL WICKHAM: Battle Belongs; Living Hope
SHANE & SHANE / The WORSHIP INITIATIVE: It Was Finished Upon That Cross; Life Defined; Psalm 90 (Satisfy Us With Your Love); Redeemed by the Blood of the Lamb
TIM HUGHES: Here I Am to Worship
TRADITIONAL: Great is Thy Faithfulness; How Great Thou Art; I'll Fly Away, O Holy Night; Sing We the Song of Emmanuel
TWILA PARIS: Days of Elijah
The VILLAGE: No Longer Slaves
The Beatles; Crosby Stills and Nash; Simon & Garfunkel; The Rolling Stones; Led Zeppelin; The Who; Bob Dylan; Johnny Cash; Fleetwood Mac; The Decemberists; Pink Floyd; The Grateful Dead; Bluegrass; Gospel; Motown
We can supply our own P.A. for small- to mid-size venues. Equipment Requirements will vary depending on group size per performance
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