About

Children Medieval Band

After one of our videos went viral on youtube, and got posted on the Rammstein official site (sometimes in April 2012 – and again, more recently in 2016, with same video! viewed by 10 million on facebook), a lot of people wanted to find out more about this kids group.
An article has been submitted to wikipedia a while ago, but got rejected…
Also mass-media totally ignored this interesting young band – and this proves something – completely oblivious to important events like, for instance, the great performance of these kids in front of 10,000, when opening for the Rammstein concert in Denver, Colorado.

The main goals of our activity are:

• to promote the medieval music as an alternative in music education,
• to have a good influence on other kids so they choose good music as opposed to most of the mainstream,
• to learn and promote the “good rock” – sincere, rebel, strong and heart-felt – as opposed to “evil-rock” and “frivolous-rock” (‘drugs-sex-rr’, ‘shake-butt’ and ‘aspartame’ mainstream pollution).

Formed in the spring of 2011, Children Medieval Band became quickly known because of several unique features:

It is the world’s only children band playing, among other genres, Medieval and Renaissance music, It is the youngest band ever to play in front of a very large audience (10,000), when they opened up for the Rammstein concert in Denver, It is probably the youngest band ever to play a full one hour concert – fifteen songs – with no mistakes and no moments of dropped concentration. Their first live show (2013) can be viewed here – (soon after, CMB played 4 more similar shows during the fall of 2013, also 6 shows during the summer of 2014 – see the Highlights down this page). Also the 2015 show can be viewed here. And a proof that time is moving too fast: a simple and fabulous 2016 concert in San Diego with CMB kids becoming teens… Our first album – Treasure Underground – contains, very likely, the most original material ever created by a young band at this age (8-12 in 2014). The band leader (12 years old, in 2014) is the world’s youngest known multi-instrumentalist, playing LIVE (since he was 9) on at least nine instruments, and 12 instruments in the latest video And last but not least, the charming performance done by our drummer girl, since she was 5 yo. Her performance at that age is already a legend, considering that the Rammstein drummer himself, Christoph Schneider, was impressed.

The enumeration above may look as a lack of modesty, but these are facts, and omitting them would be unfair for the kids, after all their efforts. Being taught to be modest, they know there are many other children very talented with amazing singing or instrumental performances. But they are also aware of their own accomplishments. In less than 3 years (2011-2014), practicing not more than one hour per day, they succeeded:
1. as medieval music performers as they already participated with great success at several Renaissance Faires.
2. as Rammstein young admirers as they made several R+ covers which became popular on youtube, and even played live on stage, opening for Rammstein themselves in Denver 2012.
3. as Beatles music fans as they learned and recorded several Beatles covers, and one got featured recently on a Beatles TV commercial.

The line-up
Stefan (14 yo) – voice, guitar, violin, recorder, keyboard, etc…
and his two sisters:
Olga (13 yo) – keyboard, voice, violin, recorder
Cornelia (10 yo) – drum, harp, voice
(updated ages in 2016)

Many visitors to our site would like to know what country we are from.
Stefan and his two sisters (as well as the parents) are US citizens of Romanian nationality, living in Southern California (previously in Colorado).

Style and influences
This young band likes the “good” rock and avoids frivolous rock and evil rock. We call it “tense rock”. Our three albums – “Treasure Underground“, “New Target” and “Abyss” – reflect this.
The main influences are Beatles, Cream, Stranglers and Rammstein.
We are trying to find our own style: a fusion of heavy tense industrial metal, with elements of medieval music. CMB is one of the very few neo-medieval bands in USA.
Besides playing rock, we also have participated at several Medieval Faires in California, where we played only medieval songs. Trying to promote the early medieval fairy tale music as an alternative in music education is one of our goals.

Background
The group has been formed in the spring of 2011 by the kids themselves. Stefan came out with two composition attempts and the girls joined him with enthusiasm.
While learning and playing medieval music (several videos posted on youtube), they also started doing covers of rock songs, mostly as a learning project. They played and posted on youtube.com three 60’s songs and three Rammstein covers. They quickly became popular on youtube, the cover of Sonne reaching more than 2 million views in a few weeks.

On May 20th 2012, the kids from Children Medieval Band played live as an opening act for the Rammstein show in Denver. It was a great audience. The kids performed very well. They met with the Rammstein group members, took pictures, had interesting discussions. It was a memorable evening.

Highlights

2011 April 2011 – Stefan, Olga and Cornelia formed a band with the name ‘The Crudeles’ changed later into “Children Medieval Band”. June 2011 – The first release on youtube – a medieval song “Ecco la Primavera” by F. Landini July-Nov. 2011 – releases on youtube of several other medieval songs: Tourdion, Mohrentanz, Scarborough, Pavane, Nota, Mon Amy Dec. 2011 – release of Beatles cover “Love Me Do”, controversial because of changed lyrics

2012 Feb. 2012 – Release of our first Rammstein cover – ICH WILL April 2012 – the Rammstein cover ‘Sonne’ becomes viral on youtube May 20, 2012 – Rammstein invites the CMB kids to open for them in Denver, Colorado. The kids played two songs (Ich Will and Sonne) in front of a very friendly audience of 10000 people. June-Dec 2012 – participation at several Renaissance Faires in California: Big Bear, Escondido, Ventura

2013 Jan 2013 – release of a CD containing 7 medieval songs Jan-June 2013 – several releases of various covers: Walk-Don’t-Run (Ventures), There’s a Place (Beatles), Purple-Haze (Hendrix), 7-Nation-Army (White Stripes), Donaukinder and AlterMann by Rammstein – as a study project on the history of Rock. June. 30, 2013 – CMB plays a 1 hour show at the San Diego Fair, presenting “A Short History of Rock” Aug. 17-18 – we play 6 shows at the Medieval Fair in Big-Bear City Sept. 21, 2013 – CMB plays two shows in the same day, with two different repertoires: ‘History of Rock’ songs at the Mira Mesa Fair and ‘An Evening of Rammstein covers” at the Epicentre club. Oct. 4, 2013 – a six songs show at the Queen Bee’s Art Center, San Diego, California. Oct. 20, 2013 – CMB plays 15 songs as one hour show at the Escondido Fair, presenting “A Short History of Rock”. Nov. 24, 2013 – release of a major piece – “Morning Light” – remake of Rammstein’s Morgenstern: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2yfgYMh9oU

2014 March 1, 2014 – A commercial TV advertising, related to Beatles 50th anniversary, is showing the CMB kids, playing for a few seconds the FromMeToYou cover: http://www.ispot.tv/ad/7BYM/apple-records-the-beatles-50th-anniversary June 14, 2014 – CMB kids played their ‘History of Rock’ 15 songs at San Diego Fair: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3XnnCqifJ0 July 17, 2014 – Children Medieval Band rocked the house at Orange County Fair, in Costa Mesa, California. The repertoire contained a certain selection of 12 songs from rock history timeline, ending with two CMB compositions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar-AEpFaVYY Sept. 13th, 2014 – small concert at “Across the Street” club in San Diego. We present 10 songs from our upcoming album “Treasure Underground”: https://childrenmedievalband.wordpress.com/2014/09/20/across-the-street/ Sept. 20th, 2014 – Two successful shows on the same day: https://childrenmedievalband.wordpress.com/2014/09/23/playing-out-all-day-and-most-of-the-night/ October 19th, 2014 – CMB played for 1 hr at the Escondido Faire. More info… November 10th, 2014 – Stefan plays a medieval song (Mohrentanz, by T. Susato) on 12 instruments. November 22nd, 2014 – video with ‘Dance the Night Away‘ by Cream, in memory of Jack Bruce.

2015 Feb. 2, 2015 – Release of the “Treasure Underground” video, featuring the main song of our upcoming album. March 20th, 2015 = Release of CMB first single – more… April 30th, 2015 – Our first album – Treasure Underground – is released! More: https://childrenmedievalband.wordpress.com/2015/04/30/treasure-underground-bad-and-better/ June 27th – a very good show at San Diego Fair. Here is the playlist… Sept. 19th – our third double show. Each year, CMB performed two shows in two different locations, always on the same day – the 3rd Saturday of September. More info… Oct. 17-18th – several performances during a two days medieval jousting tournament in Poway, California. Besides medieval songs CMB played an acoustic version of the song Rosenrot. More… Dec. 18th – A well done cover of the Stranglers piece: Threatened

2016 Jan. 10th – Nice start on new year, we had a second viral, with the same video! as in 2012. That time we got 5 million views on YouTube – now, on Facebook, more than 10 million! March 2nd – Release of the official video “End-of-Road”. March 23rd – very nice media coverage about CMB in several magazines. Apr. 10th – Release of a newer, shorter version of Sonne (by Rammstein). May 2nd – Release of Double Vision – a studio cover – by Foreigner. June 4th – Our first concert this year – at the fundraising event for Daly School, Bonita. A nice marathon of 15 songs. June 11th – concert at San Diego Fair July 4th – Release of our original remake of Route 66. July 14th – Release of All Along the Watchtower (Dylan, Hendrix). July 23rd – concert at Orange County Fair Oct. 20th – we start working on a new album. The release date should be sometime in the middle of next year. Nov. 15th – medieval show in Newport Beach, at Dehesa school. More…

2017 Feb. 23rd – Release of “TV or not TV” – one of the 10 compositions which will be featured on our next album “New Target” – to be released before Fall, this year. Apr. 17th – Release of Medieval Light another song from the upcoming album. Aug. 29th – Today we deliver TWO albums at once: “New Target” and “California Medieval Faire”. Both are available at Bandcamp.com.

2018 Jan. 13th – release of the unplugged version of song Badge (Cream). Feb. 5th – release of the unplugged version of song Spieluhr(Rammstein). Apr. 17th – completion of the 4-songs unplugged playlist May 21st – a nice gig in Bucharest, at the “Hidden” club, for a private party. Jun 2nd – gig with new covers at IKEA Jun 23rd – a gig in Bucharest (Berceni – Sabri Park) with 4 new covers prepared quickly in one day (!). Aug. 25 & 26 – We play at the Sibiu (Romania)Medieval Festival.

2019 Apr. 29 – Published a new Rammstein cover (Keine Lust) in English: – Kind of Lost May 04 – Release of our 3rd album Abyss May 11 – Video of “My Parallel Universe” song from the Abyss album. June 9 – Video of “Sad and Bad (in spite of)” song from the Abyss album. June 24 – Video of “When I Fall” song from the Abyss album. July 27 – The Farmington Gig

Reviews from Amazon – about our 1st album:

• Inventive, pure, audacious, and refreshing.
  These kids have made a genuine effort to find their own voice and as a result ten emotionally rich songs have been created. I cannot wait to hear their upcoming releases.
  By Oscar on January 8, 2016
• This is better than most records put out by adults.
  It’s creative, inventive and sounds solid. I would’ve killed to put out a record this good when i was 13. These kids have got something special Can’t wait to see where these kids are in 10 years.
  by Jonathan Webb on January 8, 2016

Our plans for the future?
To continue learning Early Music, to play a few more covers of most notable rock bands and to continue creating our own compositions.

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More details about CMB: hello-world and 3rd anniversary. CMB videos can be watched on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/childrenmedievalband

Some info about a new education system, available here: http://intelligentmusicalchildren.wordpress.com/

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Follow CMB on Twitter: https://twitter.com/childrenmediev CMB link on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Children-Medieval-Band/211817842219823

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