{"id":18165,"date":"2020-05-10T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-10T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=18165"},"modified":"2020-05-10T08:48:49","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T15:48:49","slug":"cover-me-the-stormers-my-hometown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/10\/cover-me-the-stormers-my-hometown\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover Me, The Stormers: My Hometown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Stormers are an Irish wedding band, and if the notion of a wedding band covering Bruce&#8217;s music makes you roll your eyes, just trust me and read on.<\/p>\n<p>The Stormers have a unique sound (they describe it as Tom Jones crossed with U2, if either of those acts included a prominent flautist), and with more than a thousand weddings under their belt, they&#8217;ve put in their time.<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks ago, the band released a new video to raise money for a new local outreach center for Pieta House, a suicide prevention and therapy organization, in their hometown of Dundalk.<\/p>\n<p>Their version of Bruce&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/09\/roll-of-the-dice-my-hometown\/\">My Hometown<\/a>&#8221; is absolutely superb and well worth your attention. Take a listen:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"758\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/COkjjpy131I?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>The band may have only just released their video, but they&#8217;ve been working on it for a couple of years, which helps explain why it&#8217;s so well done. Here&#8217;s an earlier work-in-progress version:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"758\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HpydlvpNB_o?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>If like me, you&#8217;re moved by The Stormers&#8217; cover of &#8220;My Hometown&#8221; to donate to their worthy cause, you can do so <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?redir_token=NPuIzaYfILAA4I8oBJ9DTt1ho5l8MTU4OTEzMDA4OUAxNTg5MDQzNjg5&amp;event=video_description&amp;v=COkjjpy131I&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gofundme.com%2Ff%2Fpieta-house-in-my-hometown\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to see what these guys do next.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take a listen to this lovely, flute-forward version of &#8220;My Hometown&#8221; by an Irish wedding band raising funds for a suicide prevention center in their own hometown. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[805,2755],"class_list":["post-18165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cover-me","tag-my-hometown","tag-the-stormers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/stormersmyhometown-1280x640-1.png?fit=1280%2C640&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9w3Lk-4IZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":931,"url":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/01\/cover-me-a-womans-got-the-power\/","url_meta":{"origin":18165,"position":0},"title":"Cover Me: A Woman&#8217;s Got the Power","author":"Ken","date":"March 1, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Bruce salutes his mom with this song by local Philly band The A's.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Cover Me&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Cover Me","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/category\/cover-me\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/womanpower.jpg?fit=400%2C400&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":33564,"url":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/28\/cover-me-david-cook-secret-garden\/","url_meta":{"origin":18165,"position":1},"title":"Cover Me, David Cook: Secret Garden","author":"Ken","date":"March 28, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"When the American Idol winner's tour brought him to Bruce's hometown, he knew he wanted to work up something special for the occasion. 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