1. George Joseph Hrab is an American drummer, guitarist, composer and podcaster known for performing rock, funk and jazz and for exploring atheist, skeptic and science themes in his work.
27 Facts About George Hrab
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George Hrab has released six albums as a solo artist.
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George Hrab has released six albums since 1997 as an independent musician.
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In 1998, George Hrab was the touring drummer for the Eric Mintel Quartet, and recorded one jazz album with them.
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George Hrab's job is playing drums for a Philadelphia-area based band called the Philadelphia Funk Authority.
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When performing his own material with a band, George Hrab has called the group the Geologic Orchestra.
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In ten days, George Hrab played in four Australian states, the Australian Capital Territory and the north and south islands of New Zealand.
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In September 2013, George Hrab announced the inception of The Blue Turtles, a band formed to cover Sting's first solo album, The Dream of the Blue Turtles.
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In 2015, George Hrab performed Occasional Songs for the Periodic Table as a part of the Ice House Tonight series in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
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In 2016, George Hrab performed a greatest hits concert featuring string Quartet versions of songs from five of his albums at the Ice House in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
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Together they performed arrangements of George Hrab's songs arranged by Veikko Rihu and Slau Halatyn.
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In 2016, George Hrab reprised The Broad Street Score at the Fashion Institute of Technology's, Katie Murphy Amphitheater as part of the annual NECSS conference.
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Some are George Hrab speaking on a particular topic or relating a story, others are comedy sketches in which George Hrab plays characters.
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Occasionally the podcast will take the form of a concert, with George Hrab singing and playing guitar.
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George Hrab celebrated his 44th birthday by covering Yes' album 90125 in its entirety.
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George Hrab has conducted interviews with musicians such as Slau and Milton Mermikides, as well as others.
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In February 2017, George Hrab celebrated 10 years of the podcast with an eight-hour 500th episode which was broadcast as video on Facebook Live.
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George Hrab wrote and recorded the theme song for the 365 Days of Astronomy podcast, FAR.
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George Hrab created and performed in the associated music video.
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On June 4,2016, George Hrab served as emcee of Reason Rally in Washington, DC On June 5,2016, George Hrab moderated a celebrity panel with Kelly Carlin, John de Lancie, Lawrence Krauss, Paul Provenza, and Dave Rubin at the mini-conference that followed the Reason Rally.
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George Hrab claimed that a short phrase written in cyrillic script in the liner notes and one track on the album were intended as a disparaging remark directed at her, which embarrassed her in front of her coworkers.
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George Hrab denied the charges and the case went to trial in January 1999.
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George Hrab lost the case and had to pay damages, and the album was removed from distribution.
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George Hrab documented the entire affair, including reenacting all of the testimony at trial, on his podcast.
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George Hrab is of Ukrainian Catholic descent and was born in New Jersey.
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George Hrab's father is a musician who has performed in a band called Tempo since 1959.
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George Hrab has lived in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania since attending Moravian College, where he received a bachelors in music in 1993.