Elwood the Apprentice in conversation with the undisputed harmonica queen of YouTube.
By turns bold as hell and surprisingly self-doubting, Christelle Berthon is one of the most closely watched harmonica players on the web (over 2 million pairs of eyeballs, according to her YouTube stats). She’s a different kind of harmonica hero: instead of gin-soaked juke joints where the smoke hangs low off the ceiling, she found fame playing to jam tracks in front of a web cam at home.
She took time out of her gruelling practice regime to tell us about her decision to dedicate herself to harmonica, and share some insights to her style and influences. And as we soon found out, chasing the dream ain’t easy.
Now Christelle is my current favorite player. She can really get the sweetest sound out of our ‘chosen beast’, her classical diatonic is superb. Thanks for posting Elwood
She’s certainly got a pleasant tone, yes yes.
I am dying to know what type of mic she prefers, especially what she used in the torch club video and also what other equipment such as what amp and are there pedals?
HarmonicaMike
To the best of my knowledge, she uses a mic by BlowsMeAway Productions, Greg Heumann’s custom mic shop. http://www.blowsmeaway.com/
She definitely got my attention after a sudden interest I got about the harmonica. While I was googling around for harmonica stuff, right after Christmas 2010, I found her on youtube and for the first time I got addicted on someone’s videos, her videos. Since then I watch all her new videos. Keep going, Christelle!!!