New England’s first-ever annual jug band festival will highlight traditions from the 1920’s and 30’s, and the modern evolution of this good-time music.
What’s Jug Band Music?
It’s bluesy, jazzy, and fun! With roots from Appalachia, New Orleans, and Africa, jug band music started in the south (notably Louisville Kentucky and Memphis Tennessee) in the 1920’s and 30’s. Highly popular "back in the day", jug bands such as Gus Cannon’s Jug Stompers and the Memphis Jug Band
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New England’s first-ever annual jug band festival will highlight traditions from the 1920’s and 30’s, and the modern evolution of this good-time music.
What’s Jug Band Music?
It’s bluesy, jazzy, and fun! With roots from Appalachia, New Orleans, and Africa, jug band music started in the south (notably Louisville Kentucky and Memphis Tennessee) in the 1920’s and 30’s. Highly popular “back in the day”, jug bands such as Gus Cannon’s Jug Stompers and the Memphis Jug Band incorporated a variety of conventional and home-made instruments (such as spoons, washtub bass, and washboard), and, of course, featured jug-blowing as a rhythmic backbone. Jug band music could have quietly slid into obscurity if not for a revival in the 1960’s by notable musicians such as John Sebastian, Jerry Garcia, Jim Kweskin, and Maria Muldaur. Today, the genre is alive and well, as you’ll get to hear and see when you come to the festival.
6:00-7:00 – FREE WORKSHOPS
Our festival will begin with several free, hands-on workshops:
7:00-10:30 – CONCERT
The festival will conclude with a rollicking concert featuring five of the
area’s best jug bands:
Too Tight Jug Band
An electrifying four-person jug band, playing songs straight out of Mississippi juke joints and Memphis street corners.
Listen to their music.
High Maintenance Jug Band
Toe tappin’, finger snappin’, back slappin’, good timey jug band and country blues music from the 1920s/30s–with their own unique arrangements.
Listen to their music.
KC Moaners
Recreating a good-time jug-band sound that was popular in Memphis & Louisville during the 20’s and 30’s, inspired by such groups as the Memphis Jug Band & Cannon’s Jug Stoppers.
Listen to their music.
Outrageous Fortune
A Boston-based early jazz & acoustic blues jug band with sweet three-part vocal harmonies, strong groove, and an abundant sense of joy that infuses their performances.
Listen to their music.
The Busted Jug Band
High-energy, hair-raising country/blues/jazz music, featuring group vocals, swinging rhythms and novel instrumentation and inspired by the street bands of the early 20th century.
Listen to their music.
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