We're a rootin'-tootin', high-fallutin', non-pollutin', rip-roarin', shiv-shavin', new-fangled, old time, bona fide, good time, string band! Steven and Jimbo have been pickin' and grinnin' together since 1997 but our current line-up was forged in the summer of 2K5; we've been blazing trails and entertaining folks with our brand of string band music ever since. People often ask us, "Are you a Bluegrass band?" No, not really, but we do play some Bluegrass songs. Then they ask, "Are you a folk band?" Um....well, kinda-sorta (it is the music of the people after all), but this ain't nothin' like Peter, Paul and Mary or the Kingston Trio.
Allow us to explain in the simplest terms possible; as a string band, we tend to stagger and swerve with reckless abandon to the left and right of traditional American music. We're what we like to call a new-fangled, old timey string band. Banjos & fiddles & singing; oh my! Not only do we play breakdowns and hoe downs, but we manage to throw in original numbers, songs from different genres and from different parts of the world. We draw from a deep well of material because it better represents our diversity, dynamic, and aesthetic.
Here's a live video from our performance on 02/04/06! Make sure that the other music is OFF before you press the PLAY button.
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We'll try to get s'more video online; until then, the only way you'll get to enjoy some of our down home, wholesome goodness is by witnessing it first-hand.
Thanx to Silas Z. for shooting the video