Started as a small phenomena in a small town and has since spread nationwide. The fountain band consists of whoever wants to join, whenever and wherever. You are the fountain band upon willing it so.
All the songs currently on this myspace site are played with organic instruments (buckets, banjos, xylophones, spoons, acoustic guitars, etc.) and all of the lyrics are entirely improvised (except the choruses of course).
Below is a flier passed out during an earlier show where one "version" of the Fountain Band showed up and played and recruited everyone at the show into the band.
Welcome to the Fountain Band
Please note that the heading did not welcome you to the Fountain Band show but rather to the Fountain Band itself. The title, the Fountain Band, is oft cited to be a misnomer. You see, the Fountain Band consists of whoever wishes to join. Although some individuals collectively referring to themselves as “the Fountain Band†are performing songs here this evening, it is equally, if not more appropriate for a completely different gathering of completely different individuals performing under the moniker of “the Fountain Band†to be performing at some other place at some other time. Moreover, these collective gatherings need not perform any pre-established or pre-performed Fountain Band songs to be considered the Fountain Band. No genre of music, style of speech, or manner of attire is required, nor expected, in order to embody the Fountain Band. It is possible, not to mention idealistically desirable, that numerous Fountain Bands unknowingly perform simultaneously at numerous different venues performing completely different songs. Explanation and rhetoric aside, the point, quite simply, is that you are a member of the Fountain Band upon willing it so. Everyone and anyone is welcome to “join†the Fountain Band. Just show up and play, wherever you are. Revisiting the aforementioned assertion that “the Fountain Band†is a misnomer, we simply turn to our good friend Webster (in reference to Webster’s New World Dictionary of the American Language, second college edition, 1970, page 109) in noting that a band is merely “a group of people joined together for a common purpose.†Please note that the definition offered does not imply that individuals need be joined in a geographic or spatial sense, nor does it suggest a connotation that a “band†of individuals be familiar or even aware of each other. The common purpose, of course, is fun. Life, you see, can be enjoyable sometimes if you give it a little elbow grease.
Sincerely,
The Fountain Band
