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The Flat Mountain Girls

High-energy all-girl old-time string band!

About Me

** NEW CD NOW AVAILABLE at CDbaby.com - Idle Talk & Wicked Deeds **** Co-winners of the 2006 Northwest String Summit band contest! **The Flat Mountain Girls are a high-energy old-time string band based in Portland, Oregon, known for tight, raw three-part harmonies, powerful fiddling, and performances that explode with irrepressible glee and bawdy humor.Their repertoire includes arrangements of Carter Family classics, traditional songs from the Southern mountains, cowboy yodels, romping fiddle tunes, and the occasional original, combining tremendous enthusiasm with great respect for the old-time tradition.With Lisa Marsicek playing fiddle, Rachel Gold on banjo, Nann Alleman on guitar and Laura Quigley, the newest Flat Mountain Girl, on bass, the Flat Mountain Girls bring foot-stomping fun to every performance.

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Member Since: 3/26/2006
Band Website: flatmountaingirls.com
Band Members: LISA MARSICEK (fiddle) RACHEL GOLD (banjer) NANN ALLEMAN (guitar) LAURA QUIGLEY (bass)
Influences: Hazel and Alice, The Carter Family, Ginny Hawker, The Coon Creek Girls, The Lonesome Sisters, all the great old time string bands and the gals singing on the front porch
Record Label: NEW CD now available on cdbaby.com!!!
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Day 8 - Glitter Gulch

North of Cantwell, south of Healy.The river trip didn't pan out yesterday, so we drove 15 miles into the park and dispersed for our separate adventures. Nann and Jeannie headed up a canyon and scrambl...
Posted by The Flat Mountain Girls on Sat, 30 Jun 2007 06:00:00 PST

Day 7 - Denali

Sitting on the porch of the Salmon Bake in Denali and feeling POOPED. Yesterday the group split. The hungover crowd milled among the tourists in Talkeetna while the rest of us went to the Todd and Rya...
Posted by The Flat Mountain Girls on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:47:00 PST

Day 5/6 (we're losing track) - Talkeetna

Sandwiched in by mountains, getting up close and personal with Denali. Seated at Mountain High Pizza, digesting some Zah and Caesar salad. Mighty good pizza it be., We are sitting here in the beer gar...
Posted by The Flat Mountain Girls on Wed, 27 Jun 2007 09:06:00 PST

Day 4 - Homer

Breakfast burritos at the cosmic kitchen after a wild nite at the Down East Saloon. Here's a quick recap - Shaemus the dancing dog, Freeman the spoon player from Arkansas, curried scallops, and mounta...
Posted by The Flat Mountain Girls on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 05:38:00 PST

Day 3 - Girdwood

Selita, thanks to a referral from uncle chippy, fed us a fantabulous organic mexican lunch, which set us off to a good start.Next, took off on a hike to the hand tram, which zips across a canyon, home...
Posted by The Flat Mountain Girls on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 05:37:00 PST

Photos: Day 1 of our Alaska Tour

Photos of Alaska: Day 1
Posted by The Flat Mountain Girls on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 03:17:00 PST

Day 1 - Anchorage

The beers are big at SeaTac. Nann has a new digitalcamera. Check this link for a million new photosevery day. Solstice in Alaska. How lucky we are.There are 6 of us on this tour. 3 Flat Mountain gi...
Posted by The Flat Mountain Girls on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 10:34:00 PST

Read reviews of the Flats' new CD, Idle Talk & Wicked Deeds

"A moment at last winter's RiverCity Bluegrass Festival truly captured Portland's Flat Mountain Girls. This bunch of bawdy string twisters wrapped themselves around one microphone and sang a raggedy-b...
Posted by The Flat Mountain Girls on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 10:12:00 PST

PICKATHON!!!!

The Flats are so excited to be playing at this year's Pickathon!  This great fest is the first weekend in August, at Pendarvis Farm in the Portland 'burbs.  The lineup this year is outstandi...
Posted by The Flat Mountain Girls on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:27:00 PST

Sing Out! Fall 2006 review

Although there is a tendency on the part of many to associate the term old-time music almost solely with the fiddle-and-banjo music of Appalachia, the fact is that old-time music comes in many varieti...
Posted by The Flat Mountain Girls on Wed, 16 Aug 2006 06:55:00 PST