Once In a Lifetime Opportunity to Experience the Jim Kweskin Jug Band 50th Reunion Tour! Featuring Jim
Kweskin, Maria Muldaur, Geoff Muldaur, Richard Greene, Bill Keith,
Cindy Cashdollar & Sam Bevan. JKJB Performs a 2 Night Celebration of
Their Special Musical Magic on 7/6 & 7/7, 2013!
Before
smart phones and personal computers, before the Beatles first appeared
on the Ed Sullivan Show, the Jim Kweskin Jug Band became the original
Americana band, playing everything from classic blues to hillbilly
country, ragtime, jazz, and rock and roll, perfectly capturing the 1960s
mix of exuberant anarchy and heartfelt sincerity. Their unique blend of
youthful energy and antiquarian expertise, tight musicianship and loose
camaraderie took them from the Newport Folk Festival, where they were
reliable crowd favorites, to multiple appearances on national
television, where they baffled Johnny Carson by handing him a kazoo and
inviting him to jam and once managed to convince Bette Davis to join
them on washboard. Other folk-blues revivalists were nostalgic, but the
Kweskin gang were revolutionary hipsters. “It was just a pure love of
music and a real community feeling,” says Maria Muldaur. That community
centered around Jim, a formidable ragtime blues guitarist with a gift
for good-time jazz. He pulled together a mismatched bunch of talented
individuals: Geoff Muldaur singing blues with eerie soul and playing
guitar, mandolin, and washboard, Maria Muldaur playing fiddle, kazoo, and
tambourine and singing like a cross between a hillbilly lass and an old
sexy blueswoman. Other band members included the banjo virtuoso Bill
Keith and fiddler Richard Greene, both alumni of Bill Monroe’s Bluegrass
Boys. Joining those stalwarts tonight will be jug band young ’uns Sam
Bevan on bass and Cindy Cashdollar on Dobro and steel guitar.Fifty years down the road, the original members of the JKJB have
separately kept making music in myriad configurations, but the Jug Band
is where they started and there’s a special magic when they come back
together. The rock critic Ed Ward oncelisted the most important bands
of the early 1960s as the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, the Byrds, and
the Jim Kweskin Jug Band, adding: “I'm not kidding.” Anyone who knows
the Jug Band knows their eminent place in the annals of American music.
The Kweskin gang made the jug band style of the 1920s sound fresher than
ever. As Jim said, “We don’t sound like anybody ever sounded before.
What we are doing is taking old styles and building new things out of
them. We’re ourselves all the time.” This will be a once in a lifetime experience so come on out to the Freight and join
these musical legends as they make jug band magic one more time! Time: 8:00 PM Tickets: http://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/271427
