Carolina Chocolate Drops are three young black musicians revisiting, with a joyful vengeance, black string-band and jug-band music of the Twenties and Thirties — the dirt-floor-dance electricity of ...

Everybody knows these days how changes in taste and technology can ravage whole styles of popular music. But the same forces can also give obscure antiques a fresh sheen and unprecedented vitality.

“Jug band — the term refers to a specific style of music and a specific historical period,” Clinton Davis tells the Reader. “And most of those bands were in the 1930s and ’40s, and they were ...

For a group as colorful and influential as it was, the Jim Kweskin Jug Band had a rather dubious start. Maynard Solomon, cofounder of Vanguard Records, had seen Kweskin perform at Club 47 in Cambridge ...

SANTA CRUZ — For a few hours in August 2025, Abbott Square might as well have been in the Deep South in the ’30s. It was all due to a mix of bands playing a style that blended bluegrass, blues and ...

In turn-of-the-century America, the music you could hear in cities up and down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers was jug band music. It was unconventional, raw and hugely popular. The musicians were ...

Many people, when they think of Christmas music, think of the same traditional, well-loved but well-worn songs we hear year after year. Other lucky people think of The Christmas Jug Band. The ...

Close to the midpoint of this 2007 documentary film about a seminal African-American musical tradition, renowned musicologist Samuel Charters (The Country Blues, 1959) reminds us of the significance ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. IRONTON The Juggernaut Jug Band will open the 2026 portion of the Ironton Council for the Arts 2025-26 season at 3 p.m. Feb. 1 in ...

Forget any preconceived notions you may have about jug music. Local author Michael Jones has written a book about jug mug music, and says the style is a lot more inclusive than many people realize.

Who knew that one of the most exciting new Front Range album releases of 2024 was going to feature jug band music and a kazoo chorus? Mad Dog Blues’ eighth album — which contains a myriad of fun ...

They are a local treasure, a labor of musical love. Hutchins Consort, a troupe of dedicated, quirky intellectuals who happen to master eight differently scaled violins from tiny to humongous, put on ...