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Thread #105145   Message #2161160
Posted By: GUEST,Jim
01-Oct-07 - 11:28 AM
Thread Name: Has anyone ever started a folk big band
Subject: RE: Has anyone ever started a folk big band
We had a band, Late For Dinner, that varied in number, but at the peak had 7 or 8 members. All members were muti-instrumentalists, but they included guitar, banjo, bass, mandolin, long-necked mandolin, mountain dulcimer, Hammered dulcimer, button acordion, piano acordion, English concertina, whistle, flute, fiddle, tuba, harmonica, bodhran... We played everything from jug band, old time jazz tunes, blues, Irish, Canadian and American fiddle tunes contemporary roots type songs (Tom Waits, Townes Van Zandt, Jerry Jeff Walker...) and original tunes.