BeauDangles, the way I've heard that band introduction gag is, "I'd like the band to introduce themselves."
Then, of course, the band members all go around shaking hands with each other and introducing themselves to each other.

John Ross used to run the band scramble at the NW Folklife Festival in Seattle, and that was a running gag that some band would use every year.


There's also the standard patter while tuning instruments: "This is a Chinese folk song. It's called "Tu Ning."

And then you tell the audience, "We take requests - as long as you don't request that we sing "Over The Hill And Far Away."

I usually preface that by saying that I'm glad to take requests: You just write them down on a $20 bill and pass them up here ... "