Juggernaut JugBand at Cliftons

Folks,

I just received this and thought some of the rest of you might be interested in great music and great pie.

Deb
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The Juggernaut Jug Band at Clifton's Pizza THIS weekend

Friday October 5th and Saturday October 6th
8:30 pm each night

Come enjoy some great Louisville Jug Band music and some wonderful Italian food in Clifton.
Clifton's Pizza
2230 Frankfort Ave
Louisville, KY 40206
502-893-3730

Which is a great warm-up for the NATIONAL JUG BAND JUBILEE!

Friday, October 12 and Saturday, October 13
at the BEAUTIFUL Iroquois Amphitheater
Featuring 6 fabulous jug bands from around the country and Louisville musician Pokey LaFarge keeping the music going between sets!
Advance tickets are on sale now - save a couple of bucks! Pick up your advance tickets at ANY Bluegrass Brewing Company location or Ear X-Tacy records. We will also have plenty of tickets at the gate.

AND a special "Educational Encore Concert" at the Oldham County Arts Center on Sunday, October 14th, featuring the Juggernaut Jug Band, The Carolina Chocolate Drops, and "edu-tainer" Sule Greg Wilson. 2:00pm - tickets only $5 and available at the door.

Please visit http://www.jugbandjubilee.comfor all the particulars! Hope to see you there!

You rock Deb! I had meant to see if I could post something about the Jug Band Jubilee and hadn't gotten to it yet.

If anyone has any questions - please let me know!! We are working hard to spread the word and make this a great event!




edited to say - CLIFTON'S IS FREE - THE JUBILEE IS NOT - sorry that picture's colors are so funky!

Is it true jugbands originated in KY?

Well hello Christopher and thank you for asking!

That is definitely up for debate! I can say with some certainty that Louisville jug bands were the first to RECORD their music.

Louisville writer Michael Jones did quite an extensive piece on the history of Jug Band Music some years back, and I won't bore everyone with the whole thing - here is some interesting stuff:

"At the turn of the century, African American musicians in Louisville walked the streets playing tunes on "found" or homemade instruments like empty liquor jugs ("the poor man’s tuba"), kazoos and washboards. They started a craze, "jug music," which swept up and down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, infiltrating black music in the major river cities. Before the sound peaked in the the early 1930s, Louisville artists like Clifford Hayes ("Atlantic Stomp"), Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band ("She's In The Graveyard Now") and Sarah Martin ("Sugar Blues") recorded many tunes, both together and separately, some of which became quite popular."

"Jug music was a descendant of the minstrel and early ragtime traditions, and in some cases touched by the jazz that was developing in New Orleans and Chicago, and as it traveled down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, Memphis also became center for distinctive jug band style. Much of the history of the early jug music slipped from sight, however, until the folk revival of the late ‘60s. Then, groups like Jim Kweskin & His Jug Band, the Grateful Dead ‹ who recorded a version of Cannon’s "Minglewood Blues" - and the Rooftop Singers began to perform songs by Hayes and other jug musicians"

So we definitely have claim on Earl McDonald and Sarah Martin who are both Louisivillian's! ANd in the 20's and 30's WHAS radio had a show featuring the Ballard Chefs, who were another Louisville Jug Band.

Actually, Earl McDonald's only living offspring - Mattie Mathis - still lives in Louisville and was a guest of honor at least year's jubilee and will be with us again this year.

NOW - aren't you sorry you asked?

Heather.

Not sorry for asking at all. It's facinating. As an imigrant and someone who now calls Louisville home, I love to hear that kind of stuff.

Thanks , I'll be there.