Good Music New York

Saturday, January 21st
10:00 pm
FREE
Barbes
376 9th St.
(at 6th Avenue)
Park Slope
Brooklyn

Bill Carney's Jug Addicts apply the twinning principal utilized by Ornette Coleman's early 60s groups and the Max Roach's Double Quartet to the jug band idiom. The result is a particularly robust and raucous jug band sound free of any archival obsessiveness. Comprised of jug band veterans culled from the Don't Look Now Jug Band, MetroPolecats, and Pork Chop, the Jug Addicts' repertoire draws from early jazz, tin pan alley, ragtime, and string band music, along with the classic jug band canon.

Friday, January 13th
10:00 pm
Barbes
376 9th St.
(at 6th Avenue)
Park Slope
Brooklyn

The 4th St. Niteowls are a red-hot "washboard-swing" combo from Hoboken, New Jersey. Performing an extensive repertoire from the 1930s early swing era, their distinctive approach brings new life to the classic songs of musical legends such as Fats Waller, Louis Armstrong, and Hoagy Carmichael. With back porch Southern vocal stylings and barrel-house Western piano, the 4th St. Niteowls are welcomed in many types of venues - from local corner bars and hip lounges to beach front hotels. Throughout NYC and beyond, they continue to revive an era of vibrant and vintage music. Judging from the response at their shows, washboard-swing is alive, well and definitely kicking.

Friday, December 16th
8:30 pm - 11:30 pm
Creative Arts Studio
310 Atlantic Avenue
(between Smith St. & Hoyt St.)
Brooklyn, USA
718-797-5600
$12 in advance/$15 at door

River Alexander's Mad Jazz Hatters deliver a vibrant madcap mix of Hot Speakeasy Jazz and Jubilant Jugband Fervor straight out of the teens and 20’s. They are replete with soulful vocals and harmonies, violin, clarinet, guitar, chromatic harmonica, tin whistle and washtub bass. When upbeat dirges on the jaw harp and spirited original song enter the fray, it becomes a kaleidescopic mix of roaring 20’s exuberance, rural gutbucket soul and dreamtime journey.

Tuesday, October 11th
9:00 pm
Freddy's Back Room
485 Dean St.
Corner of 6th Avenue
Brooklyn

There's a benefit goin' on down at Freddy's Back Room. All proceeds will go to hurrican relief. There are apparently a number of bands playing (I've even heard a rumor that the Spunk Lads may make an appearance), however, the only confirmed listing I have is for the Jug Addicts. Think of it as a suprise. Go on down to Freddy's, support a good cause and see what the night may have to offer.

Bill Carney's Jug Addicts apply the twinning principal utilized by Ornette Coleman's early 60s groups and the Max Roach's Double Quartet to the jug band idiom. The result is a particularly robust and raucous jug band sound free of any archival obsessiveness. Comprised of jug band veterans culled from the Don't Look Now Jug Band, MetroPolecats, and Pork Chop, the Jug Addicts' repertoire draws from early jazz, tin pan alley, ragtime, and string band music, along with the classic jug band canon.

Thursday, September 8th
7:30 pm
Southpaw
125 5th Ave.
at St. John’s Place
Park Slope, Brooklyn
$7

One great night. Four footstompin' acts.

Thank the lords of train hoppin' there's gonna be another Jugfest at Southpaw. What's could possibly be better than pretending hobos are still riding the rails, cigarettes are sold by beautiful women wandering through speakeasies with trays of goodies, moonshining is a necessity and amplification doesn't exist. Come listen to four of New York's best jug bands perform right in your backyard.

The lineup is:

• 8:00 - Uncle Dad & the Drunken Swimmers
• 9:00 - Banjorama!
• 10:00 - The Wiyos
• 11:00 - Bill Carney's Jug Addicts

Saturday, August 27th
10:00 pm
Barbes
376 9th St.
(at 6th Avenue)
Park Slope
Brooklyn

River Alexander’s Mad Jazz Hatters deliver a vibrant madcap mix of Hot Speakeasy Jazz and Jubilant Jugband Fervor straight out of the teens and 20’s. They are replete with soulful vocals and harmonies, violin, clarinet, guitar, chromatic harmonica, tin whistle and washtub bass. When upbeat dirges on the jaw harp and spirited original song enter the fray, it becomes a kaleidescopic mix of roaring 20’s exuberance, rural gutbucket soul and dreamtime journey.

Saturday, August 13th
9:00 pm
Barbes
376 9th St.
(at 6th Ave.)
Brooklyn

The 4th St. Niteowls are a red-hot "washboard-swing" combo from Hoboken, New Jersey. Performing an extensive repertoire from the 1930s early swing era, their distinctive approach brings new life to the classic songs of musical legends such as Fats Waller, Louis Armstrong, and Hoagy Carmichael. With back porch Southern vocal stylings and barrel-house Western piano, the 4th St. Niteowls are welcomed in many types of venues - from local corner bars and hip lounges to beach front hotels. Throughout NYC and beyond, they continue to revive an era of vibrant and vintage music. Judging from the response at their shows, washboard-swing is alive, well and definitely kicking.