Lee "Colorblind" Johnson taught the next generation of jug band-ers a few tricks of the trade at Amazing Grace Bakery and Cafe on Sunday afternoon. With milk jugs, comb-and-wax-paper kazoos and spoons ...

Cleveland's obsession with polka is a nationally circulated factoid. But our city is also home to Todd Kwait, one of the world's most rabid fans of jug-band music. You're probably wondering, "What the ...

In author J.R.R. Tolkein's alternate universe, God created the world through music. If it happened that way in this universe, jug band music might explain laughter and the platypus. With a jug, a ...

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 ...

A band called the Jug or Nots manages to bring both the simple instrumentation and American roots music to a generation unaware of the basis of the music they enjoy. I caught the Jug or Nots at LaBrie ...

101 Just Because / Orange Blossom Jug Five, Dave Van Ronk, Samuel Barclay Charters. Jug,Washboard band music. 102 Camille Gaspegeau / Orange Blossom Jug Five, Dave Van Ronk, Samuel Barclay Charters.

The notion that jug bands are a manifestation of hillbillies-run-rampant is a misguided one. The jug trend of ’20s and ’30s fame was originally an urban, not rural, display with well-dressed members ...

Few people have done more to advance and celebrate folk music than Jim Kweskin. At 84, he's been playing folk, jug music and Americana for over 70 years. He started the Jim Kweskin Jug Band, which ...

Emmet Otter is not the most famous Muppet in Jim Henson’s universe of characters. But Hollywood will still embrace the occasional second act, and the leader of the Frogtown Hollow Jubilee Jug Band in ...