Post a picture of your band!!

[Aran]

Did a search and nothing came up that I could see!

Just happened to have some pictures done over the weekend by an out of work photographer which I thought looked quite cool so decided to share...

Would love to see some of yours too...
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[mandopete]

Great idea for a thread!

Band photo's are always a bit tricky and sort of a pain to do. Here's one that we did for Stay Tuned a couple of years ago....

[Trey Young]

Fun idea Aran. I don't have any professional shots to share, but we do have one candid shot and one semi candid shot that I think are pretty good. Our bass player missed the dress code memo in the first shot, guess his golf game ran late. I'm hoping we can get an endorsement deal from the second shot :cool:...

[Ivan Kelsall]

I wish i could !. The photos of my band disappeared over 40 years back. Unfortunately they were also the ones taken at the venue where we opened for Bill Monroe & the boys in 1966. BM's Banjo player at the time,Lamar Grier, could be seen sitting at the side of the stage during our 2nd spot,
Ivan:(

[D C Blood]

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[Patrick Sylvest]

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_omqUIEO4GuQ/TQy6RTQWD-I/AAAAAAAAAMY/v-S1JE15908/s640/MossLaFete2010.jpg

This'd be the Moss Pickers... Louisiana's Southernmost String Band! :disbelief:

[John Rosett]

Here's a shot of my jazz group. The fact that we're all wearing black shirts is purely a coincidence.

[John Rosett]

Here's a picture of a band I used to be in.

[Jim Garber]

A couple of bands I was in from way back. Park bench shot of Wonderbeans was from late 1970s and Tunesmith from around mid-1980s.

[Charles E.]

Hey Jim, is that Ken Bloom playing the zither in the second photo?

[Strado Len]

Fred's Mobile Homes

[Charles E.]

Here is the southern string band at Sparta NC

[resophonic]

This is a picture from a contra dance we played last October. It was a balmy 40 degrees in the old barn the dance was held at. Note the little heaters on the floor in front of us. Billy Mathews on fiddle, James Eyman on mandola, Christine Breen on the banjo and me, Paul Breen on guitar. I think this was the coldest gig yet. We called ourselves Willy and the North Polecats.


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[Jason Kessler]

Fred's Mobile Homes

Is that Larry Cohen on bass?

[Jim Garber]

Hey Jim, is that Ken Bloom playing the zither in the second photo?

Yes, it is. And the fiddler on the end is Sam Zygmuntowicz, master violin maker.

[Charles E.]

Here is my favorite photo of the SSB, taken with an old, wooden cased, large format, poloroid camera. It was at a music retreat in Bath NC. I am the one holding a 1932 National Triolian tenor guitar.

[Strado Len]

Jason:

Yes that is Larry Cohen on bass in the photo of Fred's Mobile Homes. Other group members are Beth Mead, banjo; Peter Lorch, guitar; and me, George Abramson on mandolin and guitar.

[Charles E.]

Patrick, that is an absolutly wonderful photo of your group. Kudo's to the photographer for capturing the moment.

[Jill McAuley]

Great thread and great photos everyone!

Cheers,
Jill

[Mandolin Holm]

http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/1230/oktober2010.jpg

My folk band, Barfota. I'm the really short one with a tambourine around my neck.

[wwwilkie]

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My band Boedak Boedak Kecoh (the Wild Boys) in Sumatra, Indonesia.
I'm the guy with the mandolin.

[Jim Garber]

My folk band, Barfota. I'm the really short one with a tambourine around my neck.

Great photo, Mandolin Holm... for my info: does barfota mean barefoot?

[Jessbusenitz]

This is our group playing at my cousins wedding (I'm on the mando). the 2 on the right our my brothers and the banjo player is just a friend.

[Chip Booth]

Spare Change in Ketchum, Idaho, mid July this year. Yep, that's hail.

[Ed Goist]

Man, this is such a great thread! I'm impressed...Lookin' good folks! Keep those pics coming.
P.S.: Holm - I love all bands that have more mandolins than shoes! Bravo!

[Mandolin Holm]

Great photo, Mandolin Holm... for my info: does barfota mean barefoot?

Thanks, and yes it does mean that!



Man, this is such a great thread! I'm impressed...Lookin' good folks! Keep those pics coming.
P.S.: Holm - I love all bands that have more mandolins than shoes! Bravo!

Yeah, who needs shoes when you have mandolins?

[Ronny]

This is my band : Géill Sli, we were playing for a wedding this day...

[Patrick Sylvest]

Patrick, that is an absolutly wonderful photo of your group. Kudo's to the photographer for capturing the moment.

Thanks, that was taken by the local newspaper. Luckily, they posted it online so I was able to grab it!

[Patrick Sylvest]

Spare Change in Ketchum, Idaho, mid July this year. Yep, that's hail.

Chip! Don't leave us hangin'! How'd those instruments fare when the sky cleared?

[MikeEdgerton]

Fandango Sky, one from a few years ago and one from this year.

[Chip Booth]

Chip! Don't leave us hangin'! How'd those instruments fare when the sky cleared?

There was a Gilchrist, a Smart 10 string, Arches, a Martin D18V, Kay bass and some old fiddle all caught in that. I grabbed the Gil and the Smart and held them under me while I ran for their cases. When I got back my Martin had ice bouncing off of it left and right. A lady in the audience had grabbed a checkered tableclothe and covered the bass! The good news is it all worked out just fine, instruments tend to be resilient. My PA was slightly worse for the wear though, so we finished the set acoustically under a big tent set up for listeners. It actually turned a rather mundane art festival set into a really good time!

[Gerry Cassidy]

Here are some from the last few years: Playing my bread winner the Bass with violinist Michi Regier, and for those of you who have had the chance to meet him, Walt Kuhlman the creator of Gypsy Mandolins (who is also a great guitarist!). Then just a few more of jamming on my Crump GOM and F4 with friends... The one thing in common with them all is the fun I had with these people! :) :mandosmiley:

[Mandolin Holm]

This is my band : Géill Sli, we were playing for a wedding this day...

Nice picture, and nice line-up. Very few bands with hurdy gurdys these days.
What kind of music do you play?

[GVD]

Every time I try to get a decent picture of the band all they want to do is monkey around.

[Ed Goist]

Every time I try to get a decent picture of the band all they want to do is monkey around.

"Take your stinking paws off me, you d****, dirty banjo player!"

(no offense to your banjo player, but I couldn't pass-up the movie tie-in!) ;)

[bernabe]

A recent gig

[Charles E.]

Every time I try to get a decent picture of the band all they want to do is monkey around.

Well your bound to look like a monkey when grow old.........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iAg9fonYko&feature=related

[woodwizard]

Here's a shot my sister took of my OT band called ... "The Mountain Boomers String Band" ...and also a youtube link of us picking a little bit of "Little Billy Wilson" at a little pickin party this past Saturday.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGMsmZvGm5o

[roscoestring]

Well, here we are. Weeds In The Grass. I'm the one in the pink shirt.:grin:
My daughter was a part of this group. She was the mandolin player. She died just before this was taken. The old man on the right played the mandolin this day. The older woman played harmonica, the young girl on fiddle, the other lady on banjo, me on electric guitar, young boy on bass, and then the acoustic guitar. They are all family except me. Three generations. The pink shirts was in memory of my daughter.

http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee210/roscoestring/group081.jpg

[Mike Snyder]

Oh GVD, I'm not sure I'd wanna make a monkey out of that bass player. Payback is a b*tch. And you've got one of the most attractive fiddlers in Kansas. Say it ain't so, Mike.

[GVD]

Oh GVD, I'm not sure I'd wanna make a monkey out of that bass player. Payback is a b*tch. And you've got one of the most attractive fiddlers in Kansas. Say it ain't so, Mike.

Well Mike her bark is a lot worse than her bite and as far as fiddlers go sometimes you just make do with whoever you can get ;)

[jim simpson]

I've posted these band shots before in other threads so hope repetition is acceptable.
Bands include: Walls of Time, Cabin Fever String Band, Charlie Dynamite & His Short Fuse, pickup band, & Togary Mt. Boys.

*Bob Heyer, guitarist in Togary Mt. Boys (mid 70's) and I started playing music together in 1970. We still play together today in Cabin Fever and Charlie Dynamite.

[jim simpson]

Here are some more group shots including: Suburban Legend, Culture Shock, and Haywire.

Beth Mead, banjo player in early Haywire makes her 2nd appearance here as she is in Strado Len's photo of Freds Mobile Homes.

[Ronny]

Nice picture, and nice line-up. Very few bands with hurdy gurdys these days.
What kind of music do you play?
Mainly Irish, with some klezmer and breton tunes...

[Bernie Daniel]

Here's a shot my sister took of my OT band called ... "The Mountain Boomers String Band" ...and also a youtube link of us picking a little bit of "Little Billy Wilson" at a little pickin party this past Saturday.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGMsmZvGm5o

That Goldrush looks and sounds great and really stands out acoustically in that setting.

[woodwizard]

That Goldrush looks and sounds great and really stands out acoustically in that setting.

Thanks Bernie. Ive been told that it sounds louder away than up close. Or you can hear it cutting thru from afar. I call it the projector ... :)

[JMUSIC]

On Daufuskie island. The Portajohns

[Pete Counter]

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[farmerjones]

Spreadin the Love since 2003!
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[Kerry Krishna]

Here are a few of Acoustically Inclined. I started this band in 1990 ( and all because of that beauteous Monteleone too! ) , and toured for 5 years up Canada way. 200,000 kilometers, 4 brand new vans, three albums, two mandolins, one purpose... Luke Doucet on guitar,(Sarah Mclachlan Band) Richard Moody on Viola, Mira Sahay/Black on vocals. Julie Gravette on drums, Ron Tommason on guitar, Dave Marauchis on bass Kerry Krishna on mandolin. See were the name came from folks? The haircut came before the name.

[Mike Bunting]

Where is Richard Moody playing now?

[Fiffoff]

This is our nice little Band in Germany: "die Croonies"- always great fun, playing together!
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[Don Grieser]

Here's the Sons Of Others at a show for the Music Beneath the Mesa series out by El Morro National Monument in western New Mexico. Justin McLauchlin, bass and Gregg Daigle, guitar. Guess who's on the mandolin.

[Kerry Krishna]

Richard Moody is playing Viola violin and sometimes mandolin with a few groups based out of Winnipeg. He has been on tour with Ruth Moody of the Wailin' Jennies for quite some time, but when at home runs a Yoga school. He usually spends 4 months a year in India.

[Mike Bunting]

Richard Moody is playing Viola violin and sometimes mandolin with a few groups based out of Winnipeg. He has been on tour with Ruth Moody of the Wailin' Jennies for quite some time, but when at home runs a Yoga school. He usually spends 4 months a year in India.
The name seemed familiar.

[Kerry Krishna]

Richard got some international fame when that PBS Documentary came out a few years ago. It was the one were the two families went back to using two hundred year old stuff for a calendar year, and it was all filmed for a mimi-series. Imagine having your name/music travel all over the world and be on 30 million TVs in a single day. What a trip. I was so proud of him.

[Kerry Krishna]

Pioneer Quest was the name of the mini series..

[woodwizard]

Here's another pic of "The Mountain Boomers" ...We sure have fun! Especially when there's free food and beer! and also a youtube OT tune of us playin' a fiddle tune of some sort... :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9ms254TET4

[Kerry Krishna]

Wood wizard, that was tons of fun. Just when I figured I had heard all the old time tunes..

[deadsteam]

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[deadsteam]

Jot 'Em Down Boys from Canton, Ga.

[Mark Gibbs]

We are Karina & Marco and I put down my Wilkie mandolin momentarily to play my bass for a couple of songs. This is my first bass and it is a 1937 King Mortone. We play Italian and French folk music mostly. Here is a song, Amame Giannina off our second album C'est Si Bon . The mandolin on the recording is my Givens F-5. I hope you enjoy the music. I am a bluegrasser at heart and love the high lonesome sound.

[Jim Garber]

Hey Mark: I could not play the mp3 for some reason. Do you have it on a web site somewhere?

[Leverman61]

This is the only photo I have for our band Panther Hollow String Band. This particular photo doesn't include our guitar player Dave who I am subbing for. This was a gig in Pittsburgh. Paying attendees got front row privileges.

[mandoscotia]

Hmmmm, never attached a photo before. Does this work?

Grassworks Bluegrass Band

[Doug Edwards]

I miss playing with the band since I moved, but still fill in from time to time.

Pretty in pink.

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I Believe He's Coming Back (http://hillcountrystringworks.com/media/I_Believe_He_s_Coming_Back_192Kbps_.mp3)

[Scotti Adams]

Found this blast from the past

[tree]

Okay Scotti, I'll bite. Who is it? The Harley Allen/Mike Lilly Band?

That turquoise jacket is a bold fashion statement, but truth be told, the skinny tie is right up my alley. I keep waiting for those to come back. ~:>

[Scotti Adams]

No..Its Gary Brewer and the Kentucky Ramblers. L-R Larry Beasley banjo, Steve Day Fiddle, Myself, Mike Clevenger bass, Gary Brewer guitar and from the Grand Ole Opry Grant Turner. Im guessing this was around 1989-90

[testore]

My band, Red Dog Ash.

[mehrsam]

Susquehanna Travellers from York, PA. I'm the one with the b***o. I also play a bowlback mandolin, (mandolin content requirement thus satisfied...)but we decided the b***o would be better for this shot.

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[journeybear]

I don't photograph well, so it is hard to find pictures of me that haven't caused irreparable damage to the camera or subsequent viewers. Here are a couple that have survived this process.

These are of Southernmost Magnolia Cajun Band, a seasonal Cajun/country/bluegrass band, with a core group of three and many rotating members, particularly fiddle.

1) From the world-famous Green Parrot, a Mardi Gras gig from three years ago, apparently taken from a safe distance. I can tell because I recognize Mindy Lynn, the A-00 I got to replace Mandy Lynn, my F-12, after she was stolen the previous summer, and served me well until I got the 1917 A in the spring.

2) From Geiger Key Marina, same year. This is one of my favorites. Really shows my best side. Seems to be a point in the gig when we had a guest bass player. Cindy is much better-looking. Nice (if slightly fuzzy) shot of fearless leader Maggie Moniz, and her nice old Martin.

[i-vibe]

From Mid-Missouri.... (bands and personel from left to right)

Mere Mortals Jim Borwick banjo/Marilyn Cummins bass/Danna Moore vcls-uke/Mark Atkins Lieberman (I-VIBE) mando/Steve Jacobs vcls-gtr

Django's Tiger Poy deLeon/Mark Atkins Lieberman/Thom Howard

Planet Jazz Mark Atkins Lieberman/Monte Safford/Will West

[SkitownPicker]

Our band the Old Town Pickers
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[Perry]

Here's us.......you can see a pair of ToneBone Pre-Z's in the bottom left. The first pic that Aran posted is my fav so far.

[mtucker]

No..Its Gary Brewer and the Kentucky Ramblers. L-R Larry Beasley banjo, Steve Day Fiddle, Myself, Mike Clevenger bass, Gary Brewer guitar. Im guessing this was around 1989-90

looks like a nice pair of python's there, Scotti!

[Dobe]

One of the bands I'm in:

"Rough Around the Edges"

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:mandosmiley:

I'm the only one dressed properly !!

[Scotti Adams]

That would be so true..so true.

[jamie_t123]

Proud to be a member of the Oak Park Farmers Market Band!

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[John Soper]

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The Hollow Rock Ramblers AKA Carson & the Beach Comb-overs. Our Sunday afternoon Swing Sessions group occasionally puts it out in public... this time to raise funds and make noise for Gynecologic Cancer Awareness month this past September at the Broad Street Cafe in Durham, NC.

[John Rosett]

An earlier incarnation of my current band. I like the matching shirts.

[Aran]

Thanks for sharing all your band pictures... I really like the ones that look like they were taken around the turn of the last century...

Someone emailed this one to me recently so thought I should share... Oh another one where the stage looks way too big for a wee acoustic 4 piece like us.... 6821568216

[Jonas]

Here's a picture of my band - Sideshow Stringband (http://sideshowstringband.bandcamp.com)

[jim simpson]

Here's a photo that I found on the internet. It was a local gig with a couple of fellow members of Cabin Fever String Band plus our friend, Wally Hoffmann on bass. Wally has since relocated to Nashville and is having a wonderful time living and playing there.

[Tim Lee]

The Hey Brothers first gig last fall. Arches mandolin. http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=68278&d=1297275754

[Steve Cantrell]

My band Pinetop Revival, doing it as properly as possible.

[Jill McAuley]

Awesome photo Steve!!

Cheers,
Jill

[Randi Gormley]

Not the whole band, but about a third of us. We visited a school last week and had a great time playing for third and fourth graders.

[Jan Ellefsen]

http://rauset.no/ORO/CD/ORO-Bandbilde1m.jpg

My band from the inside of a CD-cover. The band's name came from the fact that our faces are most suitable for the radio

[Malcolm G.]

Great stuff, Jan!

Now get 'em off my car!

[D C Blood]

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Most of the bands I've been in, from 1962 up through the present time...:mandosmiley:
from top left...The Cumberland Mountain Boys, '65 or so..The Log Cabin Boys (USAF-
'71)...Lonnie Jones and The Newgrass Express - apx '80...The Bluegrass Outlaws - apx
'85...Mixt Company. '96-present...

[Jill McAuley]

Great bunch of photos there D C!

Cheers,
Jill

[Mandolin Holm]

Took a photo of my folk duo a few days ago. And I must say it's relevant:
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Content (from upper left):
Levin Octave Mandolin. Sadly, the neck is not in too good condition.
No name mandolin. No idea where it's from. Neck is separated, but otherwise straight, so it could be fixed up.
No name mandolin. From the DDR. Scratched, but otherwise good. Gonna set it up next week.
Ibanez M510BS. Beginner's mandolin, but with a quite good setup, so it plays fine.
Levin mandolin. In great condition, sounds lovely.
Landola mandolin. From Finland. Needs a set-up, but plays fine.
Hora Bouzouki (you only see the head). Surprisingly good for a Hora, but that's not saying much.

No fancy mandolins, but mandolins nonetheless.

[Jim Gallaher]

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[Chris "Bucket" Thomas]

Our band; "Route 58". We play in southeast Virginia (Norfolk, Va. Beach, Chesapeake, Suffolk, Hampton, Newport News & northeast NC).

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[stevenmando]

Great band and your music is great to

[rico mando]

fail :crying:

[Randi Gormley]

We had a group shot taken a while ago and, while not a publicity still, shows the most of us. I have mentioned that we're a community band, right?

[catmandu2]

We had a group shot taken a while ago and, while not a publicity still, shows the most of us. I have mentioned that we're a community band, right?

Wow Randi...that's one helluva ensemble--two accordians (but someone should be sporting a bass!)

[mandobassman]

The Lewis Brothers Bluegrass Band - Philadelphia
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Peter Lorch, Wanamaker Lewis, Larry Hunsberger, Ron Greenstein

[Randi Gormley]

Cat -- the guy on the left is actually standing next to his keyboard, which was put on its side for the shot. Monica (with the piano accordion) says her instrument is misunderstood ... she's also a fine whistle player and plays hammer dulcimer on occasion. When she was a kid, she was one of the Shannon-aires, along with her sister, Loretta (who plays a very nice button box these days and occasionally drops by to play with us. We're helping finance her CD. Our other ringer is another button box player, John Whelan, who runs the local comhaltas and sits in with or teaches us depending on the venue).

[catmandu2]

Well, you don't have to sell me on squeezebox!

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(but still -- someone should have a bass! ;))

[journeybear]

We had a group shot taken a while ago and, while not a publicity still, shows the most of us. I have mentioned that we're a community band, right?

Lawdamercy! If the whole community is in the band, who's in the audience? :confused: And this is just most of you. Tuning up must be fun, as well as arrangements. ;) But at least the mandolin is front row center, as it should be! :mandosmiley:

[greg_tsam]

http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/7466/25156410150263521159154.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/689/25156410150263521159154.jpg/)

Obviously a banjo solo. We rocked the folkgrass!

[Randi Gormley]

Arrangements? Lord, we're an Irish band. We all play the melody! Actually, if we're gigging out, we let people know the date and time and then see who shows up. So at any given gig, we'll have from 2 to 20 people, depending on what the venue is, how much someone wants to spend and how many conflicts there are with other requests. We're really a non-profit, and any money we make playing out we use to sponsor real musicians -- we had Andy Irvine last weekend at a house concert and John Doyle is scheduled for next weekend or three or four. You can find our (real) concert schedule at www.shamrockirishmusic.org (shameless plug)

[Geordie]

Here we are, The Hundred Year Champions in our electric form. That's me playing drums.

There are no mandolins in these pictures, though. That's for the acoustic part of the set.

http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=77145&d=1318371345

http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=77144&d=1318371344

[jim simpson]

We (National Pike Pickers) had a lengthy photo shoot recently and this photo was one in which the photographer removed the background. He sent several with all sorts of wild backgrounds, I liked this one.

[Charles E.]

We just got back from a fall music retreat up in Sparta NC. Winds were gusting up to 30mph that day, so the banjo players husband renamed us The Hickory Mt. Windbreakers. I like The Pungo River Rats better. :)

[Janos]

This is a picture of my band 'Spoor'. It's Dutch and means 'track' but also 'trail'. www.spooronlijn.nl
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[Charles E.]

Janos, I really enjoyed the double bass and mandolin sound clips. This past weekend I stayed up too late playing mandolin and bass as we were the last ones standing. We had a great time.

[Janos]

Thanks Charles! Bass and mandolin is really all you need...

[Backlineman]

My Dad's band The Summer Strummers. Rockin the Chautauqua Institute for many years.

[Jake Wildwood]

Here's the Saturday jam group from last harvest fair:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ckffBh9MRIE/TnqFN0j6XlI/AAAAAAAAOlo/pZ8_dfcBWIM/s1600/oonaloy5.jpg

[Toycona]

Here is "Peninsula Bluegrass Crossing" at a local parish festival (I'm the big mandolin player):

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[Wildeman]

My good friends I get together with from time to time. We call ourselves "Greenwood Forge". We enjoy playing everything from Bluegrass, the Beatles, Gossip, Dylan and a few old wetern cowboy songs. That's me with my 1956 Gibson A style. 79092

[Charles E.]

Just got back from a winter retreat in Bath NC. We had great food, great tunes and a wonderful fellowship.

[Charles E.]

One more......

[disguiseglasses]

Here's a picture of my band - Sideshow Stringband (http://sideshowstringband.bandcamp.com)
GREAT photo!

[brmichaelpaul]

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From a gig in France in 2004

https://www.youtube.com/user/brmichaelpaul?feature=mhee

[Rob Sharer]

Okay, here we go. Craicdown in full cry, featuring meself on flute/fiddle and Jim Roberts on percussion out of the frame). We are being ably supported by member #3, David DiGiuseppe, who is playing his Stephen Owsley Smith Bouzouki. It's a koa killing machine.
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[jim simpson]

Irish band, Black Slaney, playing earlier tonight in concert. My black top Collings seemed appropriate for the band.

[Leverman61]

Here's a recent photo of Panther Hollow String Band , Old Time Quintet from Pittsburgh Pa. 84283

[jim simpson]

Recent photo of National Pike Pickers at Wheeling Jamboree

[jim simpson]

National Pike Pickers last night at Black Sheep Vineyard - a fun gig!

[JeffD]

the banjo players husband renamed us The Hickory Mt. Windbreakers.

:))

Never let a banjo player name the band.

:))

[jim simpson]

We (National Pike Pickers) are in good company on the cover of the supplement to today's Wheeling newspaper, pictured next to Joe Negri.

[Eric C.]

Chu Dat Frawg out of Northeast Ohio.

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[JLeather]

The front and back cover art from our first CD. The band is ClearSpring. The car actually belonged to the guitar player (with the sideburns) at the time. We took it out for pizza after the shoot :)

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[woodwizard]

The Mountain Boomers Old-time String Band ...in Arkansas
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[Bill Snyder]

The front and back cover art from our first CD. The band is ClearSpring. The car actually belonged to the guitar player (with the sideburns) at the time. We took it out for pizza after the shoot :)

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What kind of pizza do old cars like? :)

[Jon Hall]

The Old Town Gospel Project. We are very eclectic in our choice of songs.91335

[JMUSIC]

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The PortO'Johns

[Jack Roberts]

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[Jake Wildwood]

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Here's "The Baba Yagas" at our friends' new restaurant early in the evening -- me on bass, Tom on guitar, JC on accordion. Aside from myself, we switch around a bunch of instruments, too. I could be involved in that too, but bringing that bull fiddle around is work enough for me... :)

[jim simpson]

A friend sent this recent photo of National Pike Pickers to me. Bluegrass Barbeque at end of Sept.

[Ed Goist]

Well, we have a publicity photo, so I guess we are official... Legitimate? That's a wholly different matter. :)
(MC - That Max & Lauri's Girouard 'Mojo' electric tenor guitar prominently featured)

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[Eric C.]

Band pics are so much fun!
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[Jörgen]

Hi there!
Band photos are fun.. hmm.. in our case, well, it's more of a project, or.. hmm well, we call ourselves "Beards'n'Hats".. you'll have to figure out why by yourselves... We're two guys that started to play a little together... we have fun while doing it, and for me that's pretty much what it's all about, ain't it? :)

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[BluegrassPhilfromFrance]

A big HOWDY from France and here is a picture of our band BLUEGRASS 43. More details on http://www.bluegrass43.com and on Facebook.
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[Mandolin Mick]

Well, this is when I was the bass player for Apple Core, a Beatles tribute band here in Milwaukee. This photo is us in 2006 at Summerfest, the world's largest music festival. I'm second from the left.

[jim simpson]

Had a fun gig playing last night on this Memorial Day weekend. It was a little cool temp wise but still good. (Cabin Fever String Band)

[journeybear]

I'm second from the left.

The one playing the Hofner bass. Right! ;)

[lmartnla]

Here are the Grocery Clerks playing a Feedstore concert in ApriL. Anyone is welcome to join us.

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[journeybear]

I guess it's time I posted some pics of my newest band.

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We've been at it for over 100 days, and might last a little longer. People seem to like us all right.

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The thing you're probably wonderiing about, is what we call a trumpazoo. It's a kazoo stuck into the bell end of a slide trombone. Yes, it should be called a trombazoo. It's out of my control, like so much else in this kooky outfit.

[mandolinlee]

Here's a picture of my band: Curly's Country Grass. Since I'm not in the picture, use the photoshop in your brain to duplicate the guy in the red shirt, but w/ a mandolin, not the banjo. It's my twin brother.
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[billhay4]

I can imagine why they call you Curly.
Bill

[mandolinlee]

Hi Bill -
If things keep going as they have, may have to change the name to: Baldy's
Lee

[D18dave]

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The Wild Hares

[Gelsenbury]

Since I'm not in the picture, use the photoshop in your brain to duplicate the guy in the red shirt, but w/ a mandolin, not the banjo. It's my twin brother.

:)) That's a good joke when I needed it! Your band looks good!

[journeybear]

A few photos of my band have been surfacing, and I thought it might be time to post some before they went viral and spiralled out of control. I'm most impressed with the first one, which somehow became pretty psychedelic. :cool: It's possible some of the members had indulged in various uncontrolled substances - not me, though, just a beer or two - but that doesn't explain the prismatic effect, fortunately captured on film. Or pixels, as the case may be. :whistling:

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I like the way the photographer photoshopped the band name into the bell of the trombazoo - not its real size, but distorted by the lens. (That's a kazoo stuck into the slide/bell half of an old trombone. It produces quite a charming racket.) And for your perusement (that's my term combining "perusal" and "amusement"), here's our promo blurb:

The Love Lane Gang plays music that spans generations, as well as embodies them. The emphasis is on swing: classics from the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, done in a refreshing new style that incorporates the Hot Club approach with island flourishes. Dust Bowl ballads, old school country from Hank Williams and Johnny Cash, rockabilly and surf music classics and little-known gems, and tunes from Sixties stars like The Beatles and The Kinks, all fit in alongside original songs that sound like they could have come from any of those eras. Offbeat instrumentation like mandolin, accordion, banjo, ukulele, and washboard add to familiar guitar, bass, and harmonica, creating a broad musical palette which they use to color their performances. But you needn't pay too much mind to all that serious musical analysis - it's just plain fun!

[Cary Fagan]

This is our first year together. The day the photos were taken the bass player broke a string just before the gig and had to use her acoustic bass.103344

[afhusband]

Here we are all gussied up!
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Our good buddy painted this for us. It turned out to be the back cover of our CD!
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http://www.beatgrass.net
https://www.facebook.com/beatgrassband

[Steve Ostrander]

The Lost Hitch Hikers live at the Meridian Heritage Festival

[testore]

103819Red Dog Ash, playing the Fathers Day Festival in Grass Valley two weeks ago. Me playing my newly finished Loar replica.

[jim simpson]

Photo only shows half of the band, we opened the show for West Virginia Day celebrating the 150 year birthday for the state. Later in the evening, kathy Mattea and Johnny Staats band performed with the Wheeling Symphony. We couldn't stick around to hear them as we had another gig to go to in a nearby town. It was great fun for the band.

[Toycona]

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Here are the Offroad Pickers doing their thing at the Woodside Farmers' Market on a really hot day.

[BillD]

From the remote reaches of Virginia's Northern Neck............The Woodshed Conspiracy.
Bucky Beauchamp, Bill Duvall, Suzy Long.104087104088

[journeybear]

A few months ago my swing/jug band decided to busk at Mallory Square during the nightly Sunset Celebration. Solo musicians get short shrift there, and most passersby are attracted to the circus-type acts - jugglers, trained dogs, tumblers, tightrope walkers, and what not - but you get a bunch of scruffly skifflers together, merrily banging away on what-have-you, and you can attract and hold a crowd. We did this twice, and cleaned up both times.

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Due to the artistic process, a bit of clarification might help. I'm the dapper fellow on the left. To the right are ukulele, accordion, and bass; below are washboard and guitar.

[jim simpson]

National Pike Pickers at a great outdoor amphitheater (Oglebay Park, Wheeling, WV) this past Sunday evening.

[jim simpson]

Always wanted to be on TV

[jim simpson]

It was a cool night last night for the National Pike Pickers. We were playing inside the courtyard of the Moundsville Pen in Moundsville, WV. The event was Elizabethtown Festival, Elizabethtown consolidated into Moundsville on February 23, 1866, a little before my time.

[Vernon Hughes]

Here's the band i'm playing with now,we were together for many years back in the 80's and now are doing reunion shows.

[stevedenver]

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hot june day at a pig roast
the 'one time seen' LOL

[D C Blood]

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[Londy]

yeah, great idea for a thread!..... just wish i were in a band :crying:.

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[mandolinlee]

Londy -

You'll be with a "band" of mandolinists at your house Saturday.

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[Londy]

Londy -

You'll be with a "band" of mandolinists at your house Saturday.

Lee

Thanks Lee...and what a band it will be. I look forward to it. Just hope for good weather!

[JeffD]

Yay. I'm in a band.

[Eric C.]

This picture reminds me of the "fight scene" from the movie Anchorman.
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[beenpickin]

Not actually my band but there are a few mandolin players in attendance.107962107963107964107965107966

[Kerry Krishna]

Here is my current band. Raghu Lokanathan playing accordion, 6 string, mandolin (when I am not sometimes) Jim Sales playing fiddle, and me playing guitar, mandolin and trying to work fiddle in a bit too.
Bands name is 'So Long Jake' after Slavik Hanslik's famous song...

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[Spencer]

The Copenhagen Mountain Boys, we've been playing for about 25 years.

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[gummia]

This is a good idea for a thread.
The overalls and the dirt is not a part of our outfit but we did it for fun once. :)

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[Steve Lavelle]

from an FB posting:
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[pickloser]

The Lucky Girls.

[terzinator]

http://splitshotsinkers.com/Images/sss_hires_sans.jpg

http://www.splitshotsinkers.com

[AlanN]

For some reason, that shot reminds me of Who's Next. Nice photo.

[terzinator]

For some reason, that shot reminds me of Who's Next. Nice photo.
Thanks!

But shoot! We should have thought to pee on the side of the house! (Although, it probably would have gotten us shot.)

I see that old abandoned place every time I go to our cabin... never ever see anyone around there. I thought it would make a good backdrop. We took the photo, and as we were leaving, this SUV comes squealing into the dirt road, and this old coot jumps out, looking for trouble. Said he was the owner of the building, and assumed we were vandals or scavengers or whatever.

"Dude, calm down," we said. "We're a little bluegrass outfit from the Twin Cities, and we just wanted to take a photo of the band in front of your cool old house. We'll put you on the guest list for the next show."

He did not find that funny.

[DataNick]

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[Oneida Trail]

The color photo is really great

[Andy Miller]

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https://www.facebook.com/Dog1Bluegrass

[DataNick]

Nice pic Bro!...is that a Givens A model that you're playin?

[Andy Miller]

Nice pic Bro!...is that a Givens A model that you're playin?

Thanks! The mandolin is a Hilburn.

[DataNick]

High Mountain Road at The Viking Fest in Vista, CA Sept 2013

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https://www.facebook.com/HighMountainRoad?ref=stream

[jim simpson]

Cabin Fever String Band playing at the Black Sheep Vineyard in Adena, Ohio. New room and stage at the Black Sheep.

[SkitownPicker]

Old Town Pickers - Halloween 2012

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[calgary.fiddler]

Here's a picture of my band Whiskeyjack. (Needless to say I'm the mandolin player :mandosmiley: )

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[DataNick]

Old Town Pickers - Halloween 2012

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Bluegrass KISS! I love it!....LOL!

[Michael Bridges]

"I wanna Bluegrass Stomp all night
And party every day" Pretty cool!
Old Town Pickers - Halloween 2012

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[BenShavers]

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http://youtu.be/WD5jZKVOnJk

http://youtu.be/KDnRdxS_tIE

[Pushka]

http://pushka.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/sunday-assembly.jpg

You're my best friend - Queen (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-1afut6UOs)

[Eric C.]

Here's a neat little promotional photo from a live session we played a month or so ago.
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[Lord of the Badgers]

Here's the five piece (most recent photo):
http://modfolk.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/eol54071.jpg

Here's a pic with the 6.5 piece
http://modfolk.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/m-o-d.jpg

And a studio shot of the actual 7 piece
http://modfolk.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/dsc04329.jpg

[Gelsenbury]

Custom Phil Davidson mandolin ... I'm allowed to dream, no? :whistling:

[Lord of the Badgers]

Custom Phil Davidson mandolin ... I'm allowed to dream, no? :whistling:

the next one is more custom than that... the one in my sig is 20 years old.. The Cub will be all my spec with inputs from the man himself and his lovely lady (badger... cub... geddit)

obviously the latter pic is the breedlove, the former, that's the davidson - it's mostly the headstock that's different to his mandos of that period. that's when I'll say goodbye to the breedlove. no more than two mandos at a time for me.

[Jeff Richards]

Yet another all around entertaining thread here at the cafe. Thanks everyone!

[Lord of the Badgers]

I was thinking our own cd/lp/cassette/hologram album cover art next Jeff

[resophonic]

A friend of ours took this picture and then had a bit of fun with it.

Fiddlin' Banjo Billy Mathews and the Old Time Players.

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[jim simpson]

Today the National Pike Pickers were in good company on the front page of our town's entertainment supplement, TGIF. There's Joe Negri and Larry Stephenson Band. My wife and I just got back from the Larry Stephenson Show - a great night of entertainment!

[journeybear]

The Love Lane Gang has shown up in a few pix over the last few months ...

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Just so you know - I am having the time of my life in all these photos. If I'm not smiling, it's because I am concentrating so hard on making the right sounds come out of the mandolin and make everyone happy. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it. :mandosmiley:

[journeybear]

Also, some new pix of Southernmost Magnolia ...

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We have two bass players, who switch between our two gigs. It's complicated ... :whistling:

[Wesley]

So I guess now that Scott Wilson isn't on the Walking Dead anymore he's playing pedal steel guitar with your group?

[John Soper]

The Hollow Rock Ramblers (aka Carson and the Combovers). As Carson and the Combovers, along with our pal Pooh Johnston on bass, we previously achieved a ten way tie for fourth place at the Watermelon Park Bluegrass Festival bluegrass band contest. The contest consisted of thirteen bands playing one song each. While the prize-winning band practiced their song and harmony over and over backstage, we kissed babies, drank beer, slapped backs and pumped fists with a variety of friends, fans and fanatics in an effort to curry favor. We also had to decide on a tune to play... The boys chose the old Bob Wills favorite "Sooner or Later". Unfortunately one of the babies kissed may have had an amorous connection to the judges of the contest.

Marty Grosz, our mentor in things musical, in a recap of the event, asked why a swing band would participate in a bluegrass festival. “Thousand dollars first prize” was the resounding answer. Marty continued: “ who played banjo?” . . . . “No banjo player . . .” and then Marty pressed on, “who’d you have on fiddle?” “ . . . no fiddler . . .” “And your song was a western swing song?”

But Marty, who in the world has ever heard of a swing string band contest?

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[Pushka]

Me and some friends have just started a Pony band in Australia ~

http://pushka.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/00.jpg

http://pushka.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/13.jpg

[DougC]

114558I'm a little late to this thread but I really like the stories and history behind all of these pictures!
So, not to be 'out done' by some of you creative posers, I have a fun foto here.

Our accordion player did some break dancing WITH the accordion. I might add he can still walk and sit up straight. ha, ha.
Also we are a klezmer band, that hammered dulcimer is called a tsimbl or cymbolim. Oh, I'm not in the picture! No mandolin, I was behind the camera.

[Randi Gormley]

A piece of our group played a house party over the weekend -- here's what we look like being all professional (or something). Sorry if it's a little dark. Our singer took it with an iPhone as he went off to play at another party.

[Lord of the Badgers]

At last a shot with our current lineup fully intact!
http://modfolk.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/modsmaller.jpg

[NovelDrive]

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When Novel Drive won the talent show this year :mandosmiley:

[MesaZak]

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The Dirt Road band

[Tom Morse]

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"Home By Eight"

[jim simpson]

National Pike Pickers playing earlier tonight at Artworks in Wheeling, WV

[Jessbusenitz]

118282 Here's our latest.... All brothers 'cept the banjo player..... guess he would be the outlaw...:mandosmiley:

[Gelsenbury]

Great picture! It must be a lot of fun making music with your brothers.

[journeybear]

After my band played at The Green Parrot on Cinco De Mayo, we had to move the piano out. But instead of just driving it back to Love Lane Gang HQ, we decided to drive around town a bit and make a commotion. So we all piled in and drove up and down Duval Street a couple of times, playing our Mexican songs merrily as we rolled along. Fortunately the driver picked up on our pleas to drive more slowly so our sombreros didn't go flying away and we didn't tumble out of the truck. Glad to see someone sent us a few photos of this impromptu parade. Sorry the photos are a bit dark - it was dusk.

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[Rich Hoffman]

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10 Gallon Heart

[journeybear]

I've touched these photos up a bit in PhotoShop, and hopefully it's a little easier to see what's going on.119406119407119408119409

Visible in # 1 are our washboard, kazoo, and ukulele player, playing what we call the trombazoo (the bell half or a trombone, with a kazoo stuck into the tub.e), our ukulele player (far side of the truck, with a big smile), the bass player (back to us), the guitarist at the wheel, and yours truly. Barely visible in #2 and #3 is the head of the pianist, a drag queen of note hereabouts. Not seen is the drummer, probably back at the club packing his gear or otherwise being responsible. Yes, he's exceptional. ;)

[masa618]

Hello, We are the bluegrass band named " The All That Grass" of Aichi,Japan.
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[keithb]

I can't get the other guys to pose for more "formal" pictures, and this is before I picked up the mandolin, but why not:

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We call ourselves Highway's End (http://highwaysend.com)

[ColoradoMando]

Based out of Boulder, Colorado. Timber!119553

[Jonathan Bailey]

Here's a pic of my band, Subtle Clutch. Feel free to give us a google or check out our Facebook page. We are all only 15 and 16 and have been having quite the time playing together the past few months!

[F-2 Dave]

So I guess now that Scott Wilson isn't on the Walking Dead anymore he's playing pedal steel guitar with your group?

It's Hershel!

[Brian Shaw]

ContraDiction College Station, TX
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[Austin Clark]

Limehouse!119677

[journeybear]

It's Hershel!

I had to look back through the thread to find out what you guys meant, and it was my band! :disbelief: Good call! It is indeed Hershel, who is not dead, but has become the legendary Man From Maine, star of many a shaggy dog story and rambling joke.

I was curious to hear some bluegrass from Japan, and found a video of All That Grass (post#) backing up someday. You guys sound good - solid and tight. Keep it up!

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=714143381949543

[Jan Viljoen]

Hi guys, I am from South Africa.

I was asked to play in a Folk Music competition and our band Wadrif (which means a wagon way through a river) came second last Saturday.
The traditional song rules are no drums, no electric guitars, no 7ths or 9ths, etc. The song must be played as the original composer intended.
We had a double bass with bow and mandolin.
So it is a test for perfection.

I play on a locally built F mandolin and my strap is African Buffalo with no metal clasps. Top spruce, back and sides Boekenhout Faurea saligna, binding Yellow wood Podocarpus latifolius.

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Here we play and receive our certificates. Pardon the bad photos.

[journeybear]

Some more pictures from our Cinco De Mayo "parade." This is just from the staging area, loading up and heading off.Now you get to see our piano player in full regalia. And me again, looking like I'm having the time of my life. I was, actually, just being very cool. :cool:

[Jan Viljoen]

Hi blokes,

While I am at it, I want to post a few recent band photos where I played different mandolins, guitar and a Sierra S10 pedal steel.

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;)

[journeybear]

Accordion AND concertina? You guys are wild!

[Jan Viljoen]

Thanks, in the picture bottom left we even have a small portable reed organ.
The instruments take turns to lead, and the other is comping, etc, while the audience dances.

Check out my other band competition post, we have a double bass with bow and mandolin as well.

:cool:

In this picture I play the Red Devil with the same accordion player. We can rock as well.
I play through a Roland cube 80xl amp, curtsey (sp) of the Steel Guitar Forum.
Sorry my first language is Afrikaans.

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Let the games begin!

[JeffD]

Some more pictures from our Cinco De Mayo "parade."

That looks like so much fun. Really fun. I know you don't need another mandolinner, but there is a band I could find a place in. I could run coffee and pick up dropped picks.

[journeybear]

Well, I'm pretty good on picks, but the guitar player is anther story. However, I could probably use a mandolin techie to change strings when I break one, which is all too often. Probably still not busy enough for a full-timer, but you can keep occupied with other small tasks - make sure everyone has a beer (including yourself), pass the tip bucket around now and then, get pretty girls' - well, women's - phone numbers, stuff like that ... :whistling:

And yes, it was a lot of fun. I've no idea why I don't seem to be smiling, 'cause I was just cracking up. :) :grin: :))

[Dave Greenspoon]

These are from two different congregations I served. The first is with The Not Ready for Purim Time Players after our vaunted Megillah-Stock session. The second is with The Jewdles, after The Magical Megillah Tour. The photos from the O Esther Where Art Thou by the SoggyMatzahs (Live from the Brokeback Mountain JCC!) were deemed to racy for this family-oriented website.
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[journeybear]

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[journeybear]

I present to you a minor mystery, The Case Of The Disappearing Band:

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First the banjo player went off the deep end ..... then the bass player self-destructed ..... leaving us four (plus a couple-few more recent additions). Hmmm ... wonder who'll be next? :confused:

Thing is, in order to be able to provide publicity photos to the press that reflected the current lineup, I had to look around a bit to find photos in which the former members weren't smack dab in the middle, and so could be edited out. It was a little tricky, and it so happened that this photo worked well for this purpose. Nothing much I could do about the color saturation, though ... ;)

[Misty Stanley-Jones]

The Bumsteaders!
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I think y'all can spot me. That's my husband Andrew on the bass. We are missing our guitar player, who is in Europe for the winter (summer there).

[Pete Jenner]

I'll keep my eye out for you Misty. Do you get to any festivals?

[Misty Stanley-Jones]

Just got some new photos!
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[Misty Stanley-Jones]

We are strictly small-time and have done a few small gigs around Brisbane, Pete. We only have enough for about a 30 minute set right now! The band has been going for about a year but I just joined in a couple months ago.

[resophonic]

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Fiddlin' Banjo Billy Mathews and The Old Time Players perform at the Ozark Folk Center in Mountain View, AR

[Robert Smyth]

We are Way Out West! I'm pretty sure we're the western most bluegrass band in the contiguous United States as we're from Humboldt County, California. We play bluegrass and cowboy songs so I call it Cowgrass!

[jim simpson]

Fun gig tonight in the hills of WV (Cameron) for National Pike Pickers:

[Patrick Bouldin]

Howdy!
Here are the "Quibble Brothers", in Dallas.
http://www.QuibbleBrothers.com

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Patrick

[Bobbie Dier]

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Fiddlin' Carson Peters Band

[Denman John]

Back Porch Slammers

Playing our first gig together this weekend and took a few pictures at practice last night. Mando content: I'm playing a Nyberg OM and my son, Tai, is playing a Pomeroy.

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[billhay4]

Lookin' good. Ya'll send me your shoe sizes and I'll go on down to Goodwill for you.
Bill

[Charles E.]

Interesting instrumentation, would love to hear you guy's.

[Gerry Cassidy]

Here's a recent one of a band I play in: CAVU! Ceiling And Visibility Unlimited (an aeronautical acronym)

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I am the chubby fella' in the upper left with the headstock of my Arches FTO sticking out. The chubby fella' sitting next to me is actually playing the cello, and quite well at that.

These whackos are a fun bunch to make music with. It's all original music and we would probably be categorized in the Americana genre'.

[Russ Jordan]

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New 5 Cents Bluegrass Band, western NC.

[JeffD]

:)

[Samuel David Britton]

Picture of the church band I play in performing our Christmas set.
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