Post a picture of your band!!

[journeybear]

Also, some new pix of Southernmost Magnolia ...



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

[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?

[Pushka]

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

[DougC]

I'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!

[NovelDrive]

When Novel Drive won the talent show this year

[MesaZak]

The Dirt Road band

[Tom Morse]

"Home By Eight"

[jim simpson]

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

[Jessbusenitz]

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

[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.

[Rich Hoffman]

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.

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.
Masatoshi Inaba,

[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:



We call ourselves Highway's End

[ColoradoMando]

Based out of Boulder, Colorado. Timber!

[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

[Austin Clark]

Limehouse!

[journeybear]

It's Hershel!

I had to look back through the thread to find out what you guys meant, and it was my band! 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.





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