Bay Area Maker Faire: May 19-20, 2007, San Mateo Fairgrounds

Maker Faire Bay Area 2007
Tarantulas Jug Band

Maker Faire Outdoor Stage , Saturday 12:45 PM

Early 20th-century musicians began playing on cigar boxes, washboards, and so on. Hear ragtime, tin-pan-alley, Delta blues, rockabilly, and work songs on homemade jug-band instruments.

Web site: http://www.demtarantulas.com

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Type: Interactive Performance

Topic(s): Arts

Tags: jug band music home-made instruments

About the Maker(s)

The Tarantulas Jug Band is the official music-maker of Henry Coe State Park, playing good-time music from the 1920s to the 1950s on homemade and antique string and percussion instruments.

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