Type: Interactive Performance
Topic(s): Arts
Tags: jug band music home-made instruments
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
California Jug Band Association
The CJBA promotes, encourages, fosters, and cultivates the preservation, appreciation, understanding, enjoyment, support, and performance of jug band music as an original American musical art form; other genres of music similar in style and execution including jook, hokum, spasm, skiffle, washboard, and medicine show music are also loved and appreciated.
http://www.jugfest.org/