Jug band music - a boot-stomping offshoot of jazz and blues that involves alternative instruments like, say, a jug, a comb or some Kleenex - might be familiar to a fair amount of Bay Area residents ...

For a few hours in August 2025, Abbott Square might as well have been in the Deep South in the '30s. What could have brought ...

Everybody knows these days how changes in taste and technology can ravage whole styles of popular music. But the same forces can also give obscure antiques a fresh sheen and unprecedented vitality.

For a group as colorful and influential as it was, the Jim Kweskin Jug Band had a rather dubious start. Maynard Solomon, cofounder of Vanguard Records, had seen Kweskin perform at Club 47 in Cambridge ...

They’re gettin’ juggy with it! An international assembly of jug bands will roll into Red Hook’s Jalopy Theatre this month for a two-day festival of old-timey music. The first “Mid-Winter Jug Band ...

Pete Devine, the front man of Devine's Jug Band, is the hardest-working jug blower in San Francisco. As a major player in jug band music's contemporary revival, he wants his listeners to enjoy the ...

The History Press of Charleston, S. C. got in touch two years ago with Jones about writing the book Jug music is associated with mountain music, but Michael L. Jones says it can be traced to Africa ...

"If you believe in magic, don't bother to choose / If it's jug band music, or rhythm and blues / Just go and listen, it'll start with a smile / It won't wipe off your face no matter how hard you try," ...

They are a local treasure, a labor of musical love. Hutchins Consort, a troupe of dedicated, quirky intellectuals who happen to master eight differently scaled violins from tiny to humongous, put on ...