Jubilee 2016 – Saturday, September 17th
Mark Your Calendars!
Jubilee 2016 will be held on
Saturday, September 17th
at Brown Forman Amphitheater
in Louisville, Ky’s Waterfront Park
right next to the decoratively-lit Big-4 Bridge
It’s FREE, Family Friendly, Fun…
and nestled into Waterfront Park’s beautiful Brown-Forman Amphitheater,
11th Annual National Jug Band Jubilee Bringing Fun Downtown
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11th Annual National Jug Band Jubilee Bringing Fun Downtown
LOUISVILLE, KY, (August 15, 2015) – The 2015 National Jug Band Jubilee takes place at the Brown-Forman Amphitheater on Saturday, September 19. This is the festival’s 11th anniversary and the organizers have a few special treats for fans this year. The highlight of the 2015 National Jug Band Jubilee will be recognition of the 50th anniversary of the Juggernaut Jug Band. Formed at Waggener High School in 1965, the Juggernaut members have spread the gospel of jug band music throughout the nation through their concerts, workshops, and volunteer work. The Juggernaut Jug Band is also one of two bands, the Cincinnati Dancing Pigs being the other, who have performed at every National Jug Band Jubilee!
The 2015 National Jug Band Jubilee also has a lot of other fun scheduled. In addition to hosting […]
2015’s Jubilee Schedule
1PM – Bourbonville Buskers – Louisville, KY
2PM – Bones, Jugs N Harmony – Urbana, IL
3PM – Cincinnati Dancing Pigs – Cincinnati, OH
4PM – WORKSHOP
5PM – Side Street Steppers – Memphis, TN
6PM – How Long Jug Band – Portland, OR
7PM – Ever-Lovin’ Jug Band – Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
8PM – Steel City Jug Slammers – Birmingham, AL
9PM – Juggernaut Jug Band – Louisville, KY
10PM – The Gallus Brothers – Bellingham, WA
Sat, Sep 19 announced as 2015 Jubilee!
Mark Your Calendars!
Jubilee 2015 will be held on
Saturday, September 19th
at Brown Forman Amphitheater
in Louisville, Ky’s Waterfront Park
right next to the decoratively-lit Big-4 Bridge
It’s FREE, Family Friendly, Fun…
and nestled into Waterfront Park’s beautiful Brown-Forman Amphitheater,
The Juggernaut Jug Band: More than just a sense of humor and cool names
A club owner in Bloomington, Ind., hired the Juggernaut Jug Band because she felt her customers wanted a break from the “heavy” music they’d been hearing.
Those customers – if they’ve been force – fed the Curt Kobain – influenced whining that inhabits much of today’s popular music – likely will be caught completely off-guard by the Juggernauts’ retro look, the array of tools with which they attack their craft and their generally positive outlook.
“We are a good-time group,” explained Gil Fish, who plays bass and a handful of other instruments and has been a Juggernaut since 1968. “So much music nowadays is such a downer. It’s full of angst, and this is good-time music.”
Ditto for fiddle player Tin Pan Alan. “So much happens to make you sad. It’s not that we’re trying to block that out – we’re just trying to provide a vacation from it.”
And the 50-year-old Roscoe Goose, who helped […]
New headstone to honor early blues guitarist
Pioneering Louisville blues guitarist Sylvester Weaver — promoted as “The Man with the Talking Guitar” when he recorded in the 1920s in New York — will receive an encore tribute Saturday.
Member of the Kentuckiana Blues Society and organizers of the annual Jug Band Jubilee waterfront festival held each September in Louisville will hold a public dedication ceremony for a new illustrated headstone for Weaver (1896-1960) on his birthday, July 25, at Louisville Cemetery.
Weaver, who grew up on Finzer Street in the Smoketown neighborhood, also “discovered” Louisville jazz singer Helen Humes and recorded with her, says Keith Clements, a Blues Society leader. Humes went on to become a famed jazz vocalist who was a featured soloist with the Count Basie Orchestra.
While Weaver’s achievements were not widely known after his initial splash, local […]