2026 Artists

Piedmont Bluz Acoustic Duo
(Headliner)

Featuring Valerie and Benedict Turner, Piedmont Bluz Acoustic Duo are dedicated ambassadors of country blues, Piedmont-style fingerpicking and traditional roots percussion. Through a blend of performance and education, the duo works to preserve and promote these vital elements of African American culture. The Turners previously performed for the Jubilee at Summer Swing, the 2024 mini festival we hosted with the Louisville Folk School in Douglass Park.

George Street Jug Stompers

Bio coming soon.

Chattanooga Sheiks

Bio coming soon.

Cincinnati Dancing Pigs
(Cincinnati, OH)

The Cincinnati Dancing Pigs are Cincinnati’s premier jug band. They have been around since the early years of the Rolling Stones, have lasted longer than the Beatles and have more living members than the Grateful Dead. In the Cincinnati Enquirer they were once compared to the Julliard String Quartet, although not favorably. They have played at every Tall Stacks, at the Cincinnati Bicentennial Celebration, for the runners in the Flying Pig Marathon, many times in the summer concert series at the amphitheater in Eden Park, for the Art Museum, for a sit down dinner on the observation deck of the Carew Tower, and in many bars, back yards and living rooms throughout the area. From country club weddings to pig roasts to 4th of July parties, they have shamelessly wound up audiences at every variety of event.

The Jake Leg Stompers 
(Knoxville, TN)

The Jake Leg Stompers evoke the rebellious spirit and colorful pageantry of American popular music before the Second World War, from the Memphis blues to the Virginia Reel; when jazz began, vaudeville was urgent and folk music was still dangerous.

From their headquarters in Bucksnort, Tennessee, the Jake Leg Stompers serve up tangy tastes of chicken-fried, pre-war, hokum-billy jug music to gourmet audiences everywhere.

Possum Holler Reclamators

Bio coming soon.

Juggernaut Jug Band
(Louisville, KY)

What do you get when you blend jazz, blues and ragtime with washboards, washtubs, kazoos, jugs and various other sundry hardware? Nothing less than a strange concoction called the Juggernaut Jug Band. Based out of Louisville, Kentucky, the Juggernauts have proudly kept early twentieth century jug music alive and well since 1965, when four high school lads discovered that jug band music made them feel just fine. Six decades of continuous entertainment from the birthplace of jug band music.

The Significant Otters Jug Band

Bio coming soon.