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really large version of the band-Cedar Cultural Center, Mpls, June 2003
SOME PAST GIGS All
in Minneapolis unless otherwise noted
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February 2003 - Viking
Bar every
Wednesday 2/6/2000 Cabooze Mpls Battle 5/27/2001 Amazing Grace,Duluth Battle 9/9/2001 Neighborhood Tavern, Effie, MN Battle 2/10/2002The Cabooze Mpls Battte 5/??/2002Amazing Grace,Duluth Battle 9/??/2002 Neighborhood Tavern, Effie, MN Battle  click to
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Wednesday, May 16, 2001 8:10pm at the Viking: John,Ludwig, Bob, Doug, Joyce, Randy, probably Kris and Sarita in the booth, & Al on his way in from work. 2/2/2003 The Cabooze Mpls Battte 5/25/2003 Amazing Grace,Duluth Battle 6/22/03 Cedar Cultural Center (Al's Benefit) 6/28/2003 Viking Bar 7/2/2003 Viking Bar 8/6/2003 Viking Bar 8/28/2003 Molly Quinn's 9/3/2003 Viking Bar 9/7/2003 Neighborhood Tavern, Effie, MN Battle / Deer Lake Boogie 9/12/2003 Riverview Cafe 10/1/2003 Viking Bar 10/2/2003 Molly Quinn's 10/9/2003 Molly Quinn's 10/28/2003 Block Party, Northeast Minneapolis 11/05/2003 Viking Bar 11/14/2003 Riverview Cafe 12/3/2003 Viking Bar 12/12/2003 Riverview Cafe  UPCOMING: Sunday after Labor Day Effie, MN Jug Band Boogie Battle, Neighborhood Tavern (click on picture for map) 1/7/2004 Viking Bar
1/16/2004 Riverview Cafe 2/4/2004 Viking Bar 2/13/2004 Riverview Cafe 2/8/2004 The Cabooze Mpls Battte 3/3/2004 Viking Bar 4/1/2004 Molly Quinn's 4/7/2004 Viking Bar 4/15/2004 Molly Quinn's 4/24/2004 Riverview Cafe 4/29/2004 Molly Quinn's 5/5/2004 Viking Bar 5/13/2004 Molly Quinn's 5/27/2004 Molly Quinn's 5/30/2004 Amazing Grace,Duluth Battle 6/2/2004 Viking Bar 6/10/2004 Molly Quinn's 6/11/2004 Riverview Cafe 6/24/2004 Molly Quinn's 7/2/2004 Riverview Cafe 7/7/2004 Viking Bar 7/8/2004 Molly Quinn's 7/22/2004 Molly Quinn's 8/4/2004 Viking Bar 8/5/2004 Molly Quinn's 8/7/2004 St. Paul Farmer's Market 8/19/2004 Molly Quinn's 8/27/2004 Riverview Cafe 9/1/2004 Viking Bar 9/2/2004 Molly Quinn's 9/12/2004 Neighborhood Tavern, Effie, MN Battte 9/16/2004 Molly Quinn's 9/30/2004 Molly Quinn's |
10/6/2004 Viking Bar 10/14/2004 Molly Quinn's 10/28/2004 Molly Quinn's 11/3/2004 Viking Bar 11/05/2004 Riverview Cafe 11/11/2004 Molly Quinn's 11/15/2004 Molly Quinn's (Benefit for Annie Young, Green Party candidate for Park Commissioner) 11/19/2004 Baja Riverside Grill (Benefit for Dean Zimmerman, Green candidiate for City Council) 12/1/2004 Viking Bar 12/9/2004 Molly Quinn's 12/17/2004 Riverview Cafe 1/5/2005 Viking Bar 1/6/2005 Molly Quinn's 2/2/2005 Viking Bar 2/3/2005 Molly Quinn's 3/2/2005 Viking Bar 3/10/2005 Molly Quinn's 4/1/2005 Riverview Cafe 4/6/2005 Viking Bar 4/14/2005 Molly Quinn's 5/4/2005 Viking Bar 5/27/2005 Riverview Cafe 5/29/2005 Amazing Grace,Duluth Battle 6/1/2005 Viking Bar 6/4-5/2005 Mesaba Park, Hibbing,MN Jug Band Camp 6/26/2005 Floyd's Bar, Victoria MN Jug Battle 7/6/2005 Viking Bar 8/3/2005 Viking Bar 9/7/2005 Viking Bar 9/11/2005 Neighborhood Bar, Effie, MN Battte 9/18/2005 Private Party, Minnneapolis 10/5/2005 Viking Bar 11/2/05 Viking Bar 12/7/2005 Viking Bar 1/4/2006 Viking Bar 2/1/2006
Viking Bar
2/12/2006 The Cabooze,Mpls Battte 3/8/2006 Viking Bar 4/5/2006 Viking Bar 5/3/2006 Viking Bar 5/28/2006 Amazing Grace,Duluth Battle 6/7/2006 Viking Bar 6/287/2006 Minnesota Museum of American Arts, St Paul, MN 7/5/2006 Viking Bar 7/7/2006 Hat Trick Lounge, St Paul, MN 7/9/2006 Floyd's Bar, Victoria MN Battle 8/4/2006 Riverview Cafe and Wine Bar 8/19/2006 West Bank Community Gardens 9/10/2006 Neighborhood Bar, Effie, MN Battte 9/15/2006 Riverview Cafe and Wine Bar 10/21/2006 Wytts End Bar Waconia, MN 10/29/2006 Eagle's Club (Benefit for Carla Beaudet) 2/11/2007 The Cabooze,Mpls Battte 3/7/2007 Midtown Market 4/11/2007 Cedar Cultural Center (Open Stage Appearance) 5/27/2007 Amazing Grace Coffeehouse,Duluth MN Battle 6/9/2007 Global Midtown Market 6/16/2007 Global Midtown Market 7/5/07 Merlin's Rest Pub 7/10/07 Desnoyer Park Community Picnic, St. Paul, MN 7/28/07 Kingfield Farmer's Market 8/18/2007 West Bank Community Gardens 8/26/07 Kingfield Farmer's Market 8/29/2007 Minnehaha Park Bandshell 9/9/2007 Neighborhood Tavern, Effie, MN Battte 9/30/2007 Eagle's Club (Benefit for Big Bob Flitcroft)  |
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~2008 Notes
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MINNEAPOLIS BATTLE  We managed to
not win
(again) at the Battle of
the Jugbands in 2008, the waffle iron returning to 2006
Winners Gramma's Saggy Jug. We did however manage to have a great time,
with Sarita rejoining us on tub bass and Tony
Paul on hand drums. We made up a brand new fake name for this
year:the Spontaneous Interjections. "They's good horses, ain't they" 
July 13th Floyd's Bar
Only Al and Ludwig were able to make it out there last year. The same thing happened with last years winners, Slipped-A-Mickey, so we pasted the pieces together, forming something like Fat Mickey, or Slipped-A-Chance for the duration.  We played at the Festival for the very first time last year. We did two "Marketplace" all-acoustic sets: Friday 10 am and 5 pm, and a couple of tunes between main stage acts at 1.30pm, too. Bob
and Pam participated in a bass demonstration between mainstage acts at
7.50pm. On Sunday, Al did a "Playing the Jug" workshop. The
Festival ran Thursday thru Sunday. Former Fat Chance Jug Band
member Adam
emceed one night and told some really bad jokes.
 By gum, we played for an actual
dance!
The other bands were terrific
Cajun groups.On Saturday, Nov 1, we played at a benefit for Amy Sabrina at the Eagles Club, along with “The Bayou Boys”(a mish-mash of members from the Twin Cities Playboys and Cajun Hot Soles) and The New Riverside Ramblers click
on the picture to go to Amy's website–>
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2007
In the fall of '07,
Ludwig, Kris, Randy, Bob and Al (along with Neptune
and
Wooly-his last road trip) made it up to Effie for our annual end o'
summer tradition of playing at the Edge
of the Wilderness Jug Band Boogie (the
8thAnnual) at theNeighborhood Tavern
in
Effie.
 Once again we returned WITHOUT the coveted fish skinner  trophy, but we had a swell time anyhow.
We had a
great time playing music around the campfire as well as at Deer Lake
Charlie's (aka the Dome) the nights before.
Kudos to Marshall
and
Gail
for
their wonderful hospitality up on Deer Lake . . . And their little
dog Mary Lou.The show at St. Paul's Desnoyer Park Summer Picnic on July 10, 2007 was another comfortable one for us - and  them -
when they finally took a chance with us after years of booking bands
that were way too loud for a neighborhood event. We even got to play in
a cool bandshell that projected the sound acoustically quite
well with no 'lectricity.
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HAUNTED!
 At
our practice on October 30, 2007–the day before Hallowe'en– we were
visited by a mysterious and mute washtub - playing, beer swilling
ghost. The ghost
disappeared
back into the spirit world (via the front door) as suddenly and
silently
as it arrived after its spooky haunted washtub fell apart a second
time...
It was
all quite unnerving.
Bowers succombs to temptation! More
Bass-ic Events
 Once
again we were visited by a bass player at a practice, this time not
from the spirit world, but from the even errier bluegrass world, when
Pam Bowers sat in with us at a January practice with her real stand up bass.
The photo
shows Ludwig introducing her to the world of washtub bass, so confusing
her that she was trying to play her bass backwords.
After sitting in with us at several sessions, Pam has recently consented to "join" (whatever that means) the jug band, which means that we no longer have to play bottomless most of the time.   At the 2007 Duluth Battle we came in third, behind a group
made up of former members of the Bo Conrad Spit Band
called Hot Spit, and Slipped- A-Mickey, who'd managed to take home
the coveted G.I. Mess-kit trophy at the 5th
Annual Victoria Jug Battle (pictured) a month later. |
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