Friday, Sept 17, 8pm-10pm - $10 adults, $6 kids
James Reams & The Barnstormers

Traditional bluegrass music by the band that offers, as one bluegrass festival emcee put it, “charismatic bluegrass at its finest!” Their album Barnstormin' was selected by WKCR-FM as one of the top 12 bluegrass releases of 2001 and another album (James Reams, Walter Hensley & The Barons of Bluegrass) was nominated by the IBMA as a Recorded Event of the Year in 2003.

Saturday, Sept 18
12:30pm-10pm - $3
(that's right: three dollars)

12:30 - 1:40 – Workshops - 1st session

• Bluegrass Harmony Singing – Bob Green
• Old-Time Banjo – Marc Horowitz
• Guitar Maintenance & Repair – Bob Jones
• Harmonica –Trip Henderson (bring an A diatonic harp)

1:50 - 3:00 – Workshops - 2nd session

• Fiddle – Bill Christophersen
• Introduction to Mandolin – Dave Howard
• Songs of the Old South – Alan Friend
• Fingerpicking Guitar Styles – Texas Leroy

12:30 - 6:00 (and beyond) ---- Jamming

5:00 - 6:00 – What’s for Dinner, Grandpa?
(Vittles in the sunroom)

6:00 - 10:15 ---- Concerts
(Note: order of performances subject to change)

• 6:00-6:35 John & Ellen Wright
• 6:40-7:15 Major Contay and the Canebrake Rattlers
• 7:20-7:35 Presentation of Brown Jug (see below)
• 7:40-8:15 Rafe Stefanini
• 8:20-8:55 Southern Schoolhouse Rascals
• 9:00-9:35 Wild Bill Jones
• 9:40-10:15 Orpheus Supertones

(see below for information about the performers)

Location:

53 Prospect Park West at 2nd Street in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

Directions:

Subway:

• Q train to 7th Avenue station in Brooklyn
• F train to 7th Avenue
• 2 or 3 train to Grand Army Plaza

Bus:

• B69 to Prospect Park West and 2nd Street
• B75 to Prospect Park West and 9th Street
• B41 or B71 to Grand Army Plaza
• B67 to 7th Av and 2nd Street

The jamboree would not be possible without the generous support of the fine folks at:

• Warren Lewis Realty
• Liberty Heights Tap Room
• Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture
• The Clay Pot (sponsor of the Brown Jug)
• Naidre's eat drink smile
• D'Addario
• Astoria Federal Savings
• Park Slope Civic Council
• NY Pinewoods Folk Music Society
• HelloBrooklyn.com

The Brown Jug is given each year to a person who has made a significant and continuing contribution to old-time and/or bluegrass music in the Northeast.

The Performers:

James Reams & The Barnstormers: Originally from eastern Kentucky, James Reams came to Brooklyn 20 years ago and has been gaining recognition both in his adopted home city as well as nationwide. The band was nominated as Emerging Artist of the Year by the International Bluegrass Music Association. Bluegrass Unlimited magazine (often called the "bible of bluegrass music") wrote, "There are few vocalists as natural as Reams. He doesn't have to try to sound down-home, he's there at each turn in the song."

Rafe Stefanini: Originally from Italy, his love for American old-time music was what first brought him to these shores; he is one of the most respected interpreters of fiddle music from the South. Need we say more?

Orpheus Supertones: Individually, they are Walt Koken, Clare Milliner, Kellie Allen and Pete Peterson, each with a long history and vast knowledge of old-time music; collectively, they are a band not to be missed – in their only NYC appearance.

The Southern Schoolhouse Rascals are Gil Sayre, Ambrose Verdibello, Dave Howard, Ray Alden and Pat Plankey, a group of multi-instrumentalists with lifetimes of experience in the culture, history and music of the American South, who play an exciting, rousing set of music.

Wild Bill Jones features fiddler Bill Christophersen and multi-instrumentalists Rhys and Christina Jones. Their sound draws on a range of old-time influences from Arthur Smith to Chirps Smith to Hobart Smith to Smith's Garage Fiddle Band. If it sounds like a Smith, it's probably Wild Bill Jones.

Major Contay and the Canebrake Rattlers (Pat Conte, Bill Dillof, Tom Legenhausen and Mark Farrell) is a legendary New York stringband channeling old-time songs and dance music of the rural South from rare sound recordings of the golden era on authentic period instruments.

Ellen and John Wright are faculty members at Northwestern University who play and sing old-time music around the country. John is also the author of Traveling the High Way Home: Ralph Stanley and the World of Traditional Bluegrass Music; Ellen is working on an as-told-to biography of Roni Stoneman, "First Lady of Banjo" and 20-year star of Hee-Haw.

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