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Affilliated bands

Washboard Rhythm Co.

Berkeley, CA — Ragtime blues, jazz, and old time from Northern California


https://www.instagram.com/washboardrhythmco/

The Rivertown Skifflers

Sonoma/Marin County, CA — For the better part of a decade, the Rivertown Skifflers have been delighting Northern California with their upbeat take on jug band music.

https://www.rivertownskifflers.com/

The Trolley Drops

Santa Cruz, CA — The Trolley Drops play good-time music; hokum blues and novelty tunes from the 20s and 30s  that blend the call and response of gospel with the drive of the delta blues and the ruckus sounds of prohibition era New Orleans Jazz.

http://trolleydrops.com/

Five Cent Coffee

Oakland, CA — Neo skiffle junk yard blues: a postmodern jug band

https://www.facebook.com/5CentCoffee/

Quake City Jug Band

Quake City started out as an authentic jug band in the 1990’s San Francisco Folk Club scene. Their sound and act has grown over the years to include snare drum, tap dancing, accordion, vocal harmonies, and feather boas.

https://quakecityjugband.blogspot.com/p/quake-city-jug-band.html


Paradise Park Jug Band

Paradise Park Jug Band is a vintage-style musical group based in Santa Cruz, California, that performs traditional prohibition-era blues, folk-jazz, and novelty tunes

Yerba Buena Jug Band

The Yerba Buena Jug Band is a group of miscreants connected with the Yerba Buena #1 chapter of E Clampus Vitus. They play an eclectic mix of songs from Western and California history along with classical jug band, blues, ragtime, and hokum music. They have also been known to torture many other songs by forcing them into a jug band style.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2355436541392634/about

CW Bayer

Old school early jazz songs for your cabaret, hot dance, bankruptcy or soiree. 



https://www.nevadamusic.com/

Morgan Cochneur

Inspired by hearing Kenny Hall, and many others at a music camp called Sweets Mill, Morgan plays a variety of gigs, and lead my own old-timey jug band, called the Skiffle Symphony, and a picture book called The ABCs of Jug Band Music

https://www.facebook.com/morgan.cochneuer/