Wooden Leg is Jimmy Ryan (Mandolin & Vocals), Mickey Bones (Drums), Brian Dunton (Bass), Russell Chudnofsky (Guitar), and Joe Kessler (Fiddle).

For those who like their pigeonholes neat and tidy, Jimmy Ryan is an unsettling proposition. He plays mandolin with the old-timey pluck of a bluegrass breakdown, but he also plays it with the ferocity of rock guitarist. What else would you expect of a left-handed rebel who began his career by playing both in a bluegrass combo (Pine Island) and a punk band (Decentz)?

That melding of styles made Ryan a pioneer of the so-called “alt-country” scene in the late ’80s when he founded and fronted the bluegrass-tinged rock band The Blood Oranges. And the same eclectic approach makes him one of the most dynamic singer-songwriters on the rich Boston Americana scene today.

“What do you get when you combine a crooning bluegrass mandolin master, a veteran bassist, a fiddler who plays through fuzz boxes and wah-wah pedals, sounding more like Jimi Hendrix than Papa John Creach, and a big band swing drummer who inexplicably feels moved to pound the skins harder than John Bonham on a bender? Do you call it country, folk, bluegrass, rock ‘n’ roll, or maybe just a freak of nature?

Just call it Wooden Leg, and give the group room to do its thing. It’s much safer that way.”

-David Wildman, Boston Globe, January 25, 1998

https://jimmyryanmando.com/wooden-leg


Busted Jug Band - High Energy Music From the 20s and 30s -

 Played by men in top hats and derbies, the Busted Jug Band's music is a festive romp through time featuring group vocals, swinging rhythms, and novel instrumentation. Inspired by the street bands of the early 20th Century, the group features kazoos, washboard, mandolin, banjo-uke, washtub bass, harmonica, accordion, jug, rhythm bones, National guitar, slide whistle, and bicycle horns. The group plays music of the classic black Jug Bands and String Bands of Memphis and Mississippi, and small Swing Bands and vocal groups of New Orleans and the Urban North. Country Blues, novelty songs, standards, early Jazz, and Hillbilly music are some of the styles featured.

During the Jazz Age, musicians who couldn't afford trumpets, tubas, and drums replaced them with homemade instruments, such as kazoo, washboard, and jug. Thus, the Jug Band sound, sometimes called “poor man's Jazz”, was born. This was revived in the 1960s with groups like Jim Kweskin's Jug Band. The Busted Jug Band pushes the Jug idiom beyond its historical confines. Homemade instruments are modified with modern techniques for maximum impact. Inspiration has come from the likes of Spike Jones & His City Slickers and Hoosier Hotshots. Vaudevillian sight gags, jokes, and colorful stage attire round out the show, and fun reigns supreme.
https://www.thebustedjugband.com/


This event is being presented by SHK Music at the Boston Harbor Distillery - a wonderfully unique and intimate setting to take in great music with its 1850's architecture, great acoustics, comfortable seating and fantastic selection of made-on-the-premises liquors and liqueurs. And there's plenty of free parking too. More info at https://www.shkmusic.com/faq

$20 in advance, $25 DOS

This is a 21+ Show

Doors are at 7pm. Showtime is 8pm.

NO REFUNDS OR EXCHANGES