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August 2 - 3
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A benefit concert featuring Spare Time Bluegrass Band, David Landau – Children’s Entertainer and The Bearded Hams in Tyranena‘s newly expanded, outdoor Beer Garden.
How is this a benefit? Well, Tyranena is donating $2 from every pint served to the Sugar Maple Music Festival… so grab yourself a glass and support great music! (And great beer, of course.)
Live music beginning at 1 pm with The Rodeo Wagon also on hand serving up southern comfort food such as corn on the cob, Triple Cheesy Mac, and big beef sandwiches!
An Evening with The Jerry Douglas Band
An Intimate Seated Show
Tuesday, August 22, 2017
Majestic Theatre
Madison, WI
Tickets On Sale Now:
Tickets available at at MajesticMadison.com, 800-514-ETIX, and at the Majestic Theatre Box Office.
Dobro master and 14-time Grammy winner Jerry Douglas is to the resonator guitar what Jimi Hendrix was to the electric guitar: elevating, transforming, and reinventing the instrument in countless ways. In addition to being widely recognized as the foremost master of the Dobro, Jerry Douglas is a freewheeling, forward-thinking recording artist whose output incorporates elements of bluegrass, country, rock, jazz, blues and Celtic into his distinctive musical vision.
Called “dobro’s matchless contemporary master,” by The New York Times, fourteen-time Grammy winner Jerry Douglas is one of the most innovative recording artists in music, both as a solo artist and member of groundbreaking bands including J.D. Crowe & the New South, the Country Gentlemen, Boone Creek, the Grammy-winning The Earls of Leicester, and Strength In Numbers. Douglas’ distinctive sound graces more than 1500 albums, including discs released by Garth Brooks, Paul Simon, James Taylor, Elvis Costello, Earl Scruggs, and Ray Charles, among many others.
Since 1998, he’s been a key member of “Alison Krauss and Union Station featuring Jerry Douglas”, touring extensively and co-producing and playing on a series of platinum albums. He has produced albums for Krauss, the Del McCoury Band, Maura O’Connell, and Jesse Winchester and is is co-Music Director of the acclaimed BBC TV series Transatlantic Sessions, and his latest solo album Traveler features guest appearances by such notable friends as Paul Simon, Mumford & Sons, and Eric Clapton, among others.
As he continues his incalculable influence on Americana, bluegrass and their many related genres, Douglas forges as a true pioneer in American music.
Piedmont Bluz at the 2016 Sugar Maple Music Festival
We are less than one week away from the 14th annual Sugar Maple Music Festival. Are you as excited as we are?!
Whether this will be your first or fourteenth time at the fest, here are some helpful tips:
Schedule and more at www.sugarmaplefest.org
The Sugar Maple Music Festival invites you to play along! Join local fiddle phenoms Rin Ribble and Tina Thompson as they lead the Little Fiddler’s workshop designed for young fiddle players of all skill levels. Participants will learn about the musical styles they’ll hear all weekend long at Sugar Maple.
And don’t miss this chance to attend a guitar workshop with Molly Tuttle! A graduate of the prestigious Berklee College of Music, Molly might be young, but she has already earned a reputation as one of the most virtuosic guitar players on today’s bluegrass scene. In this interactive workshop, Molly will demonstrate different styles of rhythm guitar to help participants improve their own rhythm playing.
Want more chances to play along? Start your Saturday morning right at the Bloody Mary jam at the Roots & Reasons stage then move over to the jam tent where hosted and ad hoc jams continue through the day. There will be a bluegrass jam hosted by Southern Wisconsin Bluegrass Music Association, a Cajun jam hosted by T’Monde and an old-time jam hosted by Glass Mountain.
If you like dumps and jugs and bumping, you’re going to love the Dumpy Jug Bumpers! But please, don’t wear out the name. It’s difficult to say and probably shouldn’t be uttered around children past a certain age. In fact, when in the company of these musicians, it’s best not to speak at all. Just sit back and enjoy the quirky, yet sophisticated, sounds of this captivating old-time string band from Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Like most bands of their ilk, the Dumpy Jug Bumpers make music with a mix of traditional instruments and occasionally, found objects. They’ve created their repertoire in much the same way, assembling a bricolage of country blues, original mandolin ragtime tunes, and lost pre-war pop obscurities. They’re a murder of musical magpies! Seriously, they’ll play ANYTHING.
They’ll also play ANYWHERE. The Dumpy Jug Bumpers have recently performed at the Minnesota Bluegrass & Old-Time Music Festival, the Gays Mills Folk Festival, and are past winners of the Duluth, MN Battle of the Jug Bands. They play on boats, too. Watch them showboating here on Dumptown Baby Blues and here on Get Out And Get Under The Moon.
Catch the Dumpy Jug Bumpers on the Main Stage at Sugar Maple Fest, Friday, Aug 4th. Expect to see Mumblin’ Drew Temperante performing vocals, mandolin-banjo, and guitar, Tony Balluff on clarinet, Josh Granowski on tenor banjo, and Sam Skavnak on bass saxophone. Note: Please DO NOT give sharp objects to any of these musicians, as they’ve been known to put their lips to or strum the darnedest things in an attempt to play a tune.
Can’t make the show? Listen to their albums Dumptown and Dumpin’ At The Savoy at www.dumpyjugbumpers.com.
~written by Jennifer Phistry
