Will play three sets at Manitoulin Brewing Company on Friday, August 8
LITTLE CURRENT—Ever wonder what a post modern, post-jug psych quartet sound like? You will have a chance to check out this most eclectic of bands Friday, August 8 as the band will play three sets, starting at 6 pm, outdoors at Manitoulin Brewing Company in Little Current.
“The Big Bad Jug Band is a post-jug psych quartet from Orillia and Hamilton,” said band spokesperson Jim Fitzgerald. “We write modern protest songs performed in the styles of yesteryear. Our gonzo take on jug music mixes rock and roll, doo-wop and bluegrass progressions are delivered with a raucous panache. The Big Bad Jug Band brings the sounds of old into the ears and minds of now.”
Mr. Fitzgerald notes The Big Bad Jug Band is not limited to the standard folk-roots genre usually associated with a jug band.
With Jim Fitzgerald (lyrics, melody, vocals, harmonica, jug, kazoo, tin whistle), Sean Patrick (licks, banjo, vocals), Jessica Martin (fiddle, vocals), Nate Robertson (percussion, vocals) and Chris Lamont (bull fiddle), the foursome brings a whole new repertoire of songs in a new progression of the “jug genre.”
While some have called them folk-punk, Mr. Fitzgerald eschews that label. “We are too good at our instruments to be ‘punk’,” he laughs. But the crew are not your standard jug band either, stepping past the folk, blues, bluegrass boundaries and encompassing elements of jazz and doowop, rock and roll and folk.
The quartet will take the stage at the Manitoulin Brewing Company, 43 Manitowaning Road in Little Current on August 8, with three sets starting at 6 pm.
