sunday,february 14, 2010  -  28th Annual!


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 Featuring:
The Blue Lights
Carolina Chocolate Drops
Fritz Richmond's Barbecue Orchestra
Bill Carney's Jug Addicts
The Jim Kweskin Band
Escape the Floodwater Jug Band
Devine's Jug Band
Juggernaut Jug Band
Wahoo Skiffle Crazies
The Watermelon Mountain Jug Band
Banjorama!
Ramblin Jug Stompers
The Federal Cigar Jug Band
The Jugadelics
Quake City Jug Band
Jugtown Pirates of Lake Champlain
Dirdy Birdies Jug Band
Blue Ribbon Jug Band
Andalusia Jug Band
The Hump Night Thumpers
Whiskey For Breakfast Records is a brand new label for jug band, skiffle, and good-time music, started by Banjo Kellie of Escape the Floodwater Jug Band.


 
featuring:
 Gamala Beat

Ammon Hennessy
 Sloppy Joe
 Girls on Top
 Jook Savages
 The Bok Choy Mountain Boys
Nationalz
The Amish Power Company
The Blue Wafflers
Gung Hosers
 Sorrels Untied
Hokum Yoakim & the Eggwhites
 Ghetto Rangers
Walleye Luck
 Slop Bucket String's
 Momma's Home Cookin'

Recorded live at the 2000 Battle  of the Jug Bands for
 the Pulse of the Twin Cities  newspaper's "Minnesota Homegrown Series"


 
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 Contact the Annual Battle of the Jugbands
      
A "mail to" link




 The Yahoo Jugband Discussion Group




The Edge of the Wilderness Jugband Boogie
AKA the Effie Battle -  held in September




The Duluth Battle of the Jug Bands
 
held on Memorial Day Weekend
    Newscast about the Duluth Battle HERE




go to KFAI pages

KFAI Fresh Air Community Radio





Review of the 2006 Battle
   from The Celestial Monochord

   The Journal of the Institute for Astrophysics and the Hillbilly Blues



Jug Band Hangout Sticker  
Forums, photos, reviews and more
       The Jug Band Hangout




Review of the 2008 Battle
   from The St. Cloud University Chronicle

  





"Jug Band Hootenanny"
   story from The Minnesota Daily


Go to "home" page
<– this picture-link will take you to the home page, where this year's contestants are listed

Band Links in no particular order
   From past and present bands who have played the battle,
   many sites have music; some sites even have videos shot at the battle

                           Moriah Go-Getters
                           The Roe Family Singers     
                           Hump Night Thumpers
                           Rag Mama's Riverbottom Gang
                           Sloppy Joe
                           Slipped-A-Mickey
                           Escape the Floodwater
                           Como Avenue Jug Band
                           Ffilharmonious Jug Band
                          That Fat Chance Jugband
                          The Geezers
                          More About The Geezers (on Earl's Crab Shack page)
                          The California Jug Band Association*
                           * the folks that used to trudge up here from the West Coast in February
                             finally decided it would be easier (and warmer) to do their own events. So they did.
                           The Sorry Muthas
                           Sliced Bread Jug Band
                           The Barehand Jugband

                           Brotherhood of the Jug Band Blues

                           Bill and Judy
                           Strictly Jug Nuts
                           Woodshop
                           Boo Bradley
                           Colorblind Johnson
                           Courtney McClean & The Dirty Curls

                           Fisher Coulee Ramblers aka The Old Deluders


Photos and Review of the 2005 Battle
   from The Bridge 
by Cyn Collins




Photos and Review of the 2005 Battle
   from How Was the Show




Photos of the 2004 Battle
   from How Was the Show




The Cabooze Bar
   hosting the Battle for a decade



 

 




Here's a story from
 about '83 or '84.

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