Bands who've played the Pourhouse

. . . it was a cold night in central new york, the snow was deep and the truck got stuck. we saw many wild nights at the farm; wild turkey, homebrew, baked ziti, and the last fifty-fifty was a little bit lean. we had gone our separate ways since then, but red garvin and the soggy bottom bandit remained and would soon meet grabford, who came from a long line of musicians, and was born with banjo picks on his right hand, which was great for picking, but a little too good for bad itches. then one day we heard a knock on the door & opened it just in time to see a nun peeling away on a harley.

Long, long ago, Catherine Joy was involved in an unfortunate shipwreck when a marauding horde of seagulls ran her little sailboat aground on a tiny island in an unknown sea. When she finally made her way back to the mainland, hundreds of years had gone by, yet she had not aged. Now her mission is to defeat the millions of garbage-bred seagulls that are out to destroy her and take over the world. When she is not battling seagulls or training her elite army of raptorial birds, she likes to play a little music. She also likes ice cream (not coconut!) and action movies. And rum.

funk folk fusion

"If this trio is playing a dance or a festival anywhere near you, be there!"
-Sing Out Magazine

original acoustic

traditional fiddle music

Music is in the air all around us, both in a literal sense and a more metaphysical one. The sound of the cars on the highway mingles with the sound of the wind, and the bird songs and the crickets, the humm of the refrigerator and whir of the computer. Listen and you can hear snippets of celestial melody and the harmony of the spheres, as well as all the infinite and intricate rhythms of our everyday lives.

Brian Francis - Guitar and lead vocals
Cocktail Kevin Dawley - cocktail drum and vocals
Kerri Pickard-DePriest - Vocals and tamborine

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The string band with a leg up on Old Time Music.

Long John and the Tights is an old time string band from Ithaca, New York. We play music that became popular in the southern Appalachian mountains from around 1920 - 1940, mixing in some elements of today's celtic, bluegrass, and northern square & contra-dance music.

John Hoffmann plays fiddle with Stefan Senders on 5-string banjo, Randi Beckmann on piano, and Jim Reidy on tenor guitar and banjo uke.

Michael Hansen is a banjo player from Forest Hill, Maryland. He has taken some ques from Joe Thompson, Dirk Powell, Tony Ellis, and Otis Taylor (among others....like Matt Noonan). He began playing the banjo in high school and has since added the guitar, harmonica, ukulele, kazoo & jug to his repertoire. He cut his teeth playing live at a Salisbury area open mic…the now defunct Aesop’s Table. After that he spent a year playing in various venues in the lower 48 states as well as in some very prestigious pubs in Ireland.

First Thursday of every month come down with your instruments to sing, pick and grin.

roots and offshoots

Old Time Music

An up and coming band from North Haven, Maine who blew though town one night. They'll be back!

traditional old time