ASBF 2008

2008 Austin String Band Festival 

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS


Friday, October 17, 2008

6 pm-512 - Great local Bluegrass band
7 pm -The Gray Sky Boys - Old-Style Bluegrass picking and singing
8 pm -The Ruby Jane Show - Young Fiddling Phenom
9 pm -Zydeco Blanco - Zydeco! We can dance!
10 pm -The Lost Pines - County/Folk/Bluegrass

Saturday, October 18, 2008 

2 pm -The Fundamentalists - Spirited Gospel Bluegrass
3 pm -Lost and Nameless Orchestra - High Energy Americana
4 pm -The Evergreens Rockin’ old-time string band from East Texas
5 pm -Twangzilla - Bluegrass Classics and Originals
6 pm -Double Eagle String Band - Soulful Old Time Ballads/High Energy Breakdowns
7 pm -Cory McCauley and His Evangeline Aces - Authentic Cajun - More dancing!
8 pm -Sarah Jarosz - Bluegrass/Old Time/Originals From a Virtuoso With Soul
9 pm -The Freight Hoppers - The Best Old Time String Band Around

Sunday, October 19, 2008

10 am - Noon. Gospel Sing

 
Workshop Schedule



Saturday, 11:30 am -12:15 pm:

1. Lap Dulcimer: Beginning and Intermediate - Margaret and Lloyd Wright of the Evergreens

2. Tearin' It Up On Mandolin - Silas Lowe of The Fundamentalists

3. Kids' Music Time - Laura Freeman

Saturday, 12:30 -1:15 pm:

1. Advanced Fiddle - David Bass of the Freight Hoppers

2. Writing Original Tunes in Traditional Genres - Chris PetersonJenny ParrottHoward Rains

3. Intermediate Bluegrass Jam - Cory Hicks of Twangzilla

Saturday, 1:30 -2:15 pm:

1. Advanced Old Time Banjo - Frank Lee of the Freight Hoppers

2. Finding Your Voice -- LZ Love

3. Civil War Music - Phil McDonald, Bernard and Mallissa Mollberg, Elliott and Janice Rogers

4. Intermediate Celtic Jam - Michael McCullough and Vanessa Gordon Lenz

Saturday, 2:30 -3:15 pm:

1. Balkan Singing - Christy Foster and others

2. Traditional Music Slow Jam - Mark Gilston

3. Intermediate Old Time Jam - Michael McCullough