Celebrate St. Patty’s day with live music from the Strung Out String Band at 68 Jay St. Bar in DUMBO. We promise room temperature Guinness, great people and possibly some step dancing.

Now, you might be thinking to yourself, “Hey, don’t you guys play Americana? St. Patty’s day is for Irish music.” And you’d be right. But on St. Patty’s day we promise to play every fiddle tune we can think of based on an Irish melody and there’s plenty to pick from. We guarantee that after a few rounds you won’t know the difference.

Where? When?
9:00-11:00pm
Wednesday, March 17th
FREE
68 Jay St. Bar
(at the corner of Jay St. and Water St.)
DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY 11201
68 Jay Street
(718) 260-8207

Once a month we host a jam filled with musicians, hipsters, alcoholics and ethno-musicologists who attempt to play music together using acoustic instruments and generally staying somewhere near the key of G (or A, or something). We gather at Freddy’s on the first Thursday of every month to beat back the ever encroaching arms of musical armageddon by playing old American favorites into the night.

Banjos, fiddles, guitars and washboards – fiddle tunes, hollers, train songs and jigs in the key of moonshine – friends, beer and Freddy’s Backroom. Need I say more?

Come and play a tune, or have a nice drinke and bask in the glory of crooked and funky old Americana.

Every first Thursday of the Month
Starting at 9:00 going till late
Freddy’s
Dean St. & 6th Ave
Brooklyn
718 622 7035

Once a month we host a jam filled with musicians, hipsters, alcoholics and ethno-musicologists who attempt to play music together using acoustic instruments and generally staying somewhere near the key of G (or A, or something). We gather at Freddy’s on the first Thursday of every month to beat back the ever encroaching arms of musical armageddon by playing old American favorites into the night.

Banjos, fiddles, guitars and washboards – fiddle tunes, hollers, train songs and jigs in the key of moonshine – friends, beer and Freddy’s Backroom. Need I say more?

Come and play a tune, or have a nice drink and bask in the glory of crooked and funky old Americana.

Every first Thursday of the Month
Starting at 9:00 going till late
Freddy’s
Dean St. & 6th Ave
Brooklyn
718 622 7035

Following up on the recent video we posted of an old-timey house party we found this video from 1964 featuring Bascom Lunsford dancing and playing music on the porch of a friend. Great music and great clogging.

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The Strung Out String Band’s very own banjo player Robby O’Sullivan is a YouTube star! He was recently interviewed about playing Soldier’s Joy on the banjo and how he got involved in New York City’s Old Time Music scene.

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If this doesn’t seem like one of the best house parties you’ve ever seen you probably shouldn’t be visiting the Strung Out String Band’s website. Many of the people in this documentary footage are related to one of our band members. Can you guess which one?

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Once a month we host a jam filled with musicians, hipsters, alcoholics and ethno-musicologists who attempt to play music together using acoustic instruments and generally staying somewhere near the key of G (or A, or something). We gather at Freddy’s on the first Thursday of every month to beat back the ever encroaching arms of musical armageddon by playing old American favorites into the night.

Banjos, fiddles, guitars and washboards – fiddle tunes, hollers, train songs and jigs in the key of moonshine – friends, beer and Freddy’s Backroom. Need I say more?

Come and play a tune, or have a nice drinkee and bask in the glory of crooked and funky old Americana.

Every first Thursday of the Month
Starting at 9:00 going till late
Freddy’s
Dean St. & 6th Ave
Brooklyn
718 622 7035

Gotta love all girl banjo orchestras from the twenties! Well, we do anyway.

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Our new CD is finally complete. It’s been years since we last hurled our best musical ideas against a wall and recorded the aftermath. We spent hours swilling cheap beer and whiskey in a subterranean studio buried deep within New York’s Lower East Side and emerged with a record that we are proud to call our own. It contains such old favorites as Shove the Pig’s Foot Further in the Fire and The Drunkard’s Hiccups and a few songs you’ve never heard before.

We would be quite appreciative if you’d pick up a copy for yourself and a few for your friends. All proceeds go directly into fixing broken instruments, funding trips to