about the band

Since 2009, when we got together to make music for a Brighton event one summer's day, we've been playing the traditional old-time music of the American Southern mountains from the days before bluegrass, listening to source recordings from the 1920s onwards and working out our own arrangements, whether it's lively dance tunes, risque jug-band songs, weird "crooked" tunes, or gospel songs in gorgeous three-part hammony. We love playing everywhere from folk clubs to festival stages to weddings, and, with a caller, we'll play a barn dance or a Southern square dance.
We can do tunes for background music, or songs with join-in choruses for audiences that like to sing along. We can put together a fast foot-stomping set, or a quieter set of beautiful melodies... and we're always happy to learn new material to suit the occasion (even going as modern as the middle of the 20th century!). In other words, we're extremely flexible and we like to explore the great variety the tradition has to offer. Please contact us to talk about music for your event!

Dan Edwards

If Dan doesn't have a banjo in his hands, then it's a guitar or fiddle. He took up the banjo while living in the States, played in a whole bunch of bands in Oklahoma and Texas, and is much in demand as a musician.

Michi Mathias

Michi was smitten by old-time fiddle as a teenager growing up in the US and hearing this music on the radio. She can hardly remember what it's like to walk around without fiddle tunes constantly playing in her head.

Jaime Regan

Jaime has long been a singer/ songwriter as a solo artist or with his own bands, but when he discovered old-time music it was "like finding a door to another room in your house that you never knew was there. And not just a room but a whole suite."