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Welcome! We're the Hump Night Thumpers, otherwise known as the Jug Band Ensemble class at the Old Town School of Folk Music What is jug band music all about? Despite the stereotypes of rural whites, the classic jug band era was shaped by urban black musicians in Southern river cities like Memphis and Louisville. Former vaudeville entertainers and string band musicians took to the streets with.. Jug band music is American folk music characterized by use of a whiskey jug, kazoo, and washboard among other instruments.

The distinctiveness of the jug gave a special quality to the music as well, and there developed with the bands a large body of music suited to the jug bands. Usually it was country dance music and breakdowns, some of it related to the songs of the old minstrel theatre, but the greatest of the bands, like the Memphis Jug Band or Cannon's Jug Stompers could play intensely moving blues as well.. Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas also featured extensively platformed-up sets, all created with great attention to detail. Jim Henson explained: Emmet Otter was the first time we had gotten into those kind of elaborate sets where we had floors in the interiors and we would take a wide-angle shot with characters coming up through holes in the floor.