The Third Annual Jug Band and Freak Folk Jubilee took place on Friday, Nov. 21 at The Plus and was scheduled from 8-11 p.m.

One of the most recognizable instruments in both jug band and American folk music has got to be the washtub bass. Also known as gutbuckets, these instruments tend to use an old broom for a neck and ...

Men with neon-colored mohawks were doing do-si-dos on the dance floor. A man with a homemade washtub bass stage-dove into the crowd. And when it was all over, the bar was out of beer. The spectacle?

WISE, Va. — Three University of Virginia’s College at Wise students playing a jug, washboard bass and kazoo brought home third place in the Minneapolis Battle of the Jug Bands. First timers at the ...

The Mill River Rounders will be bringing its blend of banjo, washtub bass, and guitar old-timey/bluegrass stylings to Easthampton’s Mill 180 Park this Friday night. Mill 180 features lawn games and a ...

One rainy, miserable Sunday this fall, Ric Driver of rural Iowa City was spotted at the Johnson County Fairgrounds, calmly plucking his washtub bass in the shelter of one of the livestock barns. It ...

Iowa City architect Brian Gotwals is probably more comfortable playing drums, a banjo or washtub bass than he is playing a Chinese gong. Yet, he will be among 14 or so local musicians recruited to ...