Post a picture of your band!!

**Randi Gormley** · Oct-11-2011, 12:50pm

Cat -- the guy on the left is actually standing next to his keyboard, which was put on its side for the shot. Monica (with the piano accordion) says her instrument is misunderstood ... she's also a fine whistle player and plays hammer dulcimer on occasion. When she was a kid, she was one of the Shannon-aires, along with her sister, Loretta (who plays a very nice button box these days and occasionally drops by to play with us. We're helping finance her CD. Our other ringer is another button box player, John Whelan, who runs the local comhaltas and sits in with or teaches us depending on the venue).

**catmandu2** · Oct-11-2011, 1:16pm

Well, you don't have to sell me on squeezebox!

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(but still -- someone should have a bass!

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**journeybear** · Oct-11-2011, 1:25pm

Originally Posted by Randi Gormley

We had a group shot taken a while ago and, while not a publicity still, shows the most of us. I have mentioned that we're a community band, right?

Lawdamercy! If the whole community is in the band, who's in the audience?

And this is just most of you. Tuning up must be fun, as well as arrangements.

But at least the mandolin is front row center, as it should be!

**greg_tsam** · Oct-11-2011, 2:25pm

Obviously a banjo solo. We rocked the folkgrass!

**Randi Gormley** · Oct-11-2011, 3:07pm

Arrangements? Lord, we're an Irish band. We all play the melody! Actually, if we're gigging out, we let people know the date and time and then see who shows up. So at any given gig, we'll have from 2 to 20 people, depending on what the venue is, how much someone wants to spend and how many conflicts there are with other requests. We're really a non-profit, and any money we make playing out we use to sponsor real musicians -- we had Andy Irvine last weekend at a house concert and John Doyle is scheduled for next weekend or three or four. You can find our (real) concert schedule at www.shamrockirishmusic.org (shameless plug)

**Geordie** · Oct-11-2011, 5:19pm

Here we are, The Hundred Year Champions in our electric form. That's me playing drums.

There are no mandolins in these pictures, though. That's for the acoustic part of the set.

**jim simpson** · Oct-14-2011, 8:17pm

We (National Pike Pickers) had a lengthy photo shoot recently and this photo was one in which the photographer removed the background. He sent several with all sorts of wild backgrounds, I liked this one.

**Charles E.** · Oct-17-2011, 6:15pm

We just got back from a fall music retreat up in Sparta NC. Winds were gusting up to 30mph that day, so the banjo players husband renamed us The Hickory Mt. Windbreakers. I like The Pungo River Rats better.

**Janos** · Oct-17-2011, 6:39pm

This is a picture of my band 'Spoor'. It's Dutch and means 'track' but also 'trail'. www.spooronlijn.nl

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**Charles E.** · Oct-17-2011, 8:20pm

Janos, I really enjoyed the double bass and mandolin sound clips. This past weekend I stayed up too late playing mandolin and bass as we were the last ones standing. We had a great time.

**Janos** · Oct-18-2011, 3:27am

Thanks Charles! Bass and mandolin is really all you need...

**Backlineman** · Oct-27-2011, 6:19pm

My Dad's band The Summer Strummers. Rockin the Chautauqua Institute for many years.

**Jake Wildwood** · Oct-28-2011, 8:58am

Here's the Saturday jam group from last harvest fair:

**Toycona** · Oct-28-2011, 10:22am

Here is "Peninsula Bluegrass Crossing" at a local parish festival (I'm the big mandolin player):

**Wildeman** · Dec-02-2011, 2:18pm

My good friends I get together with from time to time. We call ourselves "Greenwood Forge". We enjoy playing everything from Bluegrass, the Beatles, Gossip, Dylan and a few old wetern cowboy songs. That's me with my 1956 Gibson A style.

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**Charles E.** · Jan-22-2012, 8:03pm

Just got back from a winter retreat in Bath NC. We had great food, great tunes and a wonderful fellowship.

**Charles E.** · Jan-22-2012, 9:19pm

One more......

**disguiseglasses** · Jan-28-2012, 12:31am

Originally Posted by Jonas

Here's a picture of my band - Sideshow Stringband

GREAT photo!

**brmichaelpaul** · Jan-28-2012, 3:40am

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From a gig in France in 2004

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**Rob Sharer** · Jan-29-2012, 7:24pm

Okay, here we go. Craicdown in full cry, featuring meself on flute/fiddle and Jim Roberts on percussion out of the frame). We are being ably supported by member #3, David DiGiuseppe, who is playing his Stephen Owsley Smith Bouzouki. It's a koa killing machine.