National Jug Band Jubilee is a gathering of the nation's best jug bands,

performing in the city that started it all!

Confirmed!

The 2008

Jug Band Jubilee

will take place on one glorious day

at one beautiful location...

Noon-10 p.m. (or so)

Saturday, August 23

Fourth annual National Jug Band Jubilee

at the Brown-Forman Amphitheater

in Louisville's Waterfront Park 

featuring a variety of jug bands from several states,

as well as food, refreshments and other vendors. 

We will be working with sponsors with the intent of making this a

free festival for the first time.  Stay tuned.

BUT THERE'S MORE!!

7 p.m. Friday, August 22  

Louisville's

Frazier International History Museum

will present a concert featuring

the Juggernaut Jug Band and Cincinnati Dancing Pigs,

immediately followed by the screening of the jug band documentary

"Chasin' Gus' Ghost."  More detail at www.chasingusghost.com  

Partially filmed in Louisville, this fascinating new movie traces the history of jug band music,

with emphasis on the work of Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers.  It credits

Louisville as the home of the first recorded jug bands in the early 1920s. 

Excerpts from Jugumentary,                                  Scenes from 2006's

Chasin' Gus' Ghost                                              Jug Band Jubilee

National Jug Band Jubilee Brings America's Happiest Music back to its old Kentucky home.  Dedicated to preserving jug band music at its late 19th century home--

Louisville, Kentucky.  National Jug Band Jubilee--funded in part through a

Kentucky Arts Council grant.