All Around Men for all occasions.


Rent Parties, Jook Joints, Low Dives, Fish Fries, BBQs, Weddings and Funerals
Sporting Houses a speciality (reduced rates)

Become part of the Orchestra!

 

 

Sing-a-long with the catchy choruses
Tap your feet to those syncopated melodies

Join in on kazoos, jugs, shakers & percussion

Try the dance steps -The Cakewalk, Slow Grind

Shimmie-Sha-Wobble, Charleston or Black Bottom

 

Support live music venues and The RJO :

Crawley Folk Festival, The Trout, Lechlade, The Hollybush Inn, Hay on Wye, Jazz in the Park @ Lydney Festival, The Muggery, Upton Blues Festival, The Queens Head, Monmouth, Cafe Rene, Gloucester, Gloucester Blues Festival, The Masons Arms, Wichenford

See Engagements page for full details

 

The RJO offer participatory presentation workshops

for any occasion for children and/or adults

Next workshops:

Big Session Festival Leicester: 20 & 21.06.09

Crawley Folk Festival: 27.06.09

Hollybush Inn: 11.07.09

 

 

Ragtime Jug Orchestra News
The Ragtime Jug Orchestra

 

 

 

 

On a plethora of acoustic instrumentation

The RJO bring you the music of:

the steamboat levees of St Louis,

the bars of Beale Street, Memphis,

the cotton fields of the Mississippi Delta,

the Appalachian back hills of Tennessee,

the famed sporting houses of New Orleans.

 

 

"authentic...absorbing." Blues Matters 45

The RJO is the authentic string-band sound of the early 20th century, playing a good-time mix of ragtime, country blues, hokum, skiffle, old-timey and jug band music.

Take The RJO advice - "Just Get Drunk and Truck"
Audience participation is always encouraged