All Around Men for all occasions.


Rent Parties, Jook Joints, Low Dives, Fish Fries, BBQs, Weddings and Funerals
Sporting Houses a speciality - at 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 :

The Courtyard Theatre, Hereford, The Mason's Arms, Wichenford,The Golden Fleece, Stroud, The Queen's Head, Monmouth,The Hollybush, Hay-on-Wye,

See Engagements page for full details

 

The RJO offer participatory presentation workshops

for any occasion for children and/or adults

Next workshops:

 

 

 

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 added a lovely old-time feel ... and the audience joined in enthusiastically." Blues In Britain 94

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

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