About.
Mamas comes in two formats
1) As a three piece - our preferred offering. This gives you a bigger range of instrumentation, with fiddle and washboard percussion added.
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2) As a two-piece - omitting fiddle, with limited washboard percussion. We offer this for those venues that are too small to take a three piece, and in the instance where Karin is unable to make the journey.
Talk to us about pricing options, and listen to examples of both line-ups to decide.
Mamas Broken Jug Band has been playing music on the Mornington Peninsula in Melbourne Australia fo over 20 years. It has had a monthly residency at Hickinbotham Winery during all this time - under the name of 'Mamas Mountain Jug Band'.
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In late 2022 we lost our Guitar player, and changed the line-up by adding fiddle. - hence 'broken' jug band!
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We have played at many festivals, weddings, birthday celebrations and events including:
- The original Coolart Jazz Festivals
- Whitecliffs Music Festival
- Mornington Street Festival
- Great Alpine Pick - Bluegrass Festival
- Frankston Seaside Festival
- Girgarre Music Festival
- Yarra Junction Fiddlers Convention
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Current Members include:
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Roy Carter - who comes from a Folk, Roots and Jazz background, having been a founding member of the Peninsula Folk Club, and Banjo/Vocals for the 'Stumpy Gully Stompers' jazz band. Roy is an avid lover of early pre-jazz music, having researched and found many music gems. Roy has created several Jug Bands, having a love of 'happy' music.
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Evan Webb - who comes from a Folk, Roots background, having played in Bushbands, Bluegrass Bands, and solo work. Evan is a multi-instrumentalist, with a large collection of stringed instruments. Evan was the founding member of the Peninsula Folk Club, and has managed several organisations, and festivals, including Mountain Grass.
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Karin Griffin - Has been Classically trained. She is an accomplished Electric and Semi Acoustic Violinist in her own right and has extensive skills and experience playing with some of the world’s best musicians. Her experience is from diverse styles and genre from Classical Orchestral works & West End Shows to Baroque to Rock & Roll, Gypsy Jazz to Beethoven, Country & Western, Bee Bop, Jazz Fusion, Progressive Rock and most in between.
Karin has been privileged to share the stage with such greats as: Eric Clapton, Henry Mancini, Dizzy Gillespie, Larry Adler & Sinead O’Connor and regularly worked with the Royal Philharmonic and Royal Philharmonic Pop Orchestra, the BBC Concert Orchestra, the West Australian Symphony Orchestra and the Australian Pops Orchestra (from it’s inception). She has performed on films such as Licence to Kill (various 007 movies) and Mad Max 1 & 2 starting her career in Melbourne with Brian May and the ABC Melbourne Showband she brings a breadth and depth of unusual performance skills.
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