Soirée: Uncle Jake & The 18 Wheel Gang, The Matchsellers and Jenn Gooch

Soirée: Uncle Jake & The 18 Wheel Gang, The Matchsellers and Jenn Gooch

Okay so its May 5... a traditional holiday among our friends south of the border celebrating the beating of the French in a battle long ago... And now its a bar holiday where everyone comes out and drinks tequilla and tecate..
Well.. we have tequilla..
But.. the party here is a roots, boot stompin, fiddle flyin' good time with a solo, duo and full out bunch a guys that truly rule..

Uncle Jake & the 18 Wheel Gang began as a campfire jam between Lefty Wilson (Scruggs Banjo) and Brown Bird "Coontail" Gunther James (6-string Banjo), quickly recruited the expertise of Stove "The Iron Swan" Moose (Primal Banjo) and Klabe Dunn (Mandolin Banjo) for an ultimate open-mic and late-night festival jug-less Jug-Grass adventure. Blazing an unrivaled path through the local Pennsylvanian bar and festival scene, the Gang had soon snatched up the-one-and-only, Monkey "Mike" Salami (Bass; variety: Upright Banjo) to complete their current, touring, name-droppin', finger poppin' line-up of Uncle Jake & the 18 Wheel Gang

The Matchsellers is a bluegrass duo that began in the streets of former East Germany and now crisscrosses the US Interstate system year-round. In 2012, Julie Bates and Andrew Morris met while working as English teachers in Leipzig, Germany. Bates is a classically trained violinist from Kansas City, Missouri, and Morris grew up playing electric blues guitar in the dive bars of Warsaw, Indiana. They found common ground in the music of their homeland and developed a tight yet gritty bluegrass style. In the summer of 2013 they left their jobs and hit the road.

Jenn Gooch is a local Pgh via Texas fiddle playin' , flat foot dancin' , artist, seamstress.. extroadinaire .. this multi media talented woman gives ya a show and then some..

Come in, order up a tequilla if you must.. but get ready to have a time..

$5 American