"The kings of 100% acoustic folk-skiffle-swing holiday
highjinks"
"The Christmas Jug Band's 50th SleighRide! - 2026 Holiday Tour"
...a cast of characters to bring you your musical holiday wackiness
The Christmas Jug Band players features Greg Dewey, Tim Eschliman, Paul Rogers, Snakebite Jacobs,
Candy Girard and Blake Richardson, performers from
Back pOrchEstra, Those Darn Accordions, Country Joe & The Fish, The Hot Licks
and New Orleans Nightcrawlers.
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- Dec. 22, 2026) Tue. 7:00 pm
Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse
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With special guest Shana Morrison
2020 Addison St, Berkeley, CA
Doors 6:00, Music 7:00 - All ages welcome
(510) 644-2020
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- Dec. 21, 2026) Mon.
Sweetwater
Music Hall
- All Ages!
19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley CA 94941
(415) 388-3850
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Announcing some CJB folks at the Album
Awareness party for Back pOrchEstra with special guest
Jesse DeNatale at
Sweetwater
Music Hall
Apr 22, 2026 Wed. 8:00 show, 7:00 doors
Special large band with Tim Eschliman (resonator guitar), Gary Potterton (guitar),
Candy Girard (violin), Jen Rund (bass), Bowen Brown (drums), Kathy Kennedy (vocals) and Mingo Lewis, Jr. (congas, percussion)
Choose your Music Service for the new Back pOrchEstra album, "Stories In The Heart"
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The Christmas Jug Band personnel changes and is most likely a combination of some of these: (Check these links for
other gigs from these guys)
Paul Rogers (Those Darn Accordions),
Tim Eschliman (Etta James, Back pOrchEstra ,
New Copasetics
Rhythmtown-Jive,
Commander Cody),
Gregory Leroy Dewey (Mad River, Country Joe, Marty Balin),
Ken "Snakebite" Jacobs
(Kinky Friedman, New Orleans Nightcrawlers, Rhythmtown-Jive),
Candy Girard (Delaney Bramlet, Tanya Tucker, Clint Black, Jerry Garcia, Back pOrchEstra)
and Blake Richardson (Bobby Hebb, Hot House)
Also possible and previous members or guests are:
Paul Robinson, Paul Olguin, Henry Salvia. Shana Morrison, Curtis Lawson, Lech Wierzinski (California Honeydrops), Bonnie Hayes,
Rizorkestra,
Country Joe McDonald, Mike Duke, Angela Strehli, Barry Melton,
Nik Phelps (Sprocket Ensemble) and Nick Dewey (writer of Starship's "Runaway").
Our respect and appeciation goes to Austin deLone, Dan Hicks, Lance Dickerson, Jim Rothermel, Norton
Buffalo, Turtle Vandermarr
and Brien Hopkins who are no longer with us but have all donated their jugular expertise in years past
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