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Here we are doing
"Somebody's Been Usin' that Thing No.2" at Merlins in November, 2010.
Cindy shot the video using Al's new digital camera, Pretty decent for the first try. in the Parking Lot of
Frame Ups & Capstone Gallery 4325 Nicollet Avenue South, Mpls Sunday, August 28
FREE
Saturday September 17
Seward Kings Fair2:10PM - 2:55PM Between 27th and 29th Avenue South, and north of East 25th Street, Minneapolis, MN
Sunday, September 11, 2011 Neighborhood TavernEffie, MN  
click here to see the video Bohemia Flats Days in Minneapolis 2008 we appear in breifly.Musical
tracks Some live, some around the dining
room table.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~Photo Albums ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ As
if the photo pages on this website aren't enough already, you can click
on a title below to look at
even more images, unedited (meaning some good, some bad pictures and not all of us, thankfully ). The
10th Annual Duluth Battle of the Jugbands 2006
4th Annual Victoria Jugband Battle 2006
8th Annual Edge of the Wilderness Jug Band Boogie West Bank Community Garden Tour 2006 The 12th Annual Duluth Battle of the Jugbands 2008 Minnehaha Falls June 2008 MBOTMA Festival August 2008 10th Annual Edge of the Wilderness Jug Band Boogie 2009   Duluth
2006 Battle
West Bank Community Gardens
 Effie 2007 ~ click on photo for suprise
guest
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 BIG-TIME
MOVIE STARS?
 gig
is now being screened before every movie as part of a local
music series of shorts for the Riverview
Theatre in south Minneapols. It looks and sounds so nice that
you'd
hardly know it was us. A lot of it is our music behind local merchants
ad visuals. It's in rotation with a couple of other bands' videos. The
folks that put this together have posted a short clip - which I can't
get to work on older browsers.Click
here to see the Riverview Theatre Fat Chance Jug Band Movie
Clip (works
best -or maybe only- in FireFox)
We also contributed to the soundtrack of the locally produced film Gangsterland, released in May of 2011  Our
Song of the Month is one we put together entitled "Ice
Cream Habit", based on an informal, biased and
unscientific
study of female behaviour, and introduced after a discussion of the
about the lyrics of a certain old Memphis Jug Band tune
that could be
mis-constrewed as promoting a certain habit-forming product once
marketed in drugstores across America.
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The mystery surrounding "If the Shoe Fits", the song we learned from Gordon Thorne, has finally been solved. As we noted, he couldn't recall who wrote it, and our attempts to discover the author had been in vain. The solution came to us anonymously, thanks to someone who was searching for the lyrics and landed on this web site. The song was by blues harp phenom James Harman and has the full title "If the the Shoe Fits (Wear It)". Links to this and other previous song postings are on our "Songs" page. A loose
combination of amateur musicians with years of jugband experience, Fat
Chance covers not only classic jug band tunes from Cannon's Jug
Stompers
and the Memphis Jug Band, but jug band versions of classic country,
blues, early rock, and modern singer songwriters. Unlike many so-called
jug bands, we actually use a jug, as well as washboards, kazoos,
guitars, banjo, mandolin, tub bass, muted tuble, harmonica, shakers,
and
occasionally, fiddle and even the glockenspiel - like metalaphone. Fat
Chance has taken home the trophy at Jug Band Battles throughout
Minnesota.
Available
for bars,
coffeehouses, and other low joints, as well as private parties, country
picnics, festivals and the like. If we feel like it.Thanks for taking a look at our site. Be sure to get in touch with your thoughts and suggestions. We'll be updating now and again, so please check back often. This Very Website
has
been visited by folks
from all over the place:
This website is hosted by awardspace.com, a free webhosting service, except for the music files, and was originally built using the free program Mozilla Composer, (replaced in OSX with KompoZer) on a Macintosh G4 running OS9.2.2, which, come to think of it was a gift, so I guess that was free, too. And we're using Photobucket to host the picture albums and DivShare for the music. (just in case you wanted to know this sort of thing.)
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or by regular mail at: That Fat Chance Jugband
712
27th Avenue
South
Minneapolis, MN 55454
USA
That
Fat Chance Jugband Is (left to
right
below)
(more or less)... Pam: doghouse bass,
recovering
bluegrass refugee.
Bob: muted tubles,
saws, kazoos,
whistles, tub bass, jug, vocal, guitar, salsa & chips
Randy: vocals, guitar, kazoo, cigarettes, wine expertese Kris: washboard, vocals, kazoo, cheese, oysters Cindy:autoharps, vocals, kazoo, spontaneous interjections, carrots, grandchildren, and working on hubcap lap slide guitar. (Cindy is currently on hiatus)
Ludwig: mandolin, banjo, tub bass, rare vocals, exotic beer Al: Kratt harmonicas, vocals, jug, washboard, kazoo, Old Croak Kentucky Straight Embalming Fluid, foot-in-mouth |
The
West Bank Boogie Book We suggest you check out the book by our very own ex-fiddle player Cindy Collins (shown with us at a get-together a few years back below) entitled West Bank Boogie at http://www.westbankboogie.com/index.php. Vintage
photos, profiles and
candid interviews with over 20 westbank area musicians who have been
playing in our neck of the woods since the '60s-- such as Koerner,Ray
and Glover, Shangoya,
Bill Hinkley &
Judy Larson,Willie Murphy,Lazy
Bill Lucas, and Eddie
Berger, as well as folks that shaped the scene- like bon
vivant Red
Nelson, or Ed Felien, publisher of the 100 Flowers
newspaper during
the Great Hippie Scare.
Read about the venues that made it all happen, such as the Triangle Bar and the Viking...the foreword was written by a fellow named Garrison Keillor. It includes a 17-song CD of vintage and mostly out-of-print tracks featuring a good number of the musicians in the book.  Author
Cindy (Fiddle) Collins with
us back in '03 at a session at the good
ol' Seward
Upstairs
Clubhouse,
English Sue (left) joins on maracas. |
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VIKING
BAR: GONE FISHIN',
(STILL CLOSED). 
There's is a City Pages Blog and a Minnewiki
Entry,
where folks have added reminiscences and stories- as well as a swell
story by Cyn Collins in the TC
DailyPlanet |
On the night of the
Viking's last
stand, Randy and the
honourable gentleman were glumly wondering "now where do we goto watch color TV? It's
still sorely missed. Things are just
not the same...
There has been a "For Sale" sign posted on the building recently |
for
more
pictures
from
the Viking Bar's last stand, click on either George or Jay |
