Greg Bennett - Fiddle, Brian Hirsh - Bass, Mark Kunkel - Guitar, David Stabbe - Mandolin
Influences
Bill Monroe, David Grisman, Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks, Andy Statman, Tommy Jarrell, Gid Tanner and the Skillet Lickers, 7 foot dilly and his dillpickles, hoyt ming and his pepsteppers, Bruce molsky, Foghorn String Band, Peter Rowan, The Asylum Street Spankers, R. Crumb and his Cheap Suit Serenaders, Red Knuckels and the Trailblazers, The Red Clay Ramblers, The Beat Farmers, The Knitters, Jerry Garcia, Tony Rice, Steve Kaufman, John Hartford, Bob Wills, Yid Vicious, Harmonious Wail, Cork 'N Bottle String Band, The Kinks, Si Kahn, and Bugs Bunny
Sounds Like
A mandolin, a bass, a guitar and a violin playing together with the occasional bit of vocals.
Trails End String Band formed in 2004 from a casual picking session in a back room of the now defunct Paul's Speedway Bar in Madison, WI. It was during a weekly Monday bluegrass jam, and a guitar player and bass player who had played together before met up with a fiddle player and mandolin player who had played together before. We started picking some familiar tunes and by the third song had attracted a small crowd of onlookers. It was around that time we thought it would be a good idea to introduce ourselves to each other. We exchanged numbers and met up to do some weekly porch picking.
Once we started to meet regularly, we realized that just doing bluegrass was not enough to satisfy our musical tastes. We added a few jazz standards to the set list, and then a few Dawg tunes. A few klezmer songs joined the list soon after that, as did many old-time and fiddle tunes.
Hi! We Buffali are excited to announce our first-ever FULL BAND SHOW. High Noon, next Thursday, 11/1 at 9pm - we play first! We're part of a whole fun outer space night involving Star Wars Trivia, Chad Vader, improv comedy and Droids Attack. We're fundraising for FoRCE, a group promoting the arts in Madison. And, new mp3s are up on our website! Heck yes.
hi friends!
we are celebrating Dane101's two-year birthday party at the king club this thursday. dane101.com does tons to support local music so we will be loving for you to come out and help us say thanks. and party it up!
the show: the theramones, goat radio, the shabelles & us buffali, 9 pm, 4/12, $5.
