About Us
Lauren Brunelle
Bill Fisher
As a teenager in the mid-’60s I was a guitar-pickin’ folkie. I was first inspired by The Kingston Trio and Peter, Paul and Mary, but later, as a resultof listening to DJ Jefferson Kaye’s Sunday night “Hootenanny” on WBZ, I became aware of the great Cambridge and New York pickers, including The Jim Kweskin Jug Band, Geoff Muldaur and Dave Van Ronk, and many others. So, while my high school classmates were groovin’ to the Beatles and Herman’s Hermits, I and a few fellow travelers at my school instead became hooked on jug band music -- so much so that, during senior year, we formed our own jug band. Although the band broke up as we all headed off to college, I’ve always retained my love for the music, and I’m excited to once again be a member of a jug band.
As a teenager in the mid-’60s I was a guitar-pickin’ folkie. I was first inspired by The Kingston Trio and Peter, Paul and Mary, but later, as a resultof listening to DJ Jefferson Kaye’s Sunday night “Hootenanny” on WBZ, I became aware of the great Cambridge and New York pickers, including The Jim Kweskin Jug Band, Geoff Muldaur and Dave Van Ronk, and many others. So, while my high school classmates were groovin’ to the Beatles and Herman’s Hermits, I and a few fellow travelers at my school instead became hooked on jug band music -- so much so that, during senior year, we formed our own jug band. Although the band broke up as we all headed off to college, I’ve always retained my love for the music, and I’m excited to once again be a member of a jug band.
Lori Haddad
After a 20-year stint at the Worcester County Jail and House of Correction, adult education teacher Lori May Haddad is finally paroled to the laundry line of the Wormtown Mugwumps. She loves her new-found vocation as wizard of the washboard, singing a few tunes along the way, like some sorta ol' timey cowhand.
After a 20-year stint at the Worcester County Jail and House of Correction, adult education teacher Lori May Haddad is finally paroled to the laundry line of the Wormtown Mugwumps. She loves her new-found vocation as wizard of the washboard, singing a few tunes along the way, like some sorta ol' timey cowhand.
Rick Levine
Rickcame to the guitar during The Great Folk Scare of the early 1960s, cutting his musical teeth in the styles of Dave Van Ronk, Tom Rush and Steve Webber. He was a member of the seminal country/folk/rock band, The Prairie Oysters, which included current Mugwump Bill Fisher. In addition to The Mugwumps, Rick currently plays with Cosmic Slim, and singer/songwriter Donald Prange.
Rickcame to the guitar during The Great Folk Scare of the early 1960s, cutting his musical teeth in the styles of Dave Van Ronk, Tom Rush and Steve Webber. He was a member of the seminal country/folk/rock band, The Prairie Oysters, which included current Mugwump Bill Fisher. In addition to The Mugwumps, Rick currently plays with Cosmic Slim, and singer/songwriter Donald Prange.
Lisa McCarthy
Donald Prange
I grew up on a farm listening to Hank Williams, Bill Monroe, Perry Como, and lots of gospel. My great grandmother played the banjo, my great aunt played guitar in an all women's swing band, and my mom played piano. Discovered jug band music one summer when I was eight. There was a band playing at a local hillbilly music festival. The Wormtown Mugwumps found me while I was hitchhiking through Minglewood. They needed a banjo and a jug, but let me come along too.
I grew up on a farm listening to Hank Williams, Bill Monroe, Perry Como, and lots of gospel. My great grandmother played the banjo, my great aunt played guitar in an all women's swing band, and my mom played piano. Discovered jug band music one summer when I was eight. There was a band playing at a local hillbilly music festival. The Wormtown Mugwumps found me while I was hitchhiking through Minglewood. They needed a banjo and a jug, but let me come along too.
Queen Jane Ukulele Cunningham, Approximately
So here's a few lines about Jane.
How she got here, who can explain?
She joins in with her uke,
With the Mugwumps she'll juke,
and with them play many a refrain.
So here's a few lines about Jane.
How she got here, who can explain?
She joins in with her uke,
With the Mugwumps she'll juke,
and with them play many a refrain.
Alicia Weir
Practitioner of the healing arts by day, Alicia partakes in joyous forgetfulness in the evenings & enjoys making an unholy racket whenever she can. She considers herself a “Jack of Many Instruments, and Master of None,” as she happily plays ukulele, piano, and electric bass, but has yet to make sense of the Circle of Fifths.
Practitioner of the healing arts by day, Alicia partakes in joyous forgetfulness in the evenings & enjoys making an unholy racket whenever she can. She considers herself a “Jack of Many Instruments, and Master of None,” as she happily plays ukulele, piano, and electric bass, but has yet to make sense of the Circle of Fifths.