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Join Arlington Center for the Arts for their annual Great Northeast Jug Band Festival. New England’s ONLY Jug Band Festival will highlight traditions from the 1920’s and 30’s, and the modern evolution of this good-time music. Bring your lawn chairs and blankets and enjoy performances by three of the region's best Jug Bands!
NEW THIS YEAR! Join the night before at Donut Villa for an Open Jug Band Jam!
Arlington Craft Beer Garden is presented by the Jason Russell House and Arlington Historical Society. Craft Beer by Medford Brewing Company and Food By Menotomy Grill & Tavern.
Welcoming Jim Kweskin to the Jug Band Festival!
ACA is thrilled to be welcoming the legendary Jim Kweskin to the festival this year! Kweskin is the founder of the legendary 1960s Jim Kweskin Jug Band , which was instrumental in keeping the jug band traditions of the 1920’s and 30’s alive into this century. These days Jim is best known as a singer and bandleader. He created one of the bedrock guitar styles of the folk revival, adapting ragtime-blues fingerpicking to the more complex chords of pop and jazz. He continues to explore traditional folk and blues with the sophisticated sensibility of a jazz musician, and jazz with the communal simplicity of a folk artist. Kweskin is recognized as one of the best interpreters of the great American songbook.
The line up this year features Jim Kweskin performing with a hand-picked group of musicians and sets by Outrageous Fortune and The Busted Jug Band.
