The Strung Out String Band is a six person acoustic ensemble dedicated to interpreting "Old Time Southern" music. We aim to blast audiences into a frenzied dimension of ecstatic boogieing using fiddle, banjo, guitar and, in the great tradition of those who followed before us, anything we can get our hands on. We are based in Brooklyn, USA.

Please take a moment to learn more about us, listen to our music and book us for your event or venue. Or, simply read our musings and gig announcements below.

Gig at the Roots Cafe

May 27, 2010

[ May 28, 2010; 9:30 pm; ] This Friday night the Strung Out String Band will be playing old timey music at the Roots Cafe in the ever hipsterifying South Park Slope, Brooklyn. We’ll be strumming on banjos, singin’ murder ballads, and pretending that it’s 1928 starting at 9:30 and playing one exceedingly long set that will end at 10:30pm. [...]

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Busking at the Brooklyn Flea

May 13, 2010
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[ June 12, 2010; 11:00 am to 2:00 pm. ] While we love playing music venues with assigned seating, private parties for corporate big-wigs, and letting loose on grungy bar stages, nothing fires us up more than taking to the streets and busking for good will, tips, and the hope of turning people on to old time music. This Saturday, May 15th, we will [...]

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Nate interviewed about Old Timey music

May 4, 2010
Nathaniel Landau Video Capture

Last summer our fiddle player Nate Landau sat down for a brief video interview about the Bibb County Hoedown, old timey music and busking at the Union Square green market when the bottom fell out of the tech bubble in 2001.

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R.I.P. Freddy’s Old Time Jam

April 23, 2010
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For the past seven years the Strung Out String Band has organized an old time jam at Freddy’s Bar in Park Slope, Brooklyn. We’ve loved every minute of the banjo banging, fiddle dripping, murder ballad swilling good times. Unfortunately, as I’m sure you know, Freddy’s is finally slated for Ratner’s wrecking ball. [...]

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Strung Out String Band CD Release Concert

March 17, 2010
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[ March 25, 2010 8:00 pm to March 26, 2010 9:00 am. ] The untold hours we have spent in the studio recording our own versions of such timeless classics such as Shove the Pig’s Foot Further in the Fire and Fiddler’s Dram have culminated in a CD release party extravaganza that will take place on Thursday, March 25th in beautiful Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, USA. We will [...]

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St. Patty’s Day

March 3, 2010
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[ March 17, 2010; 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm. ] Celebrate St. Patty’s day with live music from the Strung Out String Band at 68 Jay St. Bar in DUMBO. We promise room temperature Guinness, great people and possibly some step dancing.

Now, you might be thinking to yourself, “Hey, don’t you guys play Americana? St. Patty’s day is for Irish music.” And [...]

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Freddy’s Old Time Jam

March 3, 2010
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[ April 1, 2010; 9:00 pm to 11:00 pm. ] Once a month we host a jam filled with musicians, hipsters, alcoholics and ethno-musicologists who attempt to play music together using acoustic instruments and generally staying somewhere near the key of G (or A, or something). We gather at Freddy’s on the first Thursday of every month to beat back the ever encroaching arms of [...]

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Freddy’s Old Time Jam

March 3, 2010
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[ March 4, 2010; 9:00 pm to 11:00 pm. ] Once a month we host a jam filled with musicians, hipsters, alcoholics and ethno-musicologists who attempt to play music together using acoustic instruments and generally staying somewhere near the key of G (or A, or something). We gather at Freddy’s on the first Thursday of every month to beat back the ever encroaching arms of [...]

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Clog Dancing On The Porch

February 2, 2010
Porch Clog Dancing

Following up on the recent video we posted of an old-timey house party we found this video from 1964 featuring Bascom Lunsford dancing and playing music on the porch of a friend. Great music and great clogging.

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Robby’s Video Interview

January 25, 2010
Robby interviewed about banjo playing

The Strung Out String Band’s very own banjo player Robby O’Sullivan is a YouTube star! He was recently interviewed about playing Soldier’s Joy on the banjo and how he got involved in New York City’s Old Time Music scene.

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