This is a site dedicated to Old Time Music in and around Boise Idaho.

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Last Old-Time Jam until the Fall!!

Tonight is the last old time jam until the fall, 
so come one and come all!

It will resume the Tuesday after Labor Day in September!
Have a fun summer and see you at WEISER!

Pengilly's Saloon
Boise ID

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Hokum Hoedown Square Dance May 2013!


Ladies and Gents!
Friday May 17th at the Linen Building.
7-10pm
with your friends The Hokum Hi-Flyers!
and a cast of callers.

The monthly Hokum Hoedown square dance and old-timey music series continues at 7 p.m. Friday, May 17th, at the Linen Building, 1402 W. Grove St. in Downtown Boise’s Linen District. $7. All ages, full bar (I.D. required), Pie Hole pizza. Plenty of free, off-street parking is available at the Linen Building.

The Hokum Hoedown is a modern take on the old-time hootenanny featuring the infectious swing of the Hokum Hi-Flyers acoustic string band.

At each Hoedown, the Hokum boys per...form a diverse assortment of traditional folk-dance and string-band tunes while a cast of colorful callers directs the dances.

In addition to square dancing, the Hokum Hoedown features some good old-fashioned, swingin’, two-steppin’ western dancing. Young and old, couples and families, tattooed hipsters and ten-gallon cowboys ... the Hokum Hoedown is a come-as-you-are, hand-clappin’ hootenanny for all.

ABOUT HOKUM HI-FLYERS: We play Appalachian old-time mountain music, as well as other forms of unplugged 1920s/30s American roots music (Cajun, swing, traditional country). Our high-energy fiddle tunes will get you on your feet and hollerin' at the rafters. We serve up Hokum and we serve it hot!

THE HOKUM HI-FLYERS ARE:

Scott Knickerbocker: banjo, guitar, fiddle, vocals
Jonah Shue: fiddle, guitar, mandolin, vocals
Travis Ward: guitar, vocals
Gary Shue: guitar, mandolin
Patrick Harren: harmonica
Mike Waite: upright bass

HOKUM HI-FLYERS ONLINE:
http://www.myspace.com/hokumhi-flyers
http://www.facebook.com/hokumhiflyers

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Fiddlers' Pilgrimage: The Weiser Legacy

Fiddlers' Pilgrimage:  The Weiser Legacy
May 10th, 7 pm, at the BSU Special Events Center

Sponsored by the Western Folklife Center

Get a taste of the Weiser Fiddle Festival right here in downtown Boise.  Mark your calendars!
 Hear the sampling of the music that happens
at the
Old Time Fiddler's Festival
and the
Stickerville Encampment. 
It is all too much fun!

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

SECOND CHANCE SQUARE DANCE!! MAY 2013



The Second Chance Square Dance will be held at 7 p.m. Friday, May 3, at the Linen Building, 1402 W. Grove St. in Downtown Boise’s Linen District. $7. All ages, full bar (I.D. required), Pie Hole pizza. Plenty of free, off-street parking is available at the Linen Building.

Modeled after the popular Hokum Hoedown and featuring many familiar faces, the Second Chance Square Dance is a modern take on the old-time hootenanny featuring the infectious swing of an authentic acoustic string band. Providing music for the dance will be Idyltime (http://idyltimemusic.com/).

At each dance, a live band performs a diverse assortment of traditional folk-dance and string-band tunes while a cast of colorful callers directs the dances.

In addition to square dancing, the event features some good old-fashioned, swingin’, two-steppin’ western dancing. Young and old, couples and families, tattooed hipsters and ten-gallon cowboys ... the Second Chance Square Dance is a come-as-you-are, hand-clappin’ hootenanny for all.

ABOUT IDYLTIME: Idyltime is a dynamic four-piece acoustic string band playing original Americana music out of Boise. Idyltime was conceived in the Summer of 2010 in Glasgow, Ore., when four musicians collided by chance. What was intended as an afternoon jam quickly spun out of control. The twister worked its way through Coos County, blistering fingers, emptying whiskey bottles and leaving all in its path tuckered out from dancing long into the brisk coastal nights. In 2011, half of the band (Beth and Tate Mason) moved to Boise and a short hiatus ensued. Recently they've teamed up with Boise old-time favorites Ava Honey and Dave Daley and as a four-piece are continuing to bring the music to the Treasure Valley.