Posted on January 19, 2009 - by admin
Welcome to the new Ironweed website!
Howdy Ironweed Friends!
With meandering roots from the Missouri Ozarks all the way to Tubingen, Germany, Ironweed continues to bring you only the finest in bluegrass, vintage country and good ol’ hillbilly twang.
The band features champion, Kelly Jones on fiddle, Jane Accurso on guitar and lead vocals, Dierik Leonhard on banjo and vocals and Alan Loshbaugh on upright bass. We have a lot of menu choices on our “Shows and Services” page so please take time to check it out.
We also have some amazing ”power-weed players” available for a bigger sound and/or substituting for one of our regular players, when needed….Joe Wieneman on mandolin and Mark Atkins Lieberman on bass. Multi-instrumentalist, Jake Clayton, is on a national tour right now with songwriter, Jimmy Wayne, and will be touring with Brad Paisley from May through September. We keep his spot warm and waiting on the Ironweed stage.
Ironweed is available for festivals, weddings, concerts, private parties, corporate parties, sidewalk gigs, parades, dances and just about any sort of celebration you’re itchin’ to do.
You can contact us at info@ironweedbluegrassband.com for fee estimates and as always, Ironweed tries to stay budget friendly.
Please take time to look through our website pages and send us a note with any comments or questions.
Thank-you for your support over the past fourteen years and we continue to look forward to seeing all of you, as Flatt and Scruggs would say, “A Hundred Years from Now.”
Kindly yours, The Weeds…
and there’s more….Ironweed has an evil twin..Swampweed, a Cajun Dancehall band… Swampweed features Ehren Oncken on Cajun button accordion and that ornery Jimmy Joe Culbertson on drums, triangle and washboard. Lots of lively dance tunes honoring the Balfa brothers, Dennis McGee, Canray Fontenot, Amede Ardoin, Cheese Reed and many others. Vocals are in Cajun French. For photos of the Swampweeds, check out our “Meet the Bands” page.
A note of distinction:
In April of 2007, Ironweed was selected from a review of several bands to travel to Laoshan, China, our sister city, and represent Columbia and Mid-Missouri. The band did a two-week performance tour in August of 2007 through the Shandong Province appearing on national television and having the highest honor of playing music with Daoist monks in their monastery on Mt. Laoshan.
For photos of this amazing journey of performances and access to the blog please go to:
http://ironweedbluegrassband.blogspot.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ironweedbluegrass
Welcome, friends!
IRONWEED (veronia noveboracensis) is a wildflower that blooms late in the summer. It has a small purple flower at the top, and a strong, iron-like stem. It’s a wild, tough flower but many argue it as a weed with a deep root and hard to get rid of. It’s real pretty and you’ll find it all over Boone County and beyond. Oh, and did we mention..the cows just won’t go near it.
IRONWEED (pickum singum excellentis) is a BLUEGRASS BAND from Columbia, Missouri formed in 1994. Some folks around here say there are strong similarities between the band and the wildflower. The IRONWEED BLUEGRASS BAND has developed a long, strong suit of hard-drivin' traditional and non-traditional bluegrass tunes. And when the folks want to dance, they can play some nice waltzes and two-steps, too. Their pickin' is awfully good -- and some will tell you that the singing is even better. This is a band to see, hear, and enjoy -- live!
