HOWDY FOLKS!!

THE IRONWEEDS AND SWAMPWEEDS:

The Ironweed Bluegrass Band will be whoopin and hollerin’ as they head down the road to some great gigs! From Jimmy Martin to Hazel Dickens, you can expect a bucketful of tunes about trains, moonshine, dirt, heartaches, pigs, corn and girls named Sophronie…coming to a festival, party or venue near you.

The Swampweed Cajun Dancehall Band will be heading down that same road with TRADITIONAL, FOOT-STOMPIN, ACCORDION SQUEEZED, FRENCH HOWLIN’  MUSIC FROM THE SWAMPS. Only the finest in Dancehall music!

For information about booking either or both of these rowdy, fun bands just e-mail or give us a holler:
info@ironweedbluegrassband.com, 573 673-8477…now a note from the bands.

Howdy Friends!

We hope you are enjoying summer days filled with toe tappin’ music, family gatherings, and sittin’ beneath a lazy, weepin’ willow tree…

Ironweed and Swampweed want to welcome new, incoming slap-bass man, Matthew Bossaller! We appreciate Matt’s great history with roots music and his expertise on the dog-house, upright bass.

Ironweed Bluegrass Band, Swampweed Cajun Band and Dierik and Jane have some great tunes and upcoming events planned so please be checking out our updated schedule page!

We also have private parties and weddings planned (not listed, don’t figure Sally and Earl want all of you showin’ up at their wedding without enough moonshine to go around)…so, as you check in for bookings, always send an e-mail our way for availability dates. <info@ironweedbluegrassband.com> 573 673-8477

..the Ironweed details…

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, master Joe Wieneman on mandolin and harmony vocals, Jane Accurso on guitar and lead vocals, Dierik Leonhard on banjo and vocals and Matt Bossaller on upright slap bass. We have a lot of menu choices on our “Shows and Services” page so please take time to check it out.

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….

Swampweed Cajun Band

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 his personally assembled “wash-tar.”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.

and on a final note…

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