The Jake Leg Jug Band

A third visit to the Jazz Centre for this fun, good-time country blues and vaudeville band.

The Jake Leg Jug Band brings you the authentic sounds of 1920s and 20s America - jazz, blues, ragtime and gospel. Songs of murder, betrayal, gambling, liquor and redemption. With a live show that guarantees old-fashioned feel-good entertainment - transporting the audience back in time to the prohibition era, with a sound and look refined from 14 years on the road.

Jake Leg’s Duncan Wilcox: “We play jazz, blues, ragtime, gospel, vaudeville, and old-time music. The skiffle movement was basically the British interpretation of the earlier American jug band movement, just like the trad jazz movement was a reinterpretation of the earlier New Orleans Dixieland jazz, and the British Blues invasion of the 60s mirrored the Chicago electric blues of the 50s. It’s feel-good music and there is a lack of that in the mainstream…