The Mayocks

Tim & John Mayock have been writing and playing music together for most of their lives. The Danger Brothers, their roots rock ensemble of the late eighties and early nineties, produced a progressive self titled EP on Bag-O-Cats

records  (distributed by Caroline Records), which earned the band a devoted local following. The EP received airplay on stations WHCN, WWUH, and WCCC while their live shows included performances with The Greg Allman Band, NRBQ, The Guess Who, Lone Justice and The Beat Farmers.

Tim Mayock’s credits include stints as lead guitarist in Radio Ranch, bassist in bands Velvet & Steel and Dance Committee, while John has shared the stage with Buddy Cage of the New Riders of The Purple Sage, and Nashville songwriter Gary Burr’s, Serious Business Band.

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Mighty Purple
w/Full Band

Brothers Steve and Jon Rodgers, the song writing team of the long standing underground band, Mighty Purple have just finished recording their first and long-awaited, largely-acoustic album entitled "Arms  And   Voices". The  album

is a far cry from the recordings of their early years (which were sometimes noted as heartfelt yet derivative) The latest batch of songs, convey stories of the brothers' lives, spiritual journeys and friendships, told in such a way that the listener can relate to. In a world where attitude, image and fleeting success run rampant, Steve and Jon have a true longevity with their true passion for writing music and connecting with their listeners. The Brothers have a complex story that has been told in small pieces along their songwriting Journey. “Arms and Voices” is sure to have a cross generational appeal with a modern-acoustic, yet timeless and comfortably familiar sound. Steve and Jon have been touring for well over ten years…(2000 + shows) and have released 7 albums with their band, on three different independent labels.

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The New Farmington
River Royal Ragtime Ramblers

The N.F.R.R.R.R. is a skiffle band (or spasm band, as they were called in New Orleans in the 1890s) and not a jug band, although we are occasionally referred to as such. Historically, skiffle bands were made up of amateurs who played by ear and used conventional  instruments  when  they  could  afford

them, but usually used odd instruments such as washboards, cigar box violins, kazoos and whisky barrel basses, which were mostly home-made. We follow that pattern in using the washboard for rhythm and a home modified kazoo. And we continue another skiffle band tradition: we do play by ear, and the our “arrangements”, as such, are improvised, meaning a given song is never played quite the same way twice. (In fact, sometimes we don’t play a song the same way once!)

The group started as a banjo-washboard duet playing at Simsbury's Riversplash Weekend in the late 1980s  (1988 or 1989?), and has played as the NFRRRR ever since, adding additional instruments as time went on. Most of our gigs are in the Farmington Valley. (The rumor that we continually change the name of the group to avoid creditors, angry fans and unforgiving music lovers, is, for the most part, unfounded.)