Bay Area scrub board impresario and session musician Jimmy Sweetwater
presents his third Showcase Special at the Great American Music Hall
Thursday, August 17th. Sweetwater's last showcases shows have proved
tremendously successful in bringing deserved attention to up and coming
stellar local Bay Area musicians as well as giving these groups a chance to
shine in one of San Francisco's most historic and best sounding venues.

Rube Waddell is working more than ever to incite their audiences to fervors of dance, laughter, and bewilderment. Like changing the channel of an imaginary radio station, the Rubes unrelenting energetic set jumps from strains of Mexican Banda to Swampy-lo-fi Blues; from Country Western and Appalachian Jug Band to Punk infused atonal instrumentals; from Celtic influenced melodies and rhythms to ones of Asianand Mid-Eastern descent.
Employing their arsenal of ukuleles, Sousaphone, trumpet, guitars, tablas, tin whistles, accordion, harmonica, homemade "diddly-bows", found junk-yard percussion, and other rusted-out noisemakers, the Rubes will be bringing into their own post-modern "Great American" music experience for all to enjoy.

The SF WEEKLY has described Karpov as "Passionate Gypsy folk rock with dark Klezmer and Appalachian undertones." Soaring vocal harmonies and an instrumentation of guitar, accordion, clarinet, drums, and stand-up bass provide a canvas on which tales of drunkenness,love, isolation, and angry discord are drawn. Karpov as well will be debuting work from their new album to be released at the show.
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ounding out the evening will be Mr. Sweetwater himself performing with veteran neo-bluegrass/jug-rock house-shakers JIMBO TROUT AND THE FISH PEOPLE, who share with these groups the need and ability to re-interpret folk music with their own deranged 21st Century sensibilities.