The Sour Mash Hug Band is an eclectic, acoustic dance band that plays everything from Romanian couple dances to Appalachian Hymns to Klezmer to Harlem swing, They are especially known for their original tunes reminiscent of Kurt Weill and Danny Elfman. The band started in Eugene, OR as an old-time band with the classic line-up of claw-hammer banjo, fiddle, guitar, and bass. After a year or two in Eugene they took to the road and traveled by bike, freight train, hitchhiking, and broken down old cars. This took them to Colorado, San Francisco, Bellingham, and finally to New Orleans which became their home away from home. For the past few years the ban= has split their time between San Francisco and New Orleans with a few side-trips to Romania and some touring in between..

The band is led by Fiddlin' Mickey Lee, grandson of a Hungarian fiddler, and brought up in the old-time Ozark tradition he started fiddling at a very tender age. He has fiddled his way all around the country with many different bands. He also plays piano, accordion, and guitar, and spends his spare time studying Baroque music and building puppets.

Other members of the band are Shiri Goldsmith a multi-instrumentalist on Accordion, Trombone, and Banjo-lele. Blu Beverage on 6-String Banjo, and Tuba, and Aaron Goldsmith on Upright Bass, Gitaron, and Ukelele.
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