Old Time Music For Your Dancing Pleasure
photo by Suzy Gorman/www.suzygorman.com
The Mound City Slickers play old-time string band music with passion, drive, and a great sense of humor. Hailing from the St. Louis region, The Slickers have played festivals, house concerts and more than a few contra and square dances throughout Missouri and Illinois. Steeped in tradition, their concerts are a unique mix of hard-driving dance tunes, country harmonies, Midwest fiddle tunes, rags, and other surprises that have made them favorites of the old-time string band scene. Their high-energy playing and ear for a good tune make for good listening, good dancing, and good times. The band is Sean Belt (ukuleles), Lindell Blackford (fiddle & mandolin), Rich Hibbs (banjo), Rich Egan (piano), and Keith Dudding (guitar).
Why The "Mound City" Slickers?
The Slickers are a St. Louis, MO band and remember that, before St. Louis was "The Gateway City", it was known as "The Mound City".
According to Wikipedia:
The area that would become St. Louis was a center of the indigenous Mississippian culture, known at its peak about 1200 CE for building elaborate and complex city sites with numerous earthworkmounds for ceremonial and burial purposes. The mounds, now almost all destroyed by nineteenth-century development, earned the later European-American city the nickname of "Mound City".
According to Wikipedia:
The area that would become St. Louis was a center of the indigenous Mississippian culture, known at its peak about 1200 CE for building elaborate and complex city sites with numerous earthworkmounds for ceremonial and burial purposes. The mounds, now almost all destroyed by nineteenth-century development, earned the later European-American city the nickname of "Mound City".
