Artist description In preindustrial Dorset, in the south of England, Rough Music wasa community's gut-level reaction to nasty goings-on, whether it was somebody doing somebody else wrong or the local gentry exacting abit more than the usual pound of flesh. Rough music is us ... rough, musical, and connected tohead and heart.

Music Style Alternative Rock

Musical Influences Thomas Hardy and the Pessimists, Its a Beautiful Day!, REM, Don Conoscenti, Darrell Scott, Richard Thompson

Artist History Formed around 1898 by the acclaimed novelest Thomas Hardy(not!), Rough Music played its first paying gig at the Skimmity Ride in the Mayor of Casterbridge. In various incarnations it surfaced in both Villages, San Francisco, Baltimore, and now its native Cabin John Maryland, by theshores of the Gitchigoo ... whups Potomac.

Group Members Robin and a cast of thousands, some living, some not solively

Instruments Electric and Acoustic Guitars, Fretless Bass, Button and Piano Accordion

Press Reviews See the pressed fairy book ...

Location Cabin John, MD - USA

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