Artist description Acoustic Mayhem is old time string band instruments tackling new frontiers with rollicking tunes, dancing, sing along songs, and just plain fun.With a repertoire that ranges from Cajun to classical and experience performing at festivals, schools, square dances, retirement homes and historical celebrations they entertain everyone from 3 to 103.Every song listed here on the mp3 site is available on a DAM CD This includes lyrics, and more. Our full CD, Traditional Music and More... is available at our website listed below. THANKS for visiting our page, we'd love to her from you.

Music Style Folk, traditional string band

Musical Influences Iowa City music scene, families

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Artist History Acoustic Mayhem got its start in the fall of 1992 and evolved into its current line up in ‘94. The past 5+ yearshave been a blur to us, age I guess, but as Mike K says,“You see a bunch of 50 year old rock stars and say ‘What a bunch of geezers!’ you see 50 year old folk singers andsay, ‘My, how authentic!’ “ We’re approaching authenticity.

Group Members Loren Brumm, Margaret Brumm, Rick Dehn, Mike Haverkamp, Mike Kanellis

Instruments fiddle, banjo, guitar, bass, autoharp, mandolin, spoons, jaw harp

Albums Traditional Music and More...

Press Reviews ICON Independent News Weekly:"Acoustic Mayhem manages to elude the whole ego issue--while they masterfully play rollicking, thoughtful, funny, wistful, contemporary and nostalgic music without creating much of a fuss. What's the story?" Read the full article here: http://www.jeonet.com/icon/backs/1997/06-09-97/music2.htm Jim Musser, IC Press Citizen:"Acoustic Mayhem have finally released their first CD. This big-hearted parlor recording delivers the essence of this treasured Iowa City folk quartet's raison d'etre; which is to briskly play and sing time-honored songs in such an infectious,unvarnished and recognizable fashion that all barriers to the listenerjoining in are obliterated."Read the full review at: http://zeus.ia.net/~mayhem/Frames/MayhemReview.html#Musser Rob Denton, Nova Scotia, CA, Bluegrass Listserv:"Acoustic Mayhem plays with a naturalness that one could only find among family and friends as they relax together and have fun sharing songs or telling stories. Instrumentation on this CD is well balanced too.Read the full review at: http://zeus.ia.net/~mayhem/Frames/MayhemReview.html

Location Iowa City, Iowa - USA

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