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A Little About Us

We are a very spontaneous group based out of Knoxville, TN. There is no telling
where you might catch us playing around town. We will try to keep a list of our
upcoming shows posted, so that we are a little easier to track down.

Dec 31

Looking Forward to 2012

Between busking on market square, weddings, anniversaries, dance parties and dinner parties, it's been a busy year for us. We had some great trips around the southeast and are looking forward to more in the next year. We appreciate all of the fans, friends and family that have come out to support us over the years and hope you have enjoyed your time spent listening.

Happy New Year

Jul 01

Busking July 4th Weekend

We'll be out a couple times this weekend. Tomorrow for First Friday and then again Saturday Morning for the Farmers' Market. After being off for most of June, it feels really good to be able to get out and busk again. There is something about the simplicity of playing outside, no microphones, no stage, just on the street corner in the sun (or preferably the shade).

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May 22

First busking of 2011 caught on film!

I just saw that some lovely person put up a great video of us busking on youtube! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76rGbB44snY That was the day of the Chalk Art Walk on Market Square, our first busking day of the season! We're looking forward to a fun busking summer!! :-)

Apr 01

Expanding the Songbook, Looking for input

Birthdays, weddings, dogs and dancers. Boy, have we had a busy month. We played at an awesome wedding the beginning of this month on the Maryville College campus. (Fun fact: Maryville College has its own forest.) This wedding was awesome for a number of reasons, but like most things the people made it great. The guests were getting into the music with an enthusiasm that not even an overly supportive mother could muster. They were shouting out requests for songs that I know and love, but all those words are hard to keep straight.

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Feb 04

Pre-Valentine's Dance at The Laurel Theatre Feb 9th

Notice to all guys: Build up your Brownie points. Impress your girlfriend. Take her out dancing. Get all this for less than $5!

The Knoxville Swing Dance Association is hosting a lesson and dance at the Laurel Theatre on Wednesday, Feb 9th. The lessons will get started at 7:00pm and then we'll start playing at 8:00pm. It is $2 / $1 (KSDA member). The Laurel is downtown on the corner of 16th St. and Laurel Ave.

See you there!

Dec 12

Christmas Time Is Here

We've been pretty busy these past couple weeks. Between school and shows I don't think any of us have slept much. My classes are finished now and I'm going to try to catch up on all of the things that I've neglected for the past month and a half. I've been whittling away at the stack of dirty dishes in my sink and I can see part of my bedroom floor again.

The end of November we played a show with Amien, our old washboard and harmonica player. It was fun to play with him again. Hopefully we'll do some more shows with him in the near future.

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Nov 13

Volunteer Princess Dinner Cruise

We played during a dinner cruise on the Volunteer Princess last night! It was a more mellow crowd... a big change from the last few dancer gigs we've played! But it was fun, and gave us a chance to break out some songs we don't get to play as often! (This Can't Be Love, It Had To Be You...) If you missed this one, we're playing another dinner cruise in December! Stay tuned for details!

Nov 06

Benefit Concert for Andrew McDonald tonight

Come dance to the sounds of Christabel and the Jons, The Old City Buskers and The Streamliners for a benefit dance for Andrew MacDonald. The Bands have agreed to donate their time and talents for this dance. Michael Gill of Alive After Five and Blue Gill Productions will be the MC for the event.

All proceeds will be going to the Andrew MacDonald Cancer Fund. As you may know Andrew MacDonald has been diagnosed with Stage 3 Hodgkins. Andrew is facing numerous medical procedures and cost.

Tickets for this extravaganza are a minimum donation of $10.00

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Oct 08

Wedding in the Mountains (bears included... sorta)

We played a wedding in the Smokeys last Saturday. It was a really cool venue, a big open air pavilion with a rustic stone fireplace at one end. It felt like we were really out in the wilderness. The was forest thick and there was a stream right next to the pavilion that you could hear anytime we stopped playing. Just before we started playing a ranger came down to tell us that some bears were spotted climbing on cars near our location. Fortunately, they never made their way to the reception.

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The Old City Buskers are commonly mistaken for the Old City Busters. In retrospect we should have considered that our name sounds a lot like Old City Busters. As it turns out Old City Huskers is another way to mistake our name. I'm not sure if it supposed to be Old City Husker or Old City Huskers, but either way, they are all supposed to be Old City Buskers