Canned Goods: COMFEST June 24, 2012

Sunday, June 24, 2012

COMFEST June 24, 2012

Bucket list goal of playing COMFEST: Achieved!

What great fans! The Howes made shirts just for the event. Thanks Jason & Kate.

Sound check.

Don't start without Randy.

An Elephant Never Forgets: An original song about a circus elephant named Mary who killed her abusive trainer and was executed by hanging for the murder in Erwin, Tennessee. This song was written by Jason Hudson and features Ben Phillips on the mournful saw. This video was recorded live at ComFest in Columbus, OH on June 24, 2012. Dedicated to Jason's dad who told him this story.

Click on the link below to see the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy4K8cEtbTY&feature=player_embedded

We'll put some more video up soon. Many thanks to all the great folks that came out to see us and to all of the COMFEST volunteers who work so hard to put on this great festival. It's my favorite part of Columbus.

Bios

Canned Goods is a jugless jug band, playing early American music: jug band, country, blues, string band, tin pan alley, and viper jazz on tenor banjos, ukuleles, washboards, kazoos, harmonicas and double bass.

J. Randall Hicks lives with his family in Grove City and works for Ohio State University where he uses his background in theater and film to showcase the Ohio Unions as Multimedia Coordinator.

Jason Hudson lives in Upper Arlington with his family and is an elementary school teacher, where he lead the student Ukulele Orchestra for several years. He is now comtemplating teaching all of his students to play the saw, but is consulting attorneys first:)

Josh Wydick is our newest member. Josh spends his days refurbishing fine instruments at the Guitar House Workshop. You can hear Josh on bass , guitar, banjo, accordion, fiddle, saw, jing tinglers, flu dloopers, tar tinkers, who hoovers, gar ginkers, trum tupers, slu slumkers, blum bloopers, who wompers, zu zitter carzays, and the who carnio flunx.