4/20 has damn near become a holiday in the Lawrence music scene. Every year, we see bands and venues candidly schedule outrageous lineups for the …
Wow, Christmas really is right around the corner. It feels like the holiday snuck up on everyone a little quickly this year. But in the …
Leave it to the musicians in the Alferd Packer Memorial String Band to completely NERD OUT on science. It’s no secret that Lawrence’s favorite weirdo …
Genre: Old Time String Band with Augmentations Members: Lauralyn Bodle, Noah Musser, Matt Kirby, Steve Mason, Mike Yoder Website: http://www.alferdpackerband.com/ Formed in 1979 in Lawrence, …
“We like to do songs about science. But first, we’re going to ironically do a song about Kansas.” This line from the dulcimer player for …
It was probably the chairs that grabbed everyone’s attention at first. There were rows of them, all lined up in front of the stage at …
Beloved folk artists, quirky musicians… serenaders of death? The Alferd Packer Memorial String Bang can be called all of those things. They get us boogying …
