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Ken and Jean performed as a duo (banjo/guitar and piano) for private parties in the early 80's, and the duo expanded into the Devil Mountain Jazz Band in 1982. They soon became friends with Wally Rose, learning more about the old music, especially the West Coast Revival styles of Lu Watters and Turk Murphy.
KEN KEELER - Leader, banjo, guitar. A former pilot for the USAF and TWA, Ken is retired from an industrial sales career in electronics instrumentation, and continues life as a farmer and freelance musician/ band manager. As a boy, he played banjo and mandolin in the family square dance band, backing his father as dance caller.
May 12, 2024 · Devil Mountain Jazz Band. Photo by Nancy Grissette, 2019. DMJB is not scheduled this month, but you can see and hear some of the band’s musicians this coming Wednesday: Wednesday May 15th, 7-9PM: the 11 pc. Jambalaya Swing Band at Rossmoor Event Center, presenting a great show and history of Big Band Dixieland Music.
“Keeler calling” was the sound that started every square dance. Often his calling was accompanied by the family band, The Happy Humdingers, which included Lois on accordion, daughter Mollie on fiddle and son Kenny on banjo and trombone. Kenny is now a Dixieland musician of some fame on the west coast.
Nov 25, 2019 · Since he entered the mainstream of traditional jazz music, the list of groups and people that Mazzy has played with is enormous: Butch Thompson, Dick Shooshan’s Golden Eagles, Ken Keeler’s Devil Mountain Jazz Band, George Knoblauch’s Black Diamond Blue Five, the Professor Plum Jazz Band led by cornetist Phil Kirk, Bob Schultz (associated ...
Ken Keeler is an American television producer and writer. He has written for numerous television series, most notably The Simpsons and Futurama. According to an interview with David X. Cohen, he proved a theorem that appears in the Futurama episode "The Prisoner of Benda".
A Bit of History. In 1982, Bill Gunter (Sacremento Washboardist Extraordinaire) had the idea to try a Washboard Concert at the 1983 Sacramento Jubilee. For several years, the Jubilee had been doing a Banjorama, Tubarama. and a concert known as "More than 76 Trombones". Everybody thought it was a crazy idea that would not go beyond the first year.
