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Flexible, goofy, sometimes serious, well-fed, that's us --- The Rubber Chicken String Band! We love to play music and sing, especially old timey stuff from the last 100 years or so, traditional bluegrass music, contemporary folk music (a la John Prine, Robert Earl Keene, Buffy St. Marie, and others), a touch of rock, and our own original material. There are four of us: two chickens (Lynn Furnis and Mary Larson) and two roosters (Mark McDonald and Billy VanDyke). We play bass, mandolin, octave mandolin, guitar, banjo, dobro, and fiddle. Our motto is: "The more you drink, the better we sound!!" |
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| The band formed in the summer of 1998, and the name came about because it was real rubber chickens that brought us all together at a potluck that year. On first meeting, Mary showed Lynn her very worn but still-in-use rubber chicken key chain; Lynn showed off a pair of rubber chickens hanging on her front gate, set out especially to mark the party location that day. Within weeks, we had a band and a band name. Poultry in motion, you might say!
We have played for weddings, for backyard barbeques, for the Nevada Historical Society Fun Day, for teacher education workshops, for the Quincy Farmer's Market, Portola summer City Light concerts, for the Westerners Club, at several Washoe County libraries for special events (our alias is "The Periodicals"), for numerous fund-raisers such as the Virginia City Pre-School Silent Auction, Graeagle and Portola Head Start events, the Virginia City Elementary School Playground Equipment Fund-raiser, for the Northern Nevada Bluegrass Association's 2006 WinterFest, and more. The Chickens have also been known to entertain in bars in Virginia City, Portola, and Elko. For the past nine years, "The Chickens" have provided all of the live music for the Great American Craft Fairs in Graeagle, California, in both July and August. Five years ago, we went into the studio and recorded a promotional CD for free distribution. One day soon, we hope to record another. For bookings contact: mmcdonald@psln.com or (530) 832 5435 |
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