The Music Bachs

For the last 30 years music has been a big part of our lives. I'm not talking about just listening, I'm talking about playing and producing. My wife and I got into bluegrass music in the mid 90s, and we've been going strong with that ever since. We began with listening, then moved to playing, and eventually that led to producing. My wife plays a rock solid stand up bass, and sings beautifully, while I play guitar, banjo, mandolin, harmonica and sing. We've been in a couple bluegrass band in the past, but for the last several years we've performed as a duet. In 2021 we began volunteering at a living history museum in Nevada City, Montana. The program centered around the years 1863-1865, and during the summer we would dress in period clothing, and we'd play 1860s music for the museum guests. The lady who ran the program called us "The Music Bachs": we liked the name and adopted it as our continuing stage name. 

For the museum gig we had to learn civil war era songs. My main instrument had always been the mandolin, but that didn't really fit in, so I switch the the banjo and played it the frailing style. I'll do a separate post on the museum at some point, but for today I'd like to post some videos/recordings of us. The recordings are professional quality, while the live videos are simply videos from museum attendees. Additionally I'll see if I can dredge up a video or two of our music from past bands.

Here's some songs we recorded in the studio last fall.

The Old Cane Press

We'll Fight for Uncle Sam

Nellie Bly

Cindy, Cindy

Here's a couple live videos from the museum

The Ship That Never Returned

Battle Hymn of the Republic

And finally a couple from past bands

Molly Rose (Whistlestop Band)

All Aboard (Klamath River Ramblers)