Please note that I am generally overwhelmed with individuals and bands asking for listings. I would be interested in having some other enterprising person take over this band list service.

• Fairbanks area
• Anchorage/Palmer/Wasilla/Talkeetna area
• Kenai Peninsula / Southcentral
• Juneau & Southeast
• Elsewhere
• How to list your folk band

• Ice Jam is a musical pileup of hammered dulcimer, banjo and guitar with Seth Danielson, Sarah Garland and Skip Nodler. You can email Skip at skip(at)mosquitonet.com for further info.

• Northern River from Fairbanks - Northern traditional bluegrass with southern Appalachian roots - Carl Hoffman, Gary Markley, Joe Page, Albert McDonnell. Call Carl at 488-9376.

• Clark County - Fairbanks based bluegrass of the finest order, including Nathan Swartz (guitar and mandolin), Jeremy Kane (banjo), George Gianakopoulos (bass), Holland Sands (mandolin), Danny Berberich (dobro), and Dan Ison (guitar). Contact Jeremy at: fsjmk1@aurora.alaska.edu. You can also read a review of their CD at: www.mosquitonet.com/~trudy/reviews.html.

• Trill Music's Recordings - here is another place to find Will, with his wife and partner Trudy and also sometimes Shonti Elder, a fine fiddler and person from Anchorage.

• Five Buck Fiddle is an old-timey band with a lot of character.

• Toyos - Andean music from Fairbanks. Stranger things have happened!

• Full time musicians Robin Dale Ford & Pat Fitzgerald are in a mix of bands and do solo and duo acts as well, notwithstanding their recording studio "10th Planet". The things some folks will do to make a living, yeah!

• Alex Clarke and Ann McBeth also are a wonderful musical duo.

• Greg Pacetti and Marcia Trainor also are a musical couple. The two wives are joined at the hip or brain at least, also with a couple of other very talented ladies Vicki Andrews and Nikki Eiseman as Trina and the Triceratops. Their husbands are also musicians, but they shun the spotlight (sshhh).

• The Rosie Creek Stringband doesn't play much of late, but worth hearing when they do play, espousing the old time string band tradition in Interior Alaska. Band members include: Gary Fitch - fiddle, guitar, Rich Flanders - guitar, bass, Gretchen Kerndt- banjo-uke, Mike Emers - fiddle (contact phone 479-3642), and occasionally Kate Bull - banjo.

• Lou Nathanson - the Genetically Enhanced singer-songwriter is the first volunteer on this list. It helps to have a very broad sense of humour. He does.

• Mike Campbell - Singer/Songwriter/Guy With Long Arms
  Does he play a Pete Seeger extra-looong 5 string banjo? Check his site out and find out!

• Robin Hopper - folksinger/songwriter out of Chugiak and a really nice person too!

• Ungroup, from Anchorage with an electic mix of musical styles presents family music for the dysfunctional family.

• Tom Begich - singer-songwriter from Anchorage with three CDs, and a sound that ranges from blues to folk, and covering most points in between. Email cwrecord@alaska.net.

  Esther Golton is an example of the fine musicians living in Talkeetna.

• Morgan Morgan's Blues Homepage keeps up with the Anchorage area blues scene. The website seems to have gone away.

• Libby Roderick, folksinger extraordinaire.

• McLeod's "Fine Alaskan Bluegrass Music" band page - claiming to be the oldest bluegrass band in Alaska, they expound a mix of old and new tunes, guaranteed to liven up any party, coffeehouse, festival, special event, or Bar-B-Que!

• Fat Weasel has been playing in Anchorage and around the State for a few years now. Steve Montooth, guitar; Jason Bent, fiddle; Brian DeMarcus, banjo-bass-caller-clogger; Aileen McInnis, bass; Christy Williams, vocals and banjo-uke. They play hard driving Appalachian Old Time String Band Music, primarily for square dances and concerts. Contact Steve via email at: stevensm@alaska.net or 272-1738.

• Rick Brooks is a guitarist that has been playing over 15 years, in a wide variety of styles and opening for top name acts in Alaska.

• Don Morrel has an interesting history of songwriting as well as a recording studio in Anchorage.

• Talkeetna has their Whole Wheat Radio website at www.talkeetna-alaska.com, which has listed Denali Cooks, Larry Zarella, Esther Golton, Maximum Jones, Jonathan 'Slick' Durr, and Catgut & Carnegie. For the size of the town, they have lots of music going on.

• The Spur Highway Spankers, based on the Kenai Peninsula, perform anywhere in the state throughout the state, playing a mixture of original and traditional bluegrass songs. They've done up a nice website, IMHO.

• The Spit City Slickers from Homer - Southern old-time country music. Scott Meyer, Kate Meyer, Ray Garrity, Willy Dunne. Scott also plays with the Improbabillies. Contact Scott via email or at 235-8729.

• Ray-Jen Cajun Band also from Homer - Traditional and modern Louisiana Cajun and zydeco dance music. Ray Garrity, Jennifer King, Mike Patch, Jeff Szarzi, Scott Meyer. Call Jennifer at 235-4250.