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The Maybelles NYC 2024

Superfine

The Maybelles kick off 2024 at Superfine's World Famous Bluegrass Green Chile Brunch Noon til 3pm. Tina Lama on upright bass; Philippa Thompson on fiddle, mandolin, washboard, spoons, And THE SAW! Jan Bell on guitar, banjo and harmonica. MC Extraordinaire Tanya Rynd.

Hoosier Original Music Fundraiser

Sleepers

Fundraiser event for Hoosier original Music - A new Non profit organization whose mission is to maintain, protect, and improve the quality, community value, venue availability, and operational support of original music in Indiana; • to educate community members and the public about the original music community and musicians in Indiana; • to provide a framework for education on music business related matters and opportunities for performance for members of the original music community in Indiana.

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(Above) Hi Fi Indy Opening for Sierra Ferrell / John Platt's On Yiuyr Radar at Rockwood Music Hall NYC with Rima Fand and Tina Lama / Americana Fest with Megan Palmer at Dee's, Nashville TN.

(Above) Sunny's Brooklyn NY with Hilary Hawke & Tina Lama / Metamora Music Festival, IN / 

(Below) Story Inn, IN / Brooklyn Bridge Park NYC / Jalopy Theatre, Brooklyn NYC with Pippa Thompson

 

 

Independent Music Awards, Lincoln Center

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Album Release Show at Barbes, Brooklyn NYC 2019.

From a coal-mining village in Yorkshire England, Jan Bell made her name as a songwriter in NYC. Over the last twenty years recording seven critically acclaimed albums made in New Orleans, Eureka Springs AR and Brooklyn NYC. Her band "The Maybelles” started out in The Ozarks as a duo with Melissa Carper. 

Along the way opening for Wanda Jackson, Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle, Odetta, and Ramblin’ Jack Elliott. Independent Music Award for Best Alt. Country album. Nominee Best Concept album ‘Dream of the Miner’s Child’. 

 

“Maybe growing up in Nottinghamshire is what sets Jan Bell apart from the run of local lady folkies. Or maybe its the slide guitars, harmonicas, mandolins and banjos. Dark, old timey spareness......gorgeous ” - Chuck Eddy, The Village Voice

 

“Bell's music isn't strictly bluegrass, but her reworking of old-time country and jug-band blues is remarkably nuanced. It embodies the wide-open spirit of what has become an antic, hybrid genre.” - Edd Hurt, The Nashville Scene