Band Bios
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Scott Scholten
Drums
Scott began his drumming career while touring with a national
reggae band that lost their drummer while on tour and asked
Scott to step in. He is a hard-hitting mean drumming machine
that has been with the Playboyz since 2001.
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Jack
Fiddle, Vocals
Bio coming soon.
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Ron Harrison
Bass
Bio coming soon.
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Kirk Jones
Button Accordion, Triple Note Accordion, Fiddle, and Vocals
Kirk took up the single row accordion in 2000 and has since picked up on
triple note accordion, and most recently, fiddle. He has studied with
Cory Ledet, Joe Hall, Jeffery Broussard, Dirk Powell, and Dexter Ardoin
at the Augusta Music Heritage
program in Elkins, Virginia and the Dewey
Balfa camp in Louisiana.
His heros include Boozoo Chavis, John Delafose, Octa Clark, and Canray Fontenot.
In his spare time, he is a bee master at
Sleeping Bear Farms.
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Chris
Guitar, Vocals
Bio coming soon.
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Mark Stoltz
Rubboard and Cajun/Zydeco Dance Instructor
Enthusiasm is Mark's greatest assest. He has traveled the country
ceaselessly in search of good Louisiana dance music. He has studied
for quite a few years with Mona Wilson,
among others, and now teaches dance at our gigs and plays rubboard.
He is fondly known in these parts as "big dog".
Festivals we have played at
- Wheatland Spring Dance Camp & the fall Wheatland Music Festival
- Blissfest in Cross Village
- Farmfest in beautiful northern Michigan
- Grand Marais music festival in August....say "ya' to the U.P., eh?
- Noreastr' Music Festival in Mio, Michigan