Run of the Mill String Band

Philadelphia's Run of the Mill String Band is an old-time southern Appalachian string band preserving and performing some of the best traditional American music you can find. Fiddle, banjo, guitar and upright bass comprise the usual configuration of the band, but sometimes they mix it up with two fiddles, fretless banjo, mandolin, banjo-mandolin, steel-guitar, banjo-guitar, and archtop guitar. They sing some, too.

Regardless of configuration, they strive to maintain the tradition of the music, while at the same time, making it their own. The Run of the Mill String Band is Palmer Loux, Greg Loux, Paul Sidlick and Tom Schaffer. They've been together for well over twenty years and an important part of the greater Philadelphia old-time music scene. They perform in concert, play for square dances, contra dances, parties, weddings?just about any type of event where up-beat, energetic acoustic music is in order.