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Rural Delivery is the name of a bluegrass, Americana and hillbilly jazz band in Fairbanks, Alaska. Members include Ben Bragonier on mandolin, Suzanne Graves on guitar, Tye Menser on banjo, Jeff Siniscalchi on harmonica and mandolin, and Ken Brown on bass. The band started in late 2004 and played its last gig in late April 2007. The band released its first and last CD in late April 2007. During its short lifespan, Rural Delivery played at a number of public events, including the Anchorage Folk Fest, the Fairbanks Winter Folk Fest, the Fairbanks Summer Folk Fest, and the Anderson Bluegrass Festival.
Graves, Brown, Siniscalchi and Jim Vogt perform original songs as The Porch Dogs. Bragonier will join the Porch Dogs on mandolin, along with TJ O'Donnell on clawhammer banjo, for a House Concert at Whole Wheat Radio in Talkeetna, Alaska on May 24, 2008. Tye Menser now plays banjo and sings with the Oly Mountain Boys in Olympia, WA. In 2014 the Porch Dogs played shows at the Florida State Fair.
Rural Delivery refers to these topics:
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Mail Service:
- Rural delivery service - mail delivery in the countyside of the United States
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Musical groups:
- Rural Delivery (band) a Bluegrass band in Fairbanks, Alaska, 2004–2007
Usage examples of "rural delivery".
This farmhouse, several miles northwest of Romeo on an unnumbered gravel road, had a battered old rural delivery mailbox out front with the name Gait on it, but gave the impression of having been deserted for at least a few years.
There was a rural delivery mailbox on a wooden post by the road, with stone gate-pillars behind it and the usual narrow winding blacktop road going in among the trees.
Bruce watched the rural delivery agent stop at his letterbox from the hill above the house and decided that it was time for morning smoko.
Got four rural delivery routes out of this office-but nary a Driscoll on any of 'em.
There was no rural delivery route on the tobacco road, and he did not have a mail box.
Yet I had come in the degenerate day of trolley, bicycle and rural delivery, when communication was easy between the scattered mountain villages, and the bigger towns in the valleys, such as Bettsbridge and Shadd's Falls, had libraries, theatres and Y.