Mustang Sally & The Hamjos

Mustang Sally & The Hamjos - A Band of Champions

Six Musicians - Two State Champion Performers

Every band likes to promote itself as having 'winning' musicians, but the central Florida Old-time music band, "Mustang Sally & the Hamjos" can truly call theirs 'A Band of Champions.'

Their leader, 'Mustang Sally' Anderson, has been playing hammered dulcimer for years, and has earned the Old-Time Hammered Dulcimer Champion title for four years, the last time at the 2008 Florida Old-Time Championship competition in Dade City. Well regarded both as a solo performer as well as a Hamjo musician, she has a jest and energy for relating with the public as well as offering many styles of music played on her Lee Spears Hammered Dulcimer. Besides performing with "Mustang Sally & The Hamjos," she also performs with the Hammerhead Dulcimer Society of Tampa Bay.

While participating at the annual Florida Folk Festival in May, 2009, another band member, Ron Smith, demonstrated his excellent old-time, clawhammer banjo technique and became the 2009 Florida State Old-Time Banjo Championship up at the Stephan Foster Cultural Folk Center and Park in White Springs. Florida Banjo Society's Chuck Levy awarded Ron the top prize of a Gold Tone Bob Carlin Model Banjo, which is produced in Titusville, Florida.

"Mustang Sally & The Hamjos," is composed of Sally Anderson on the Hammered Dulcimer, Pat Kochenburger on vocals and wash-tub bass, Donny Lomnick on rhythm Guitar and Percussion, Dale Johnson on Guitar and Mandolin, Dick Prince on Fiddle, Clawhammer Banjo and Guitar, and Ron Smith on Melodic Clawhammer Banjo and Vocals.

The Hamjos perform at festivals and private events throughout the state. They will be featured in concert at Lake Wales' Historic Bok Tower Gardens for their Summer Music Series Live At the Gardens on September 11, 2009. If you would like to get a sample of The Hamjos music, their CD titled:Mustang Sally & The Hamjos, is available both through CDBaby , or by sending a request to their email address: thehamjos@aol.com .

***"Mustang Sally & The Hamjos" was the featured band for the Live Channel 96 Pinellas Folk Lure program, which aired three times a week for the month of May, 2007.The band was also featured on the Pinellas Channel 18 Folk Music Program which was recorded live at the Pinellas County Folk Festival, January 2007. The Hamjos' CD was also used as the soundtrack for the PGTV documentary, "Alafia River Rendezvous."

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