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These two guys from Brooklyn have been playing traditional music for more than 30 years in New York City and beyond... songs and tunes, concerts and dances with an old time flavor and a repertoire that ranges from the US, to Canada, England, Sweden and the Shetland Islands..

Check out their new 2010 CD, PAUL & JODY

They were featured performers at the Broadstairs (UK) folk week in August 2009. Closer to home they play dances with
Squeezology 
including many of Jody’s original dance tunes. With guitarist Bob Jones they perform as
The Backyard Boys.
Songs:

The Wolf is at the Door (3.3 MB)

Fishing Blues (3.6 MB)

Fly Around my Pretty Little Miss (4.2 MB)

Tunes:

Haning’s Farewell (3.4 MB)

Texas (4 MB)

Lilies of the Valley (2.7 MB)
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Click below for mp3s of what these gentlemen are up to.
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Upcoming Performances


3/4 
Paul & Jody concert with the New York Packet, NYC, Sunday, March 4, 3:00 p.m. Traditional American songs and tunes featuring Paul Friedman - fiddle, and Jody Kruskal - Anglo concertina. John Street Methodist Church, 44 John Street between Nassau Street and William Street. $5 adults, $2 children. Subway to Fulton Street on the 2,3,4,5,A,C,J,Z.


3/25 
Backyard Boys in concert at Meadowlands Environmental Center NJ. Sunday, March 25, 1:00 p.m. American Roots music, with songs of the river and stream in a program called “The Water is Wide”. Paul Friedman, fiddle, Jody Kruskal, Anglo concertina and Bob Jones, guitar at Two DeKorte Park Plaza, Lyndhurst, NJ, 07071. Phone (201) 460-8300. $5.00 Members, $7.00  Non-members. This is a beautiful spot. Nature walks with a view of Manhattan on the the horizon.


5/5/
CDNY contra dance w/Squeezology
Paul Friedman, fiddle, Jody Kruskal, Anglo concertina, Bob Jones, guitar, Marnen Laibow-Koser-piano, caller: Richard Fischer at The Chinatown Y, 273 Bowery, New York, NY 10002

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