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The Even Dozen Jug Band was founded in 1963 by Stefan Grossman
Stefan Grossman

Stefan Grossman is an American guitarist, teacher and businessman.Born in Brooklyn, New York, he began playing guitar at the age of nine, when his father bought him a Harmony f-hole acoustic guitar....
 (solo country blues and ragtime guitarist) and Peter Siegel (old-timey guitarist and producer) in New York
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
. Other members were David Grisman
David Grisman

David Grisman is a Bluegrass music/Progressive bluegrass mandolinist and composer of acoustic music. In the early 1990s, he started the Acoustic Disc record label in an effort to preserve and spread acoustic or instrumental music....
 (noted bluegrass
Bluegrass music

Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music, and is a sub-genre of country music. It has its own roots in Folk music of Ireland, Music of Scotland, Music of Wales and Folk Music of England traditional music....
/newgrass
Progressive bluegrass

Progressive bluegrass is one of two major subgenres of bluegrass music. It is also known as newgrass, a term attributed to New Grass Revival member Ebo Walker)....
 mandolin
Mandolin

A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It is descended from the Mandora, a soprano member of the lute family. It has a body with a teardrop-shaped soundboard, or one which is essentially oval in shape, with a soundhole, or soundholes, of varying shapes which are open and are not decorated with an intricately carved grille lik...
ist), Steve Katz
Steve Katz

Steve Katz is a guitarist and record producer who is best known as a member of the rock group Blood, Sweat & Tears. Katz was an original member of the rock bands Blues Project and American Flyer ....
 (later with Blood, Sweat and Tears and Blues Project
Blues Project

The Blues Project was a short-lived band from the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City that was formed in 1965 and split up in 1967. While their songs drew from a wide array of musical styles, they are most remembered as one of the earliest practitioners of psychedelic rock, as well as one of the world's first jam bands, along with...
), Maria Muldaur
Maria Muldaur

Maria Muldaur is a roots-folk music and blues singer best known for her song "Midnight at the Oasis"....
 (then Maria d'Amato), Joshua Rifkin
Joshua Rifkin

Joshua Rifkin is an American Conducting, Keyboard instrument player, and Musicology. He is best known by the general public for having played a central role in the ragtime revival in the 1970s with the three albums he recorded of Scott Joplin's works for Nonesuch Records....
 (arranger of Scott Joplin
Scott Joplin

Scott Joplin was an United States musician and composer of ragtime music. He remains the best-known ragtime figure and is regarded as one of the three most important composers of Classic Rag, along with James Scott and Joseph Lamb....
 Ragtime
Ragtime

Ragtime is an originally American musical genre which enjoyed its peak popularity between 1897 and 1918. Ragtime was the first truly American musical genre, predating jazz....
s), and John Sebastian
John Sebastian

John Sebastian is an United States songwriter and harmonica player. He is best known as a founder of The Lovin' Spoonful, a band inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000....
 (later with the Lovin' Spoonful and now a solo artist).

The Even Dozen Jug Band did exist only for a short time.






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The Even Dozen Jug Band was founded in 1963 by Stefan Grossman
Stefan Grossman

Stefan Grossman is an American guitarist, teacher and businessman.Born in Brooklyn, New York, he began playing guitar at the age of nine, when his father bought him a Harmony f-hole acoustic guitar....
 (solo country blues and ragtime guitarist) and Peter Siegel (old-timey guitarist and producer) in New York
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
. Other members were David Grisman
David Grisman

David Grisman is a Bluegrass music/Progressive bluegrass mandolinist and composer of acoustic music. In the early 1990s, he started the Acoustic Disc record label in an effort to preserve and spread acoustic or instrumental music....
 (noted bluegrass
Bluegrass music

Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music, and is a sub-genre of country music. It has its own roots in Folk music of Ireland, Music of Scotland, Music of Wales and Folk Music of England traditional music....
/newgrass
Progressive bluegrass

Progressive bluegrass is one of two major subgenres of bluegrass music. It is also known as newgrass, a term attributed to New Grass Revival member Ebo Walker)....
 mandolin
Mandolin

A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It is descended from the Mandora, a soprano member of the lute family. It has a body with a teardrop-shaped soundboard, or one which is essentially oval in shape, with a soundhole, or soundholes, of varying shapes which are open and are not decorated with an intricately carved grille lik...
ist), Steve Katz
Steve Katz

Steve Katz is a guitarist and record producer who is best known as a member of the rock group Blood, Sweat & Tears. Katz was an original member of the rock bands Blues Project and American Flyer ....
 (later with Blood, Sweat and Tears and Blues Project
Blues Project

The Blues Project was a short-lived band from the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City that was formed in 1965 and split up in 1967. While their songs drew from a wide array of musical styles, they are most remembered as one of the earliest practitioners of psychedelic rock, as well as one of the world's first jam bands, along with...
), Maria Muldaur
Maria Muldaur

Maria Muldaur is a roots-folk music and blues singer best known for her song "Midnight at the Oasis"....
 (then Maria d'Amato), Joshua Rifkin
Joshua Rifkin

Joshua Rifkin is an American Conducting, Keyboard instrument player, and Musicology. He is best known by the general public for having played a central role in the ragtime revival in the 1970s with the three albums he recorded of Scott Joplin's works for Nonesuch Records....
 (arranger of Scott Joplin
Scott Joplin

Scott Joplin was an United States musician and composer of ragtime music. He remains the best-known ragtime figure and is regarded as one of the three most important composers of Classic Rag, along with James Scott and Joseph Lamb....
 Ragtime
Ragtime

Ragtime is an originally American musical genre which enjoyed its peak popularity between 1897 and 1918. Ragtime was the first truly American musical genre, predating jazz....
s), and John Sebastian
John Sebastian

John Sebastian is an United States songwriter and harmonica player. He is best known as a founder of The Lovin' Spoonful, a band inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000....
 (later with the Lovin' Spoonful and now a solo artist).

The Even Dozen Jug Band did exist only for a short time. In January 1964 their only recording The Even Dozen Jug Band was issued on the Elektra
Elektra Records

Elektra Records is a now-dormant United States record label owned by Warner Music Group. In 2004, it was consolidated into WMG's Atlantic Records Group....
 label. They made a couple of television appearances and performed several times in concert, twice at New York's Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City located at 881 Seventh Avenue , occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street , two blocks south of Central Park....
.

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