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| Upcoming Schedule May 31, Friday @ 6:30p Federal Womens Correctional Institution, Dublin 5708 8th Street, Camp Parks Dublin, CA 94568 contact - Chaplain Ashforth 925-833-7500 ex 385 June 16, Sunday @ 5:00p Deuel Vocational State Prison Mainliners' Service 23500 Kasson Road, Tracy contact - Chaplain Ruffin 209-835-4141 July 14, Sunday @ 8:00p Milk Bar - Bluegrass and Beyond 1840 Haight Street San Francisco, CA 94 contact - Davis IL 415-387-6455 FREE September 20, Friday @ 7:15p Peninsula Bible Church Recovery and Renewal Service 3505 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto contact - Andy Burnham 650-494-3840 |
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| Rich Ferguson's Good Old Gospel Bluegrass Band |
| Christian ministry to prisoners, their families, and their victims throughout the world |
| Max and Rachel Butler's Honky-Tonking Gospel Band |
| Creekside Community Church |
| "A safe place to hear a dangerous message", our church home in San Leandro |
| Folk Music Festival on the Beautiful Oregon Coast |
| Campus Crusade's ministry and service to our military and their families |
| An association of the families of our country's military |
| Blue Star Moms |
| Christmas Reviews |
| On-line reviewer and promoter of all kinds of Christmas amusic |
| An on-line reviewer of Americana music from the Netherlands |
| Joni Eareckson's Christian ministry to the disabled |
| Our other home church in Oakland, seeking to glorify God's name, through God's people, locally and globally |
| The Fret Not Old-Time Gospel Band |
| Favorite Links |
| Band Members |
| Spiro Tsingaris fiddle vocal Danny Angell snare Rachel Butler vocal Greg V. Arthur mando vocal Max Butler lead guitar vocal Rich Ferguson banjo dobro vocal Reed Sutton bass Lori Arthur guitar lead vocal |
| All monetary procedes from the sale of CDs are returned to charities -- primarily to the prison ministry at Dueul Vocational Institution in Tracy to buy Bibles, anger management workbooks, audio-visual equipment, and whatever else the prison chaplain.requests. |
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| A great festival hosted in numerous excellent venues over 8 days in February |
| San Francisco Free Folk Festival Two days of free music |
Old-Time Gospel Band
We play, what could be called
Americana gospel, the old-time roots
music from the traditions of the black
and white rural American churches. It's
the "farmer formal" sacred songs from
the Emancipation to the Depression, as
well as some of our own. It's the music
of our grandfathers and great-grand-
fathers, when they were fiery and
young, and had to endure their hardships
trusting only in Jesus. It's the songs of
the old saints who were well acquainted
with suffering, for some were in chains,
or at the Freedmans Bureau, or in
company towns on failing farms, or at
the graveside. It's a uniquely American
expression of the cross and shed blood,
of sin and salvation, of grace and mercy,
and of repentance and forgiveness. It's
the music for time of trouble, when
nothing but the unadorned full gospel of
Jesus will do. And it's steely-eyed
encouragement by the old songwriters in
the power of the Holy Ghost to keep
walking on out in Jesus name, to keep
leaning on the everlasting arms, to finally
lay your burdens down.
We have been at it together since 1994
performing 12-24 times per year. We've
never sought music industry success but
rather fulled up our dance card with
prison gigs, rescue missions, funerals,
church services, and benefit concerts for
groups doing good like the Blue Star
Moms. We're self-produced five CDs.
We return all band proceeds to charity,
primarily into prison ministries. As our
most noteworthy accomplishment, the
prison chaplain once said we were "the
inmates' favorite band inside San
Quentin". A great complement for us
and for old-time roots gospel, in our
estimation. Nevertheless, it is our
prayer, when it is all said and done,
when we have all gone on to our reward
like our fathers before us, that we were
somehow out of the way of the songs
themselves so that the only gospel there
is, the old-time full gospel of Jesus, was
clearly heard.
May the One who has overcome this
mean old world, the Lord and Savior of
sinners like us, be glorified in all of you.
Americana gospel, the old-time roots
music from the traditions of the black
and white rural American churches. It's
the "farmer formal" sacred songs from
the Emancipation to the Depression, as
well as some of our own. It's the music
of our grandfathers and great-grand-
fathers, when they were fiery and
young, and had to endure their hardships
trusting only in Jesus. It's the songs of
the old saints who were well acquainted
with suffering, for some were in chains,
or at the Freedmans Bureau, or in
company towns on failing farms, or at
the graveside. It's a uniquely American
expression of the cross and shed blood,
of sin and salvation, of grace and mercy,
and of repentance and forgiveness. It's
the music for time of trouble, when
nothing but the unadorned full gospel of
Jesus will do. And it's steely-eyed
encouragement by the old songwriters in
the power of the Holy Ghost to keep
walking on out in Jesus name, to keep
leaning on the everlasting arms, to finally
lay your burdens down.
We have been at it together since 1994
performing 12-24 times per year. We've
never sought music industry success but
rather fulled up our dance card with
prison gigs, rescue missions, funerals,
church services, and benefit concerts for
groups doing good like the Blue Star
Moms. We're self-produced five CDs.
We return all band proceeds to charity,
primarily into prison ministries. As our
most noteworthy accomplishment, the
prison chaplain once said we were "the
inmates' favorite band inside San
Quentin". A great complement for us
and for old-time roots gospel, in our
estimation. Nevertheless, it is our
prayer, when it is all said and done,
when we have all gone on to our reward
like our fathers before us, that we were
somehow out of the way of the songs
themselves so that the only gospel there
is, the old-time full gospel of Jesus, was
clearly heard.
May the One who has overcome this
mean old world, the Lord and Savior of
sinners like us, be glorified in all of you.
| Available CDs "Gloryland" may be purchased at CD Baby and iTunes. "Hundredfold" and "Mary Had a Baby" may be purchased by e-mailing us. |