Prozac Mtn Boys, Happy Valley Sluggers: Traditional Cajun Dance Hall Music December 30, 2007

The Prozac Mtn. Boys offer an uplifting, therapeutic mixture of traditional, bluegrass and modern music. Composed of musicians from Washington State's northernmost counties, they combine bluegrass instrumentation with rich vocal harmonies to create a surprisingly familiar, intimate blend of yesterday and today. From Bill Monroe to Bob Dylan, from The Beatles to The Grateful Dead, no music is safe from The Prozac Mtn. Boys and features Andy Friedlander (guitar), Ted O'Connell (mandolin, harmonica), Larry Sult (banjo) and Keith Fredrikson (bass).

The Happy Valley Sluggers play the Cajun two-steps and waltzes which emanate from the dancehalls and roadhouses that dot the countryside of southwest Louisiana. The audience will find it hard to sit still while hearing the compelling back beat of the Cajun two-step. The group includes Mike Schway, Cajun accordion and fiddle; Laurel Bliss, fiddle; Nina Richardson, guitar; and Ginny Snowe, bass. Long-time fixtures in the Northwest folk scene, both individually and as a group, the Sluggers are much in demand for country dances and folk festivals throughout the region.