The Flatland Ramblers
photo by d.j.
The Flatland Ramblers, a traditional old-time band based in Polk County, Iowa, play a lively mix of American mountain tunes and Celtic instrumentals. If you like music of the 1800s as it was played in 1975, you'll love this band! Funky enough for a barn dance, hip enough for the coffeehouse, we play 19th century music for the 21st century. Perfect for farmer's markets, Civil War reenactments, Renaissance fairs, céilís, keggers, political rallies, weddings, wakes, hog roasts, hoolies, hoedowns, shindigs and shivarees! The band consists of:

HARVEST_HOME.mp3
Harvest Home
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Scott Ross: 5-string banjo, cittern, bodhran

Jeanne Witt: flute, piccolo, pennywhistle, mandolin

Barbara Shultz: mandolin, octave mandolin, tenor banjo

Donna Ritchie: guitar, Jew's harp

THE FLATLAND RAMBLERS: Toe-Tappin' Tunes


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Garry Owen
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HILLS_OF_IRELAND.mp3

Hills of Ireland
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...and keep posted on our ever-changing schedule:
The Flatland Ramblers
2012 Iowa Performance Calendar:

Wednesday, March 14- Traditional Celtic Music, 1:00 P.M. - 2:00 P.M.
(T.B.A.)
(Hoyt Sherman Place, 1501 Woodland Avenue, Des Moines.)

Saturday, March 17- St. Patrick's Day Dinner, 5:30 P.M. - 6:30 P.M.
(Private.)
(Illahee Hills Retirement Community, 8308 Colby Parkway, Urbandale.)

Saturday, March 17- House Concert, 8:00 P.M. - 9:30 P.M.
(Private.)

Tuesday, May 15- Traditional Celtic & American Tunes, 7:00 P.M. - 8:00 P.M.
(Private.)
(Edgewater, 9225 Cascade Avenue, West Des Moines.)

Sunday, July 1- Birthday Bash, 2:00 P.M.- ? P.M.
(Private.)
(Des Moines.)

Sunday, September 16- 42nd Annual Fiddler's Picnic, Noon - 6:00 P.M.
($5 admission.)
(Johnson County Fairgrounds, Iowa City.)


The Flatland Ramblers will play music in exchange for money:
Contact us here.
Or phone: 515-277-3787

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