The Columbia County Sheiks

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"Permutations of Red Pine"


September 2026



A Red Pine tree was planted at the corner of 212 Merry Street in the late 60s that evolved over the decades into a cooperative household. We are making it a place for comity and creativity; Clarity and the imagination; we change detritus of early 21st century late stage capitalism into art, shrine, paintings, music, sculptures, urban Permaculture and homesteading experiments. We appreciate the used, the worn out, ever crumbling and reassembling; as we all are all the time.
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Friday, May 4, 2007

The Columbia County Sheiks are John Fabke (guitar, banjo, mandolin) and Brian O' Donnell (fiddle, guitar).Their repertoire draws on the blues-based string band music from the 1920s and ‘30s that was recorded by artists such as the Mississippi Sheiks, Doc Roberts, Jim and Andrew Baxter, Peg Leg Howell, Fiddlin' Arthur Smith, Memphis Jug Band, Burnett & Rutherford and others. This unique and entertaining music covers a wide variety of styles from blues to rags to pop music and bluesy, fiddle-driven country breakdowns.The Columbia County Sheiks feature the traditional fiddle playing of Madison, Wisconsin based Brian O'Donnell. Brian can also be heard playing cajun music with the Cajun Strangers and bluegrass with the Lonesome Rogues.

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