RH,
I went looking and found the answer, “The Duhks’ band name comes from banjo player Leonard Podolak’s former band, Scruj MacDuhk—a tribute to a Scottish warrior who faught alongside William Wallace.”
REALLY???!!! Now, I feel a familiar April pull on my right leg as I read that reply. Are you sure banjo player Leonard Podolak didn’t once play in a small group called “The Beagle Boys”?????
“Scruj MacDuhk was a Juno-nominated folk band that included singer-songwriter Ruth Moody, a current member of the Wailin’ Jennys, as lead singer. The band released two albums, “Live at the Westend Cultural Centre” in 1997 and The Road to Canso, in 1999, and finally broke up in 2001.
Career
The group started as a Celtic oriented band one crazy night in the kitchen of Winnipeg Folk Festival founder Mitch Podolak. The band was three people. Leonard Podolak on great banjo and horrible fiddle, Dan Baisley on Steel Drum and pipes and Jeff Butler of Figgy Duff fame on button accordion. From the first note the music was infectious and within a few days they had their first booking.
Like all bands they mutated both musically and personally and within a two year period went through about 15 players before settling on a Leonard Podolak on Banjo, Ruth Moody as the voice, Jeremy Penner on fiddle, Oliver Swain on stand up bass and comedy and Christian (Coco) Dugas as the percussionist. They released their first album, Live at The West End within the first year and then this collective won a Western Canadian Music Award for their second CD, The Road to Canso.”
Another new one, and I love them. I think I mentioned in a earlier post that I used to attend the Philly Folk Festival in the 70’s, I just did a search on who was playing and people like John Prine, Steve Goodman, Croce, and many others were playing. I was a bad girl; I used to go with about 4 friends, and we would each tell our parents we were spending the weekend at the other persons’s house. Then we would hitchhike to Philadelphia for an outdoor folk festival, with no tent, or things one would need. People were kind and let us share when one night it began to rain. We were caught at the bus stop, by the police, because we didn’t know they had a curfew. He let us be– he didn’t know we had that Marijuana stuff with us, and the story ended happily.
Going to see if I can find the Duhks on You Tube.
Waving,
Lori
Lori,
I have liked The Duhks a long time and realized I hadn’t played them since the old blog. It is always my pleasure to introduce you to another new group though it’s getting more difficult given how many you have seen!
keepthecoffeecoming.blog 
April 4, 2011 at 1:45 pm
yousendit link:
https://rcpt.yousendit.com/1086503741/7f3745b93eb2babc007a202d373e65e9
April 4, 2011 at 3:44 pm
“Duhks”, eh? I like their relaxed sound. But where’d they get that name? (at least the spelling)
April 4, 2011 at 11:59 pm
RH,
I went looking and found the answer, “The Duhks’ band name comes from banjo player Leonard Podolak’s former band, Scruj MacDuhk—a tribute to a Scottish warrior who faught alongside William Wallace.”
April 5, 2011 at 4:32 pm
REALLY???!!! Now, I feel a familiar April pull on my right leg as I read that reply. Are you sure banjo player Leonard Podolak didn’t once play in a small group called “The Beagle Boys”?????
April 5, 2011 at 5:30 pm
RH,
No April fool’s pull here:
“Scruj MacDuhk was a Juno-nominated folk band that included singer-songwriter Ruth Moody, a current member of the Wailin’ Jennys, as lead singer. The band released two albums, “Live at the Westend Cultural Centre” in 1997 and The Road to Canso, in 1999, and finally broke up in 2001.
Career
The group started as a Celtic oriented band one crazy night in the kitchen of Winnipeg Folk Festival founder Mitch Podolak. The band was three people. Leonard Podolak on great banjo and horrible fiddle, Dan Baisley on Steel Drum and pipes and Jeff Butler of Figgy Duff fame on button accordion. From the first note the music was infectious and within a few days they had their first booking.
Like all bands they mutated both musically and personally and within a two year period went through about 15 players before settling on a Leonard Podolak on Banjo, Ruth Moody as the voice, Jeremy Penner on fiddle, Oliver Swain on stand up bass and comedy and Christian (Coco) Dugas as the percussionist. They released their first album, Live at The West End within the first year and then this collective won a Western Canadian Music Award for their second CD, The Road to Canso.”
April 5, 2011 at 11:32 pm
Another new one, and I love them. I think I mentioned in a earlier post that I used to attend the Philly Folk Festival in the 70’s, I just did a search on who was playing and people like John Prine, Steve Goodman, Croce, and many others were playing. I was a bad girl; I used to go with about 4 friends, and we would each tell our parents we were spending the weekend at the other persons’s house. Then we would hitchhike to Philadelphia for an outdoor folk festival, with no tent, or things one would need. People were kind and let us share when one night it began to rain. We were caught at the bus stop, by the police, because we didn’t know they had a curfew. He let us be– he didn’t know we had that Marijuana stuff with us, and the story ended happily.
Going to see if I can find the Duhks on You Tube.
Waving,
Lori
April 6, 2011 at 6:10 pm
Lori,
I have liked The Duhks a long time and realized I hadn’t played them since the old blog. It is always my pleasure to introduce you to another new group though it’s getting more difficult given how many you have seen!
You were darn lucky!
April 7, 2011 at 12:21 am
I did find them on You Tube, and posted it I believe. Yes I was lucky…I am already a Keep the Coffee addict and now I am becoming a You Tube addict.
April 7, 2011 at 10:24 am
Lori,
Some addictions are perfectly fine. Youtube is a wealth of just about anything you want to see. I love it for that!