Uncle Zesty's Old Time Bootknockers

It was a special night at the Abbey Pub this past tuesday for the Henhouse Prowlers show. The night began with a short bluegrass set performed by Lake County natives Uncle Zesty's Old Time Bootknockers. Their show was pretty fun and consisted of a male female singing partnership. The Bootknockers played maybe a 40 minute set before breaking to meet the crowd. I particularly enjoyed the woman because she has a nice voice and plays the same instruments as I do including the guitar, harmonica, and Kazoo so I found her especially interesting. The Bootknockers then passed out free stickers and provided an emailing list. The second half of the night brought on the Abbey Pub resident bluegrass band the Henhouse Prowlers who performed a very intimate set to mark the final show of their mandolin player Grant Ziolkowski as he intends to move on to play with another group, but I cannot remember their name. With it being Grant's last show and the quaint size of the crowd the Prowlers took requests for a couple songs and at the closing of the night unplugged and brought their instruments down on the dance floor where the crowd and I were able to circle around and really enjoyed the treat. When the musicians unplugged and came down on the floor to perform their final 2 songs with mandolin player they played Syracuse and I can't remember the other song they played, but it was really awesome. Unfortunetly none of the members from Uncle Zesty's Old Time Bootknockers ever joined up with the prowlers on stage to play a song together. I was kind of hoping for that, but oh well it was still a great night with 2 really good bluegrass bands.