Boo Mullarky
Mickey's Tavern 1524 Williamson St., Madison, Wisconsin 53703
Free (on the patio).
media release: Boo Mullarky is Madison, Wisconsin's amazing one-human jug band medicine show, featuring Boo pumping out deep ragtime blues and Cajun tunes on a unique ensemble of old car horns, bells, a half guitar/half bass...guitar, kazoo, an old suitcase for a drum, and a tambourine...all at once! Steeped in the steam of the Gulf Coast marshes, Boo grew up on both sides of the Sabine River, dividing his early world between the lonesome cattle calls of Texas and the high-spirited mournful Cajun wail of Southwestern Louisiana. And he quickly took to the music that filled his ears, as Boo grew up in a household rife with the hand-me-down folk music tradition. Grandson to a Cajun fiddler, nephew to the Hackberry Ramblers' original dobro player, and cousin to Cajun hit maker Leroy Broussard, his grandparents' house stood as a stopover for many of the popular traveling Cajun bands.