Artist Info: Big Betsy

This is something of a mid-town Memphis super group featuring members of Neighborhood Texture Jam, Think As Incas, The Five That Killed Elvis, and Compulsive Gamblers. They play once a year - on March 17th - at the St. Patrick's Day festival at Murphy's pub in Memphis. Rumor has it that these guys rock out their own big-guitar arrangements of traditional Irish music until the last band member standing falls out. The minimum beverage requirement for the band per performance is 40 pints of Guinness and a bottle of Tullamore Dew. [read more...]