This site serves as World-wide headquarters for the Goodtime Stringband and hosts Andy Sicard’s reports on local traditional music happenings, musical projects and and other items of interest.

The Goodtime Stringband is comprised of Corrie Jones on mandolin and lead vocals,  Alice Malone on fiddle, Bob Sevigny on guitar, and Andy Sicard on upright bass.  Part-time members include Davina Yannetty on melodica/uke and Krissy Mendoca on guitar/mandolin.

Our bluegrass wedding band originally formed several years ago out of the friendships developed through local jams and festivals. Since coming together, The GTSB has performed at fundraisers, dozens of weddings, dances, company parties, outdoor festivals, parties, pubs and even in a major motion picture!

The group plays bluegrass, swing, honky tonk and danceable fiddle tunes by artists such as Hank Williams, Bob Wills, Johnny Cash, Flatt & Scruggs, Dolly Parton and Alison Krauss.

The Goodtime Stringband appears in the movie “Furry Vengenace.”  This family comedy was filmed in Topsfield, MA and stars Brendan Fraser, Brooke Shields and Ken Jeong.  The band appears onstage during the film’s climatic Forest Festival scene. After we perform for the Rocky Springs crowd, Neal Lyman (played by Ken Jeong)  is confronted by Dan Sanders (Brendan Fraser) about the harm his housing development project is doing to the environment and wildlife. So as not to give any more of the movie away, we will just say that mayhem ensues!

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Corrie Jones

(a preacher’s daughter) was raised on hymns and a capella spirituals in the church. Later, at about 12 years old, she started listening to and singing along with early Bonnie Raitt albums. Miss Jones is a recovering musical theater buff and for a time studied theater at NYU. It was during college that Corrie was lured into Alison Krauss’s bluegrass, and, subsequently, classic country music.

Co has an amazing shot glass collection from her childhood and can eat grapes and oranges like nobody’s business.

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Alice Malone

is originally from the San Francisco Bay Area and has studied violin since the age of five. Fine art studies at Brown University brought her to the East coast and ultimately the Greater-Boston area.

A stint as a National Park Ranger in the forests of California helped Alice develop chain-saw wielding skills that should make you nervous. Her baking skills are unrivaled in the old time musical community.

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Davina Yannetty

Davina Yannetty is a piano teacher and performing musician who grew up on the mean streets of East Boston. She began playing piano at age five and since then has gained proficiency on a host of other wacky instruments including melodica, ukulele, French horn and kazoo. She has studied at Berklee College of Music and has been performing professionally since the age of seventeen.

You can sometimes find Davina playing hilarious, comedic, original songs accompanied by Ferruccio (her acoustic-electric ukulele). She is also a member of the rock cover band The Workin’ Stiffs, a project which provides her with payment for singing “Love Shack” on a regular basis.

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Krissy Mendoca

Krissy Mendonca (pronounced Men-don-sah) is a guitarist and mandolin player from Massachusetts. She sings, writes songs and enjoys performing them for unsuspecting audiences. Krissy has played many different styles of music also plays guitar in an Irish fiddle & guitar duo.

Krissy has a suspiciously large collection of hats and has appeared in over 1,000 photo booth pictures.

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Bob Sevigny

is a Massachusetts native that has been playing guitar in numerous stringbands in the Northeast region over the past decade. A self taught musician that has played music for more than half of his life, he has become proficient at bluegrass, old time and swing rhythm guitar. Bob has played at many of New England’s notable music festivals and has shared the stage with the area’s finest musicians.

Bob has “dreamy” eyes and is probably the strongest guy that you know.

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Andy Sicard

is a multi-instrumentalist who has been performing with regional roots music and bluegrass bands for the past ten years. His most recent musical projects have included the critically acclaimed Amy Black & the Red Clay Rascals, The Goodtime Charlies and Hard Times bands.

Andy is a regionally respected upright/slap bassist and was the recipient of a 2007 New Hampshire State Council on the Arts grant for traditional arts studies in bluegrass music.  He has a “black belt” (tho not the karate kind),  and is a lover of domestic light beers.

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Here are some press clippings for your reading enjoyment!

Click here to read about the Goodtime Stringband’s participation in the filming of “Furry Vengeance.”  This article was published in the Lowell Sun in April 2010.

Click here to read about the Goodtime Stringband’s participation in the filming of “Furry Vengeance.”  This article was published on the “Bluegrass Blog” in April 2010.

Click here to see The Goodtime Charlies bluegrass jam as featured in the  Nashua Broadcaster

Click here to read an article about the Goodtime Charlies published in the Nashua Telegraph (August 2005)

Nashua Hippo Article “Home-grown hangouts: Cool music without the long drive”

Click here to read an article/interview Andy wrote about Mike Holmes and Banjo Camp North

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Please note, the Goodtime Stringband is available to perform in Braintree, Cambridge, Newton, Readville, Brookline Village, Medford, Randolph, Milton, Quincy, Wallaston, Watertown, West Medford, Weymouth, Arlington Heights, Holbrook, Melrose, Nonantum, North Quincy, Waverley, Dorchester, East Weymouth, Hyde Park, Mattapan, North Weymouth, Oakdale, South Weymouth, Waltham, Babson Park, Avon, Canton and many other locations in and around the Boston area.

Need bluegrass in New Hampshire? The Goodtime Stringband is available to perform in Manchester, Bedford, Merrimack, Auburn, Litchfield, Londonderry, Goffstown, Derry, Hooksett, Amherst, Chester, Candia, Hudson, Mont Vernon, Nashua, Windham, Milford, New Boston, Sandown, Bow, Concord, Hampstead, Hollis, Raymond, Suncook, Salem, Weare, Atkinson, Danville, East Candia, East Hampstead Deerfield, Candia, Epsom, Suncook, Hooksett, Northwood, Auburn, Raymond, Lochmere, Manchester, Nottingham, West Nottingham, Bow, Chester, East Candia, Pittsfield, Strafford, South Sutton, Winnisquam, Andover, Epping, Fremont, Laconia, Loudon, North Sutton, Center Strafford, Elkins, Goffstown, Sandown, South Newbury and many other locations in and around the Lakes Region.