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, Michelle Lambert on fiddle and vocals, Alice Malone on fiddle, Maggie McKay on banjo, Bob Sevigny on guitar, and Andy Sicard on upright bass.  Promoters – Please click here to download a picture of the band.

Our Massachusetts-based bluegrass 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 at a grocery store!

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

This summer, the band was cast as the on-screen band for the motion picture production “Furry Vengenace.”  This family comedy was filmed in Topsfield, MA and will star Brendan Fraser, Brooke Shields and Ken Jeong.  Look for us on the big screen in the spring of 2010!

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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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Michelle Lambert

is a fiddler, clogdancer, singer and songwriter who hails from the Round Valley of Northern California. Michelle comes from a musical family and has played the fiddle and sung for most of her life. She has performed for tourists on California Western Railroad’s “Skunk” train and was a member of the fabled “Round Valley Hog Callers” bluegrass band.

Despite Michelle’s affinity for skunk trains and hog calls, she is a formidable musician and currently studies at the Berklee College of Music in Boston.

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Alice Malone

is originally from the San Francisco Bay Area and has studied violin since the age of six. 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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Maggie MacKay

is the band’s token Canadian and part-time banjoist. She is currently enrolled at Berklee College of Music where she is studying the banjo, songwriting and music business. She is currently working on an album of original bluegrass songs, which features the fiddling of Ron Stewart.

When Maggie is not playing music she can be found tipping cows, spray painting and causing other general sorts of mischief.

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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, oldtime 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 pleased to officially endorse Innovation Strings and recommend them to other musicians!Fretwell Bass & Acoustic Instruments is the distributor for Innovation Strings here in the USA and Canada.

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 see The Goodtime Charlies bluegrass jam as featured in the June 30th 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.