BLUEGRASS with a heapin' helpin' of gospel and wild mountain
tunes, with a dollop of country, old-time, western, and a dab of
the blues for good measure.
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The Panhandle Polecats have been raising a ruckus around the Inland
Northwest with their traditional bluegrass for the last several years. They hail
from the North Idaho panhandle where they were raised in their little mountain
home on the Rathdrum prairie. This band is made up of five siblings who love to
play music almost as much as they love to fight with each other. The band
consists of Jenny Little - laying down a solid rhythm on the doghouse bass; Hank
Little - the bluesman - on Dobro and harmonica; Molly Little on mandolin; and
twins Austin (banjo) and Bonnie (guitar). All the Polecats sing at one time or
another with Jenny and Molly handling most of the lead vocals. Now in their
fourth year as the Panhandle Polecats, this family unit has been helping
audiences all across the Inland northwest grin and tap their toes to good-natured,
high energy music and doing their best to educate the world on what a Polecat
really does sound like.