"I couldn't get onto the dance floor at times as it was so packed!!" - Thank you so much for everything that you and the band did on the wedding day. You were all absolutely fantastic and I have to say, I couldn't get onto the dance floor at times as it was so packed!! Everyone commented on how great the band was and I know for a fact another couple that are getting married have enquired about you. We went to a wedding at Mallory a few months ago and there were many of the same guests so I was desperate for our wedding to be different, having you there made sure of that. Anyway, I could go on and on. Thank you so much for helping to make our day so special!! Love, Adam and Krystal (Mr and Mrs Irwin!!)

"You really made our wedding day" - Just a small email to say an absolutely massive thank you for playing such wonderful sets at our wedding yesterday. We thought you were amazing - and so many of our guests have commented about how great they thought you were too. I think the crowded dance floor and wolf whistles throughout said it all! You really made our wedding day. Many thanks again, and best of best wishes. Liz and Paul (Mr and Mrs Taylor!) xx 

"We will not hesitate to recommend you!" - Thank you all for a fantastic night! We will not hesitate to recommend you! Thanks again! love Sarah & Andy xxx

"They were perfect for our special occasion" - This great band played at our wedding recently and we cannot praise them enough. They played two great sets which got everyone, particularly me the groom, up dancing and singing along to some great tunes. They were perfect for our special occasion and we hope to go to one of their own gigs in the very near future. Book them for your own celebration and I guarantee you will not be disappointed. Thanks Jon and fellow band members for making our special day that extra bit special. Jim&Val.      

"Our friends haven’t stopped texting and ringing saying how much they enjoyed the day" - I would just like to say a great big thank you for your contribution to making our wedding day so fantastic and making the evening party so enjoyable!! I have obviously read the testimonials on your website and seen your videos and therefore was expecting a great evening’s entertainment, however what you gave us totally surpassed all our expectations! Our friends haven’t stopped texting and ringing us saying how much they enjoyed the day, especially commenting on how fantastic the band were!! So once again thank you all so much, and if we ever are throwing a large party again, I will definitely be calling you, and would not hesitate to recommend you to anybody else. Thank you. Jill & Harry.

"Brilliant! ... The mix of music was spot on" - Brilliant!  The band played at our wedding reception on August 2nd and they were amazing, I lost count of how many people said how good they were.  The mix of music was spot on - it must have been because the dance floor was full for the entire set!  Thanks again, guys. Love Sarah and Edd xx

"I seriously cannot recommend these guys enough. They will make your
 night fantastic!" - They are approachable, polite, accommodating with our requests prior to the wedding, even singing our rewritten version of our first dance. All of our guests commented on what a great set they played and there wasn’t anyone that resisted the temptation to hit the dance floor. A massive thank you to each band member. I seriously cannot recommend these guys enough. They will make your night fantastic!

"They were polite & friendly, extremely professional" - Junction 2 arrived early and were very well organized. They were polite & friendly, extremely professional. Regarding their performance, they exceeded our expectations!

Blues has evolved from the unaccompanied vocal music and oral traditions of slaves imported from West Africa (principally present-day Mali, Senegal, the Gambia and Ghana)and rural blacks into a wide variety of styles and subgenres, with regional variations across the United States. Though blues, as it is now known, can be seen as a musical style based on both European harmonic structure and the African call-and-response tradition, transformed into an interplay of voice and guitar, the blues form itself bears no resemblance to the melodic styles of the West African griots, and the influences are faint and tenuous. In particular, no specific African musical form can be identified as the single direct ancestor of the blues. However many blues elements, such as the call-and-response format and the use of blue notes, can be traced back to the music of Africa. That blue notes pre-date their use in blues and have an African origin is attested by English composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's "A Negro Love Song", from his The African Suite for Piano composed in 1898, which contains blue third and seventh notes The Diddley bow (a homemade one-stringed instrument found in parts of the American South in the early twentieth century) and the banjo are African-derived instruments that may have helped in the transfer of African performance techniques into the early blues instrumental vocabulary. The banjo seems to be directly imported from western African music. It is similar to the musical instrument that griots played (called halam or akonting by African peoples such as the Wolof, Fula and Madinka). However, in the 1920s, when country blues began to be recorded, the use of the banjo in blues music was quite marginal and limited to individuals such as Papa Charlie Jackson and later Gus Cannon.