Busking Seattle: Dysfunction Junction Bluegrass Band – Lake City Farmers Market
22 June 2023
Dysfunction Junction is an entity centered around washtub bassist Patrick Ferris, who assembles ensembles from a fluid stable of rotating musicians according to whatever gig he pulls out of his hat. (bonus challenge: what is easier to envision, a fluid stable or a rotating musician?) This particular one is the “Bluegrass Band”. Harris’s instrument is no ordinary washtub; it’s a custom built tuneable three-stringer with a protruding horn (poorly captured, seen at the bottom of the sketch). Apparently only two of its kind were constructed before the maker gave it up as an unsustainable enterprise. All three musicians are singers, and mastery of the bluegrass genre here was casually (at least as casual as the attire) authoritative.
Patrick Ferris
Mike Fischman
Craig Eggan