The M SHANGHAI STRING BAND of Brooklyn, New York, started in 2002 as a monthly show in the basement of a local chinese restaurant, the M Shanghai Bistro. Locals began to call the band "M Shanghai". The name stuck. The crowds grew. Their debut album, “Up From the Ground Below” (20 songs recorded in one day in the restaurant’s dining room) set the mission in motion: timeless original music played with a sense of abandon, captured completely live.
Resonator Guitar: Austin Hughes
Fiddle: Philiippa Thompson, Glendon Jones
Harmonica: "Shakey" Dave Pollock
Bass: Patty Hughes, Harrison Cannon
Guitar: Matt Schickele
Mandolin: Richard Morris
Banjo: Hilary Hawke
Drums/Percussion: Brian Geltner