The musical ensemble, Mebanesville, began in the late summer of 2000 as a collection of longtime neighbors and friends playing a regular, informal Friday evening musical session at a coffee bar in Mebane, North Carolina.

Soon audience members were inviting the musicians to play for private parties and special events. The players took the name Mebanesville - the local community’s name in the 18th and 19th century prior to the incorporation of the town of Mebane in the early 1880’s - to reflect their love of living locally but exploring music globally.

Today, the musicians ply the musical byways throughout the Cape Fear and Neuse River watersheds, performing a unique blend of music Americana from yesteryear to tomorrow. The band draws upon source material from the people and musical currents that feed the waters of the Gulf Stream off the North Carolina coast and flow with them as far as the Irish Sea, the Straits of Gibraltar and back again.

The sounds of Mebanesville’s fiddle, piano, accordion, pennywhistle, recorder, banjo, guitar, mandolin, bass, voice and hand percussion weave an emotional tapestry that evokes private memories and timeless states of mind proven to lift your attitude and move your feet. <