Especially in the U. S., a group of rustic musicians, specializing in bluegrass or folk music, whose instruments include empty jugs, bottles, and similar containers of various sizes which produce musical sounds when the player blows across the openings at the tops of their necks
We present to you, the jug band! We pulled out straw hats, banjos, jugs, horrible buck-toothed dentures, and commenced to pickin' and grinnin'.
a musical group that uses jugs and washboards and kazoos and other improvised instruments
A group that uses unconventional or improvised instruments, such as jugs, kazoos, and washboards