GAINOR & FRIENDS Check out "Jambalaya" or "Train Carrying Jimmie Rodgers Home" on YouTube (home)

brewgrass jam at the Broadway Brewery on Sundays

Jammin' at the Broadway Brewery in Columbia, MO, every Sunday. C'mon down the stairs on the south side of Broadway where Uprise Bakery used to be, eat a hamburger, drink a beer, and catch some good bluegrass jammin, a-jammin, a-jammin, a-jammin, every Sunday, from 1 to 4 pm.

At the Children's Miracle Network street party at the Harley Davidson Dealership, early in July 2009, friends here include (back row) Robyn McKown, Mike McKown, Terry McKown, Clifford Hill, Tara Calvin, and (front row) Dan McKown, Ron McLaughlin, Barry Gainor, and Pippa Letsky.

AND IN 2010, Friends are the Usual Suspects, with TJ, the Children's Hospital mascot, and Tom Lata on guitar.

GAINOR & FRIENDS play the lunchtime music at the Broadway Brewery (downstairs on Broadway under The American Shoe Store), on the first Friday of the month. COME ON DOWN and enjoy good food, good drinks, good company, good music, and all FOR A WORTHY CAUSE. All tips for this band go to the MU Children's Hospital. Over the years, we've raised more than eight thousand dollars for the children's hospital.

See Pippa's calendar for Gainor & Friends gigs coming up in the near future.

xmas 06

Friends on the wall Dirk Burhans, Pippa, Tara Calvin, Barry; on the grass Tom Lata, Dan McKown, Ron McLaughlin

The multi-talented Dr Barry Gainor is also an able and experienced recording artist. Limited edition sales are now available of his newest acoustic CD to benefit the MU Children's Hospital. Entitled "Songs Mostly about the Heartland: A Bonesetter's Tale," this unplugged album is a musical retrospective spanning several decades. The journey of medical training is whimsically chronicled in bluesy sketches like "PGY-1 Man" and "80 Hours a Week." Most of the tunes are about Missouri, including a children's Halloween song.

Harris benefit

photo: Barry Gainor's Moonshyne Reunion at Jeff Harris's birthday party, 2005 -- left to right: Dean Franklin, Dan McKown, Barry Himself, Jeff Harris, Tara Calvin, Pippa, David Dean White