Goodtime Music! Acoustic, Bluegrass & Old Time Band

This site serves as World-wide headquarters for the Goodtime Stringband and hosts Andy Sicard’s reports on local traditional music happenings, musical projects and and other items of interest.

Andy Sicard is a multi-instrumentalist who has been performing with regional roots music and bluegrass bands for the past ten years. His most recent musical projects have included the critically acclaimed “Goodtime Charlies” and “Hard Times” bands. Andy was the recipient of a 2007 New Hampshire State Council on the Arts grant for traditional arts studies in bluegrass mandolin. He has a “black belt” (tho not the karate kind),  and is a lover of domestic light beers.

Here are some press clippings for your reading enjoyment!

Click here to see The Goodtime Charlies bluegrass jam as featured in the June 30th Nashua Broadcaster

Click here to read an article about the Goodtime Charlies published in the Nashua Telegraph (August 2005)

Nashua Hippo Article “Home-grown hangouts: Cool music without the long drive”

Click here to read an article/interview Andy wrote about Mike Holmes and Banjo Camp North

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Please note, the Goodtime Stringband is available to perform in Braintree, Cambridge, Newton, Readville, Brookline Village, Medford, Randolph, Milton, Quincy, Wallaston, Watertown, West Medford, Weymouth, Arlington Heights, Holbrook, Melrose, Nonantum, North Quincy, Waverley, Dorchester, East Weymouth, Hyde Park, Mattapan, North Weymouth, Oakdale, South Weymouth, Waltham, Babson Park, Avon, Canton and many other locations in and around the Boston area.

Need bluegrass in New Hampshire? The Goodtime Stringband is available to perform in Manchester, Bedford, Merrimack, Auburn, Litchfield, Londonderry, Goffstown, Derry, Hooksett, Amherst, Chester, Candia, Hudson, Mont Vernon, Nashua, Windham, Milford, New Boston, Sandown, Bow, Concord, Hampstead, Hollis, Raymond, Suncook, Salem, Weare, Atkinson, Danville, East Candia, East Hampstead Deerfield, Candia, Epsom, Suncook, Hooksett, Northwood, Auburn, Raymond, Lochmere, Manchester, Nottingham, West Nottingham, Bow, Chester, East Candia, Pittsfield, Strafford, South Sutton, Winnisquam, Andover, Epping, Fremont, Laconia, Loudon, North Sutton, Center Strafford, Elkins, Goffstown, Sandown, South Newbury and many other locations in and around the Lakes Region.