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Winners of the "People in their Twenties" competition on National Public Radio's 'A Prairie Home Companion.'

The Powder Kegs are an old-time string band from Burlington, Vermont on a mission to re-energize the communication lines between the new generation and its roots. Sam McDougle (fiddle), Dan Maroti (guitar and vocals) and Ryan Dieringer (bass and vocals) first played together in a bluegrass band in high school; when Sam went off to college at Vassar, he met Jake Hoffman (banjo and vocals) and Peter Winne (slide guitar, harmonica, vocals). They formed The Powder Kegs in the winter of 2006, and headed to Burlington the following summer where they worked on a farm for room and board and performed at bars, clubs, and on the street. Their first full-length album, The Seedhouse, released this past winter, was a bestseller on Cdbaby.com in the month of April, 2007. Earlier this spring they were invited to perform live on National Public Radio’s show A Prairie Home Companion as part of its “People in Their 20’s” contest and won. After a street performing tour of the East coast in June, the Kegs settle into permanent residence in the Hudson Valley of New York.