The 21st Meredith Music Festival


The Juan Pablo Family Hour

The Juan Pablo Family Hour first reared its head at the stroke of midnight in 1947 at a back country crossroads diner after a plethora of persimmon gin slings. A sprawling electrical storm had charged the diner with tesla-esque energy and a jukebox began to disastrously malfunction. The music spuriously spilling out of the diner needed to be tamed. Two young dandies joined forces, wrestled, whipped and wrangled the possessed jukebox with furious vigour until finally the dawn birds began to spell the end of the supernatural evening. They slapped the devil square in the mouth that night and forever were cursed to repeat the act every night for fear of retribution. The diner-goers became their slaves and were doomed to twist on for all eternity. After 60 years the pair of mavericks now sullied with unequivocal darkness, turned the curse’s energy on itself and obliterated the diner causing freak weather events the world over. So armed with the records from what was left of the diners jukebox, the two have fought their way into the modern world to destroy lives with music…