Folk UnderGround is a musical group from Minneapolis, MN, USA, who blend traditional music and new songs with dark and darkly comic themes. The members include Lorraine Garland

Lorraine Garland

Lorraine Garland is a folk musician from Minneapolis, Minnesota. She sang and played fiddle with science fiction author Emma Bull in folk duo The Flash Girls and with the band Folk UnderGround. Currently, she is a member of the goth / folk / rock / traditional Celtic duo Lorraine a' Malena with...

 (violin

Violin

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 and vocals), Trevor Hartman (drums

Drum kit

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, accordion

Accordion

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, and vocals), and Paul Score (guitar

Guitar

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 and vocals).

The band formed in the summer of 2002 when guitarist Paul Score and Trevor Hartman began playing tunes from Lorraine’s old band, The Flash Girls

The Flash Girls

The Flash Girls are a now defunct folk music duo based out of Minneapolis, Minnesota.. The duo consisted of Emma Bull, a noted science fiction author, and Lorraine Garland, also known as "The Fabulous Lorraine". Garland is also notable as Neil Gaiman's personal assistant; the group formed at a Guy...

. "Before Long," explained Paul in one interviewhttp://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2003/12/11_kerre_folkunderground/, "Lorraine was telling us how to play them correctly, and it went to the wee hours of the morning, and we just had a blast".

The group has two albums, Buried Things, featuring new songs written by Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman

Neil Richard Gaiman born 10 November 1960)is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre and films. His notable works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book...

 and Jane Yolen

Jane Yolen

Jane Hyatt Yolen is an American author and editor of almost 300 books. These include folklore, fantasy, science fiction, and children's books...

(among others), along with a selection of traditional songs; and Get Y'er Hands Off 'Me Booty!, a live album of (mostly) traditional songs.