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band’s old saxophonist, now in Key West, Florida, joins the group when’s he’s in town, usually three or four times a year. “We don’t know who will be with us until we get to the job and start playing,” the guitarist added.
They uon’t do demo tapes, they don’t have the video that’s now standard with most bands, they don’t advertise. Yet they play every weekend of the year, from summer weddings in Connecticut and New York to hunt balls for Rapphannock, Fauquier, Blue Ridge and Middleburg, to an extravagant “ongoing restoration” party at one of Atlanta’s grand hotels under the auspices of the Georgia Historical Trust. “Word of mouth. All of it,” Happy said. “That’s really why we’ve lasted so long. People have been calling me up since 1973, asking how they could get the Mastery Band to play. We’ve had calls from Texas and Denver. Couldn’t accommodate them!”
The band members are serious about music, but don’t take themselves seriously. Most have full-time jobfe in the non-musical world: Happy as a hand on highway and bridge construction crew, Fran as a painter, Mike as a plant “doctor” traveling from office to office to tend ailing greenery, Jay as a computer analyst and Connie as a student and
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