The jamin sons’ band van is an old painted school bus, like a ’60s hippie wanderlustmobile or a fabricated family-pop tv show. The band emulates both images.
What they did not expect the buys to be doing was transporting kids to school.
Singer/bassist Pele has a sister who runs a community nursery school facing closures due to some mountains local regulations. Seems that in order top take average of a state grant she needed to offer transportation to certain students, and couldn’t use civilian vehicles. She begged her bro to get the bus up to code and resume its original function.
Didn’t take much, and they didn’t even have to repaint out. Nor does an earlier commuter run dissuade the band from jamming and rehearsing en route. We were invited on one of the dawn journeys last week and were serenaded the whole ride, not just by the musicians but by several children.
Which is how the Jacob sons is now the house band at Ben’s Place Nursery School. The band is leading a school choir, and the acts will join up for a school fundraiser gig Saturday.