FOTMC 2027
Guests of Honor: The Four O'Clocks
The Four O’ Clocks are Max Godfrey (fiddle), Maggie Hall (guitar), Jenna Mobley (bass/fiddle) and Jeremy Aggers (banjo): creatures of the golden hour, summoning weary travelers together to dance and howl away at the rising moon. They honed their explosive sound over two years of performing for dances and at bars in Atlanta, and are known for powerful harmonies and wild, diabolical playing. While it’s clear from watching them that they are playing for the fun of it, they are nevertheless becoming a sought-after string band, and their music has taken them as far afield as New Orleans, Western NC, and the Florida Panhandle. Since recording their debut album in January 2025, they've played at Eddie's Attic, Fiddler's Green, Bear on the Square, The John C. Campbell Folk School, as well as shows and dances in Birmingham, Athens, Sautee Nacoochee, Chattanooga, New Orleans, Tallahassee, and Asheville.
Max Godfrey & Maggie Hall
Max Godfrey and Maggie Hall hit it off at the Atlanta Contra Dance in 2012 and began playing old-time tunes at farmers markets around Atlanta. Since then, they’ve been fixtures of the Atlanta music scene and known for their wild, energetic style and tight vocal harmonies. Max teaches music at Guitar Shed and The Frank Hamilton School, where he helps run the children’s program with bandmate, Jenna Mobley. He also organizes a monthly square-dance in Cabbagetown! When she’s not playing guitar, Maggie can be found traipsing through the forest, gathering inspiration and materials for her artwork and handicrafts. Her current focus is watercolor painting, broom making, basket weaving, and needle felting.
Jenna Mobley
Jenna Shea Mobley is a touring and studio musician based out of Atlanta. She plays mostly fiddle and upright bass these days, though her first instruments were banjo, guitar, and piano. She has been a teacher of each of these instruments to students of all ages over the past 15 years, in both individual lessons and group classes and workshops.
While she was trained classically from middle school through college, she now plays more old-time and folk styles and teaches primarily ear training, improvisation, and folk/popular repertoire. Her degree in Early Childhood Education and her career as an elementary school teacher have been a strong influence to her pedagogical approach, and her deep love for building a community of learners and creative individuals is in deep harmony with the old-time music and dance traditions. Her goal is for her students to be life-long musicians with the skills to learn tunes and songs they love and to connect with others through music.
Jeremy Aggers
Jeremy Aggers comes to the Four O’Clocks after writing, recording, and touring his own music for a decade as a guitarist, songwriter, and this North Carolina native “got into a fistfight” with music and lost so bad, that he started playing old-time banjo! It truly changed his life for the better (believe it or not). He plays any chance he gets and has been lucky to learn from and accompany some of the finest fiddlers in Georgia.
