Burnt Mills Highballers
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Upcoming Shows

Date City Address Time
Oct 4, 2025 Farm Party Private 4:00 pm
Oct 11, 2025 Private Wedding ALL DAY
Oct 18, 2025 Private Wedding ALL DAY
Oct 24, 2025 Over the river n up the hill Private Bday Party 6:00pm
Nov 1, 2025 Upper Black Eddy, PA The Gulch, 1821 River Rd 7:00 pm
Nov 14, 2025 Milford, NJ Farm House Inn, 425 Milford Warren Glen Rd 7:00 pm
Nov 21, 2025 Frenchtown, NJ Wild Fern Brewing, 62A Trenton Ave 6:00 pm

Band Members

Instrument Name
Bass Caitlin Pyne
Fiddle Mike Haller
Guitar Sally Sam Heller
Banjo Tom Malle
3 Finger Banjo Russ Gottlieb
Guitar Rich Kiley
Mandolin Lucas Pick
Bass Dave Brumberg

Where our name comes from?

Milford, NJ used to be called Burnt Mills after a large fire in 1769. While 'highball' comes from the old-fashioned train signal meaning "full speed" originating from raising a ball to the top of a mast. in the 1920s the Blue Ridge Highballers out of Danville, Virginia was playing and releasing music and then the Ozark Highballers out Fayetteville, Arkansas started playing in 2014 with some of the best old time harmonica playing you'll ever hear. Back to 'highball' and 'Burnt Mills' though; the art on the top of our website here was drawn by local artist Ethan Stuart and it's of a 1877 trainwreck, "One of the greatest disasters in the history of the local division of the Pennsylvania Railroad occurred here on the evening of October 4, 1877. There had been very heavy rains, which converted the Quequacommissicong creek into a mighty, raging torrent. The wild, rushing stream undermined and washed away a part of the stone culvert, at the creek’s mouth, over which the 'Oswego and Philadelphia Express' had to pass. When the train reached this point, the locomotive No. 142, plunged into the abyss, with the baggage and two passenger coaches following." In conclusion we are a firey trainwreck!

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