The Mighty Manatees
The Mighty Manatees is an American band based in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Throughout a career spanning four decades, the band has performed in a wide range of styles including blues, reggae, country, folk, ska, funk, zydeco and rock 'n roll—distilled into a genre described as "Dreadneck", a term not easily defined. They have formerly been known by a variety of other stage names, including The Manatees, and The Mighty Manatees Medicine Show.
On September 11, 2002 the band played in a tribute to those who died in the September 11 attacks.
In 2012 Jim Cavanaugh and Will Hodgson played in Belfast and Dublin, backing up Shana Morrison opening for father Van Morrison.
In 2015 the group performed at a theater in Sellersville, Pennsylvania to celebrate their 30th anniversary and to memorialize a Pennsylvania-born teenager who died of a brain tumor.
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