Upcoming Events

A REAL DEVINE FOLK BLUES REVIVAL:

Devine's Jug Band, Dustbowl Revival & Ragtime Skedaddlers

Saturday, May 12 7:30pm

$16 advance / $18 door

 

 

SF's Best Jug Band meets LA's finest folk blues orchestra plus the best ragtime stringband around!

 

Pete Devine's Jug Band

Don't let these youngsters fool you. They've been playing real-deal, nitty gritty, pre-war jazz, blues, ragtime, and jug band music together and in various combinations for well over a decade. Suddenly there is a proliferation of bands from coast to coast playing the ol' Memphis Jug Band songs. Playing them with the authority and conviction of the originals is another matter. The songs they play date to the turn of the century. Devine's Jug band plays them with such precision and affection that something wholly new and magical is revealed about them. www.myspace.com/devinesjugband

 

Dustbowl Revival
Dustbowl Revival is high impact, 10-piece, happy collision of bluegrass, ragtime and New Orleans gypsy folk jive, playing outstanding originals and uniquely arranged classics with vintage finesse and contemporary gusto. Despite the diversity of influences, this rather large collection of vintage clothes wearing, Venice Beach jazzbos has forged a tight cohesive sound framed in a singular vision. In their songs you hear a solid unmistakable affection for horn driven swinging good time jazz. Yet the approach is fresh and oddly modern sounding. It’s like hearing Fats Waller's band jam with the Black Keys. They’re proof positive that boot-stomping good time songs played by talented music lovers will never go out of style. www.dustbowlrevival.com

 

Ragtime Skedaddlers
Ragtime is America’s first original popular music. Known for its entrancing syncopated rhythms, it was all the rage from the late 1890s up to World War I, a period that also saw a surge of interest in banjo, mandolin, and guitar ensembles. Cakewalks, rags, "Indian intermezzos", and Latin dances were all arranged for string instruments. The Ragtime Skedaddlers revive the joyous sounds of a ragtime string band consisting of two mandolins and guitar. Their new CD, Mandolins at the Cake Walk, includes the first modern recordings of many early arrangements. www.myspace.com/ragtimeskedaddlers

 

Doors open 25 minutes before the concert. And, YES! There is free parking!

Coming up…

Culaan’s Hounds, Gospel Night & more!