Bard SummerScape, Fisher Center
Evening Cabaret: Two Man Gentlemen Band
July 30, 2011
Bard SummerScape, Fisher Center
July 30, 2011
Hot, raucous retro swing performed with great enthusiasm and skill!
Just a few years ago, the Gentlemen were buskers in New York City’s parks and subway stations. These days, they traverse the country incessantly, playing hundreds of shows per year.
The Two Man Gentlemen Band sound is a high-energy blend of vintage and modern, incorporating elements of hot jazz, R&B, Tin Pan Alley, and western swing. Their “keen vocal harmonies” (The New Yorker) recall 20s and 30s groups like the Mills Brothers, and their pithy, irreverent original tunes are full of lyrics “so off the beaten path as to be virtually cliché free” (Bluegrass Journal).
Tickets: $25