Bard SummerScape
The Hot Sardines
Jazz of 1920s Paris
July 12, 2013
Bard SummerScape
July 12, 2013
Tickets: $20 (standing room), $25 (booth), $30 (outer ring table), $35 (inner ring table)
Limited table availability, standing room available.
“The most foot-stomping, raucous jazz band in the world.”—The Music Playground
The Wall Street Journal calls the Hot Sardines “high-energy traditional jazz with a Parisian accent.” The collective, including a blustery brass lineup and a just-one-of-the-boys front-woman, creates music reminiscent of wartime Paris via New Orleans: a sound steeped in hot jazz, salty stride piano, and the kind of music Louis Armstrong used to make. This is straight-up, foot-stomping jazz from a near-century ago that stays resolutely in step with the current age.