We're pleased to announce that we have FOUR excellent bands lined up for this year! Scroll down to find out more on these amazing bands.
JONATHAN STOUT AND HIS CAMPUS FIVE FEATURING HILARY ALEXANDER
Jonathan Stout and his Campus Five, featuring Hilary Alexander is a septet specializing in small group swing from the late 1930’s and early 1940’s, and is one of the world’s premier swing dance bands. The Campus Five created to be the most danceable band playing swing today, while at the same time being a way to expose both dancers and listeners to some of the great yet underappreciated tunes from the swing era that are largely ignored by modern musicians.
The Campus Five was founded in 2002 by two dedicated swing dancers, and has gone on to be featured at many of the major swing dance events across the coun try (and beyond). The three CDs recorded by the Campus Five have become must-have favorites for swing DJs and instructors all over the world. The Campus Five’s first two albums, 2003’s “Jammin’ the Blues” and 2004’s “Crazy Rhythm,” both sold out of their initial pressings, and 2007’s “Moppin’ and Boppin’” has flown off the shelves.
The Campus Five has been featured at the following events: Camp Hollywood, the London Balboa Festival (UK), All Balboa Weekend (Cleveland), Camp Jitterbug (Seattle), DCLX (Washington DC), Honolulu Lindy Exchange, Denver Balboa Festival, Balboa Rendezvous (San Diego), the Sacramento Lindy Exchange, San Francisco Balboa Festival. Our festival, municipal and corporate clients include: Sweet and Hot Jazz Festival (Los Angeles), Orange County Classic Jazz Festival, Los Angeles Music Center, Culver City Music Festival, Ventura Lemon Fest, Ventura Music Festival, IBM, Speedo, NBC, Loyola Marymount University, and the University of Southern California.
In 2005, The Campus Five was featured on the Ellen Degeneres Show (NBC).
To learn more visit the band's website
Watch Jonathan Stout and His Campus Five on Youtube
THE BLUE VIPERS OF BROOKLYN
The Blue Vipers of Brooklyn are an early jazz, swing, and blues band, composed of acoustic guitar/vocals, upright bass, homemade washboard percussion, trumpet and saxophone. Their repertoire of witty songs from 1920's and 30's is augmented by original tunes with moving yet often bawdy lyrics and catchy 4 part vocal harmony.
To learn more visit the band's website
Watch The Blue Vipers of Brooklyn on Youtube
THE BOILERMAKER JAZZ BAND
The Boilermaker Jazz Band is an ecstatically fun band performing authentic hot jazz and swing. The group has a wide repertoire that can make an audience swing to a classic jazz standard, get sentimental over an old-time ballad, boogie to a hot jump tune, or get low-down with a gritty blues. From concert halls to dances, festivals to family parties, listeners and dancers agree — with their infectious beat and enthusiasm this band can make any crowd move!
Leading the Boilermaker Jazz Band on clarinet and vocals is Paul Cosentino, a full time bandleader/performer who founded the band in 1988 at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He is constantly searching for new and original tunes to add to the band’s classic jazz repertoire — you’ll hear something different every time! Paul plays an antique Albert system clarinet giving him a wonderfully distinctive sound.
To learn more visit the band's website
Watch The Boilermaker Jazz Band on Youtube
THE RED HOT RHYTHM CHIEFS
The Red Hot Rhythm Chiefs were formed out of a common passion for hot, gypsy style jazz, and over a beer or two in 2007. The lineup of Jon Steele on bass, Craig Gildner on guitar/cornet/vocal, Jeff Reynolds on fiddle and Tom McLaughlin on guitar follows in the tradition of famous small string groups of the 1930's led by Django Reinhardt, Joe Venuti, and Eddie Lang. RHRC's players come from different musical backgrounds: there's some New Orleans trad, straight ahead swing, western swing, and bluegrass pickin' all mashed together on tunes like Swing 42, Nuages, Dark Eyes, South, Chinatown My Chinatown, and As Long As I Live. Tempos are lively for shag or balboa, and even the slower numbers have a stomp like feel.
The band has played for several Jam Cellar events, ALHC, the annual Repeal Day Ball for the American Bartenders Association and now its first DCLX!
Watch The Red Hot Rhythm Chiefs on Youtube