Pioneering gypsy jazz ensemble Squirrel Nut Zippers (SNZ) have introduced their upcoming tour “Jazz from the Again O’ City” —a spellbinding tribute to the legendary New Orleans neighborhood that gave beginning to a musical revolution.
Kicking off Friday, October 10 on the Wendy Williamson Auditorium in Anchorage, AK and operating via Saturday, October 25 in Elyria, OH on the Stocker Arts Heart, these intimate, but rollicking and raucous exhibits, will discover the late nineteenth Century via the Roaring 20s NOLA Jazz scene because the Zippers present a pleasant view into this vibrant period with reverent, but thrilling, renditions of such seminal classics as Jelly Roll Morton’s “Animule Ball,” Louis Armstrong’s “Again O’ City Blues,” and lots of others.
Tickets can be found beginning Friday June 6 at 10 AM native time at https://www.snzippers.com/tourdates
Through the “Jazz from the Again O’ City” exhibits, the multi-platinum band can even carry out favorites from their very own catalog, tailored and organized to extra carefully echo the sounds of Twenties New Orleans. Moreover, SNZ founder Jimbo Mathus will lend his humorous, insightful musings on each the musical historical past of one in all America’s most fascinating cities and the tales and inspirations behind most of the Zippers’ most beloved songs.
Official dates for SNZ “Jazz from the Again O’ City” exhibits are as follows:
October 10 Wendy Williamson Auditorium Anchorage, AK
October 21 The Birchmere Alexandria, VA
October 22 Miller Theatre Studying, PA
October 23 Jergel’s Pittsburgh, PA
October 24 Payne & Mencias Palladium* Carmel, IN
October 25 Stocker Arts Heart Elyria, OH
*On sale August 1.
“Jazz from the Again O’ City” will present a uniquely-historic take a look at the origins and evolutions of SNZ over the course of their profession and the function the music of Twenties New Orleans has performed in forming and shaping their sound. Not a lot a interval piece as a residing “peek-behind-the-curtain” of inspiration and celebration.
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About Squirrel Nut Zippers
The Platinum recording artists have offered over three million albums to-date with their watershed album, Scorching (1996), making them a family title. Recorded within the warmth of New Orleans, fueled by a smoldering mixture of booze and a youthful starvation to unlock the secrets and techniques of old-world jazz, this pivotal launch was only the start for the band.
Since then, SNZ has unveiled such hits as Beasts Of Burgundy (2018), which debuted at #4 on the Billboard Jazz Albums Chart, and Christmas Caravan (1998), which went on to promote 1 / 4 of 1,000,000 copies and attain #12 on the Billboard Vacation Albums chart.
Their most up-to-date report Misplaced Songs of Doc Souchon debuted in late 2020. It featured 10 tracks – a mix of newly-penned Zippers songs, together with a number of tunes from previous instances – and has acquired acclaim from followers and critics alike.
Since reactivating in mid-2016, SNZ have been performing to packed homes throughout the nation and world wide. As Mathus has mentioned because the band’s re-launch, “it’s not a reunion, it’s a revival.”
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