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John "papa" Gros & Honey Island Swamp Band at Ardmore Music Hall
Courtesy of Ardmore Music Hall | Posted on September 25, 2017
Where
Ardmore Music Hall
23 Lancaster Avenue
Ardmore, PA
Map
(610) 649-8389
When
Sun, November 5, 2017
7:00 pm
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Musicians
About
Born in New Orleans, John "Papa" Gros has spent more than a quarter-century championing the music of the Big Easy. He's played it all — New Orleans funk, rock & roll, jazz, blues, Americana, pop/rock — and he swirls those styles into a genre-bending gumbo that pays tribute to his influences while still pushing ahead into new territory.
Formed on the strength of timeless songs from Aaron Wilkinson and Chris Mulé, Honey Island Swamp Band’s "Bayou Americana" sound has been compared to the music of such forefathers as Lowell George, Earl King, Taj Mahal, Jerry Garcia, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Gram Parsons and Jimmy Reed....