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Gordon Webster Meets Hetty Kate at Woods Hole Jazz Series at Woods Hole Community Hall
Courtesy of John Allen | Posted on January 7, 2015
Where
Woods Hole Community Hall
Woods Hole Jazz Series
68 Water Street
Woods Hole, MA
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When
Sun, January 25, 2015
7:30 pm
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Musicians
Gordon Webster
pianoHetty Kate
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Woods Hole Jazz™ presents Gordon Webster meets Hetty Kate
Pianist Gordon Webster and vocalist Hetty Kate provide an evening of vintage jazz, lindy, and hot swing on Sunday, January 25th, 7:30 PM at Woods Hole Community Hall, 68 Water Street, Woods Hole. Tickets are $20.
New York City-based Gordon Webster began playing piano in his native Ottawa at age four. While studying jazz at the University of Toronto, he developed an obsession with the lindy hop, a popular swing dance of the 40s. Both a dancer and a musician, he met his wife Katie, also a lindy hopper, at Swing Out New Hampshire, a lindy dance camp where Webster’s band still plays each summer. The couple moved to New York City where he received his masters degree from the Manhattan School of Music in 2006. Since then Webster has recorded six albums and has become one of the most sought after musicians in the lindy hop world drawing upon influences as diverse as Fats Waller, Count Basie, Oscar Peterson, and Gene Harris serving up a smorgasbord of styles unified by one characteristic: irresistible danceability....