The Big Annual Tradition lives on... Feb. 28, 2017 FAT TUESDAY Street Parade & Dance Concert in Petaluma, CA ...
26th Annual! Mardi Gras Day Mambofest: at The Big Easy
...with the big boss New Orleans R&B mix of Rhythmtown-Jive
doing the songs of "Girl Groups & Girl Singers of New Orleans with the K-Girls" (From Big Bang Beat: Keta Bill, Kathie Kennedy, Carol Bozzio Littleton)
Note: WE RECOMMEND YOU GET YOUR TICKETS BEFORE THE PARADE STARTS, ...so you can parade with us right into the Big Easy. DETAILS: Meet at PUTNAM PLAZA at 5:30 (near Speakeasy, @139 Petaluma Blvd No.) for Neighborhood Street Parade......
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The Big Annual Tradition lives on... Feb. 28, 2017 FAT TUESDAY Street Parade & Dance Concert in Petaluma, CA ...
26th Annual! Mardi Gras Day Mambofest: at The Big Easy
...with the big boss New Orleans R&B mix of Rhythmtown-Jive
doing the songs of "Girl Groups & Girl Singers of New Orleans with the K-Girls" (From Big Bang Beat: Keta Bill, Kathie Kennedy, Carol Bozzio Littleton)
Note: WE RECOMMEND YOU GET YOUR TICKETS BEFORE THE PARADE STARTS, ...so you can parade with us right into the Big Easy. DETAILS: Meet at PUTNAM PLAZA at 5:30 (near Speakeasy, @139 Petaluma Blvd No.) for Neighborhood Street Parade...
- starts at 5:45 with Marching Brass Band through downtown,
and ends up in the Big Easy, 128 American Alley 707-776-4631 - All Ages! Dance Party starts @7:00...
With Tim Eschliman (played with Etta James, Commander Cody, Christmas Jug Band), Kevin Zuffi (Earl King, Joe Louis Walker, Coasters), Mike Rinta (Sly & Family Stone, Jimmy Vaughn), Ken "Snakebite" Jacobs (Frankie Ford, New Orleans Nightcrawlers, Kinky Friedman & Texas Jewboys), Michael Peloquin (Tommy Castro, E.C. Scott) and Kevin Dillon (Nick Gravenites)
**NOTE: Musicians and other revelers, like horn players, percussionists, accordion players, bead-throwers, handkerchief-wavers, parasol-paraders: we're inviting folks to join us for this parade. Meet at Putnam Plaza around 5:30. You should get your tickets before the parade so you can parade on into the club with us. - email us at [email protected] for details.
The Mardi Gras Mambofest show by Rhythmtown–Jive is a celebration of many styles of New Orleans music: from the rhythm & blues of Huey "Piano" Smith & the Clowns, through the lively 30's jazz of Louis Armstrong to the funk of the Meters. This combo has a long relationship with New Orleans music, having recorded many original compositions in that vein (one co-written with Zigaboo Modeliste of the Meters) and having backed Earl King and Lee Allen. Various members of the group have also worked with Dr. John, Ernie–K–Doe, Queen Ida, Gary “U. S.” Bonds, Johnny Adams, Herb Hardesty, Zigaboo Modeliste and Leo Nocentelli. The annual Mardi Gras Mambofest shows on or around Fat Tuesday have drawn rave reviews and capacity crowds anticipating a wild and festive occasion with bead-tossing, outrageous costumes, and even second line parading of the Rhythmtown–Jive Marching Brass. This show has appeared multiple times at BGP's famed "New Orleans By The Bay."
With vocal duets and harmonies as well as hard-driving sax–based instrumentals, the Mardi Gras Mambofest features original compositions inspired in the New Oreans tradition as well as the music of Fats Domino, Dr. John, The Neville Brothers, Clifton Chenier, Shirley & Lee, Allen Toussaint, Irma Thomas, Paul Gayten, Little Richard (yes, his big hits were all from New Orleans), Kidd Jordan, Charlie & Inez Foxx, Clarence "Frogman" Henry, Professor Longhair, Lee Dorsey, Frankie Ford, Barbara George, and Smiley Lewis. Many in the San Francisco Bay Area and up and down the West Coast may be familiar with the "....shoutin' and honkin' jump-jive..." of the traditional small combo version of Rhythmtown-Jive (once Five Guys Named Mo), but the Mardi Gras Mambofest show adds the Towering Trombone of Mike Rinta (Sly & the Family Stone, Jimmy Vaughn), and the Boss Tenor Sax of Ken "Snakebite" Jacobs (Frankie Ford, Kinky Friedman, New Orleans Nightcrawlers).
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