Kit Eakle’s Jaz’n’theviolin String Band at Viff Centre

About

Louie Bluie, the stage name of Howard Armstrong, was one of many fiddle players who gave birth to the new sounds of jazz and blues at the beginning of the twentieth century. The role of the fiddle in roots of jazz and the blues are exemplified in the joyous and long, life-affirming career of Louie Bluie.

Kit Eakle’s ’Jaz’N’theViolin’ gives his music context, playing the music of the often forgotten, larger than life black fiddlers and jazz violinists like Louie Bluie, Lonnie Johnson, and the Memphis Jugband, who pioneered this music.