đźŽđźŽ¶ 33rd Annual Mardi Gras Mambofest 🎶🎠with Rhythmtown-Jive and California Blue Runners (real deal Cajun guys from Louisiana) at the Mystic Theatre, Petaluma, CA Get ready for a night of music, food, and Mardi Gras magic at the Mystic Theatre! 🎉
tickets at:
https://wl.seetickets.us/event/rhythmtown-jive/636186?afflky=MysticTheatre
Event page at: https://www.facebook.com/events/588857607332050
23 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma CA
🎺 6:15 PM – Kick things off with a lively street parade! The band will start playing out front, parade through downtown “second line” style, and end back at the theatre to get the party started! 🎷✨
🎶 Live Music Lineup: Rhythmtown-Jive: 8:15 – 9:45 PM …features Keta Bill, Kathy Kennedy and Katie Guthorn of Big Bang Beat, plus Tim Eschliman (played with Etta James, Commander Cody, Christmas Jug Band), Kevin Zuffi (Earl King, Joe Louis Walker, Coasters), Ken “Snakebite” Jacobs (Frankie Ford, New Orleans Nightcrawlers, Kinky Friedman & Texas Jewboys), Michael Peloquin (Chris Cain, Tommy Castro) Bowen Brown (John Lee Hooker, Tommy Castro) and Rene Jenkins (Natalie Cole, Mary Wilson, SRO) plus+ special guest Candy Girard on Cajun/Zydeco fiddle
California Blue Runners: 7:00 – 7:45 PM … a high energy band playing Cajun and Zydeco music in its original format, led by Andrew Carriere on accordion and vocals. A Louisiana Frenchman, accordionist and singer Andrew Carriere brings a long family tradition into his playing. His father was the legendary Creole fiddler “Bebe” Carriere. Carriere is a highly sought after singer and accordion player in the West Coast Cajun music scene. The band also features Tom Stewart on guitar, Haywood Douresseau on rubboard, David Hymowitz, drums and Andre Nigoghossian on fiddle.
🍹 Cajun Vibes All Day! McNear’s Saloon will be serving up delicious Cajun food and drinks to keep the good times rolling!
🎠Don’t miss this Mardi Gras celebration full of music, flavor, and fun! See you there! đźŽ
The Mardi Gras Mambofest show by Rhythmtown–Jive is a celebration of many styles of New Orleans music: the 30’s swing of Louis Armstrong, marching brass band numbers, the rhythm & blues of Huey “Piano” Smith & the Clowns and Professor Longhair plus the funk of the Meters and Dr. John, performing every Mardi Gras Season since 1992. This combo has a long relationship with New Orleans music, having recorded many original compositions in that vein (some co-written and recorded with Zigaboo Modeliste of the Meters) and having backed Earl King and Lee Allen. Various members of the group have also worked with Ernie–K–Doe, Frankie Ford, Gary “U. S.” Bonds, Leo Nocentelli and the Grammy-winning New Orleans Nightcrawlers. 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 second line parading. The band were regulars at Bill Graham’s “New Orleans By The Bay” at Shoreline Amphitheatre.
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 smaller combo version of Rhythmtown-Jive (formerly Five Guys Named Mo) and the Mardi Gras Mambofest show adds the lovely vocal stylings of the girls from Big Bang Beat plus expands to a 3-man New Orleans- style horn section. With vocal duets and harmonies as well as hard-driving sax–based instrumentals, the Mardi Gras Mambofest features original compositions inspired in the New Oeleans 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
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Mystic Theatre & Music Hall
23 Petaluma Blvd N
- Petaluma
Price: $15.00