Eight To The Bar + Sweeter Than Wine

Tickets:

General Admission: $20

Reserved Seating: $30

Eight To The Bar + Sweeter Than Wine

Listening to Eight to the Bar is a lot like driving along a time-warped highway precisely halfway between Count Basie's Kansas City and Fats Waller's Harlem, where the car radio picks up everything from Jumpin’ at the Woodside to The Andrews Sisters. Their material, like their outlandish wardrobes and onstage choreo, is a colorful mix of forties jazz and swing, fifties jump blues, a little bit of classic Motown, and their own swing-influenced tunes. With their female vocals, saxophone (their sax player, Collin Tilton, is Van Morrison’s original sax and flute player and he played on Morrison’s quadruple-platinum-selling Moondance album), guitar, bass, keyboards and drums, this unique sextet pack a musical and visual wallop not seen in New England since the group's inception in 1975. Since that time they have released 13 CDs and have excited audiences from Europe to the Caribbean. The band has just been named “Best of CT 2024 Musical Group” by CT Magazine, “Best All Around Band” by the CT Now Readers’ Poll 2018 and in 2011 had the honor of touring the Republic of Georgia (near Russia) at the invitation of the U.S. Embassy there. Currently they have released their 13th CD, The Light Fantastic, an album that celebrates the art of dance.

Special guest: Sweeter than Wine

Host or Publisher Small Batch Cellars