HIP KITTY JAZZ / CLAREMONT SAT JAN 28 + BIRTHDAY JAM @ THE FALLS / DOWNTOWN LA SUN JAN 29

Yes, like the happy couple above, you too can have fun doing what you really love to do – that is, listen and dance to Dustbowl on a weekend night of your choice. For free. Yesssir.

What’s ahead? Let’s take a look see.

SAT JAN 28 @ HIP KITTY JAZZ & FONDUE / CLAREMONT / 8PM / FREE

SUN JAN 29 @ THE FALLS LOUNGE (D. MARK’S BDAY JAM) / DOWNTOWN LA / 10PM

SAT FEB 4 @ PAPPY & HARRIETS / PIONEERTOWN, CA w/ THE COUNTRY / FREE

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Did you see the crazy video from The Echo? Watch 10:30min in for the fiddle freakout!

More HERE.

DUSTBOWL AT REDWOOD BAR JAN 15 + ROOTS JUBILEE @ THE ECHO JAN 21 + NEW DEMO!

We are starting the fresh new year with some fresh and tasty shows for your foot-tapping enjoyment. First the Redwood with some friends from up north, then a roots summit at The Echo! We want to thank you for a delectable 2011 – some big things ahead this year – gonna be swell.

DATES:

Sun Jan 15 @ Redwood Bar w/ Whiskermen (Oakland) 10pm / 5$

Sat Jan 21 @ The Echo w/ Driftwood Singers + Triple Chicken Foot (Live Square Dance!) 7PM / 7$ / All Ages

Sat Jan 28 @ Hip Kitty Jazz / Claremont, CA

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Hey, have you heard our sweet new doo-wop demo “I Want You Back” ? It’s over HERE.

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A little silent film with ragtime piano made in Venice – gotta support street artists!

NEW YEARS EVE BALL w/ THE DUSTBOWL REVIVAL @ THE DEL MONTE SPEAKEASY / VENICE / SAT 12.31.11

We are proud to present our very special New Years Eve Ball at our favorite underground vaudeville dance hall — The Del Monte Speakeasy in Venice.

We’ve had so much fun playing our regular Saturday night swing-offs over here with DJ Boss Harmony (spinning old 45s) that they are having us kick off the new year with the best partaay yet.

As one of the most historic venues for merriment and music in the city of angels (the downstairs bar had tunnels connected to the beach for bootlegging during Prohibition), it has become our local stomping ground, and the locally-sourced, hand-shaken artisan cocktails will keep the ladies and their gents alike dancing into the early morning.

It’s been a really great year for music and merriment – and we hope to see your pretty faces downstairs at Del Monte. Celebrate nearly a century of high class goodtimes by dressing up in your favorite decade attire! Best costume gets a Dustbowl prize pack!

TIX just 20.00 / Party on two floors.

Link for PRESALE
Del Monte INFO 

RSVP HERE!

DUSTBOWL BLUES AND ROOTS NIGHT // HARVELLE’S SANTA MONICA // FRI DEC 16 // 9PM

It’s been a while and we are pumped to be back at one of LA’s oldest and coolest venues Harvelle’s in downtown Santa Monica.

We will be juke-jiving on their checkered dance floor (built 1920) starting at 9pm and then give way to the blues-harp maestro himself, JT Ross. Kindly come on down.

12.16.11 @ Harvelle’s Santa Monica / 9pm w/ Jt Ross Blues Band / 21+

Very excited to present a new video to you – a few months ago we teamed up with The Harmony Project and their kick-ass corps of kid fiddlers at the Jam In The Van RV to record an old bluegrass classic, “Old Joe Clark”. See what you think.

SWING + FONDUE + DUSTBOWL @ HIP KITTY JAZZ CLAREMONT, CA / SAT 11.19 / 8:30PM

Hey there good lookin’.

Take your loveboat and your spiffy new haircut over to The Hip Kitty Jazz Club in Claremont – we’ll be there on Saturday night for our regular swing and fondue evening of total goodness.

Sat 11.19 / 8:30pm / 5bux

It will be almost as fun as this video below.

VAUDEVILLE SHINDIG w/ THE DUSTBOWL REVIVAL + TWO MAN GENTLEMEN BAND (NYC) THURS NOV 17 + HIP KITTY CLAREMONT / SAT NOV 19

We are taking a much needed week or so off (research in New Orleans!) and then coming back strong with a Vaudeville Shindig featuring our friends The Two Man Gentlemen Band - on tour from New York. It’s our debut at the beautiful Molly Malone’s concert hall. We’ve been fans of The Gentlemen for years and it’s a thrill to have a chance to join them – come out and support your traveling minstrels!

Thurs Nov 17 / 8pm Doors / 8bux

Molly Malones (575 S. Fairfax, LA)

Dustbowl @ 9:30pm

RSVP + INFO

Fresh fan video up!

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Nov 19 @ Hip Kitty Jazz / Claremont, CA  / 8:30pm

Our favorite spot for jazz, fondue and good lookin’ folks ready to groove.

NOTE: Nov 20 @ New Village Arts Theater / Carlsbad, CA — HAS BEEN CANCELLED!

* rescheduled for March 10

BLUEGRASS DUEL w/ GET DOWN BOYS // R BAR ((FRIDAY NOV 4)) + DEL MONTE SPEAKEASY // VENICE ((SATURDAY NOV 5))

Coming up!

Fri 11.4 / 10pm @ R Bar (Koreatown - 8th & Irolo)

Bluegrass duel w/ The Get Down Boys - PASSWORD: “F**K IF I KNOW”

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Sat 11.5 / 10pm @ Del Monte Speakeasy (The Townhouse Venice)

West siders, beach combers, part-time gangstahs come on down to our favorite prohibition-era dance hall. DJ Boss Harmony spins 45s till dawn after we are done.

Fresh video up from our show at Redwood in Downtown LA.

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New Album Review ((Blushworthy)) from Fensepost (WA)

Our tune “Holy Ghost Station” was featured in the swell traveling cooking show “The Perennial Plate” ! Check it out, HERE.

GYPSY-SWING APOCALYPSE w/ DUSTBOWL + FISHTANK ENSEMBLE & FRIENDS / KING KING HOLLYWOOD / THURS OCT 20 / 10PM

An auspicious, precocious, bodacious, salacious, redonkulous line-up of gypsy swing killers are slated for King King this Thursday. We’ve been trying to play with Fishtank Ensemble for years and we finally got our chance.

We’ve been fans for a while. The group includes two explosive violins (Fabrice may be one of the top fiddlers in the world right now), the world’s best slap bass player, musical saw, flamenco and gypsy jazz guitar, trombone, opera, jazz and gypsy vocals, accordion and one little banjolele. Tackling everything from French hot jazz to wild Serbian and Transylvanian gypsy anthems, Flamenco, and oddball originals, it’s one of the best live shows we’ve seen in this town.

Our friends AK and Her Kalashnikovs get the stage warm and Califa and Plotz bring their wacky Balkan dance party into the dawn.

We’ll be bringin’ the funk and the flavah at 10pm sharp. Join us, por favor!

FULL LINE-UP HERE

THE CENTRAL (((JAM IN THE VAN + HARMONY PROJECT PARTY))) FRI 10.14 + TASTE OF SOUTH LAKE PASADENA SAT 10.15 12pm + VILLAINS TAVERN 10.15 10pm

Wed 10.12 @ Basement Tavern / Santa Monica / 9pm / FREE

We are back for underground bluegrass night!

Fri 10.14  @ The Central Social Aid & Pleasure Club / Santa Monica / 8pm / 8$

We open up this muscular line-up of local Americana, rock and psychedelia. Hosted by our video renegade friends Jam In The Van, all proceeds go to The Harmony Project, a really great local group that works with underprivileged kids and teaches them music. We’re slated to do a video with these young prodigies soon, stay tuned.

Sat 10.15 @ Taste Of South Lake / Pasadena / 12pm / FREE

The same folks who had us for Make Music Pasadena Fest are back with a great local food and music festival. Get there early for the eats and stay for the beats. We start it at noon.

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Sat 10.15 @ Villains Tavern / Downtown LA / 10pm

Our favorite barn dance in town – grab a mason jar of hooch and swing with us till close.

See below:

+ 10.20 w/ Fishtank Ensemble!!

 

SANTA MONICA DOUBLE SHOT / FINN McCOOL’S PUB FRI 10.7 + BAMFEST SUN 10.9

Would you like some beer with that?

Thought so.

For our westsiders (and you adventurous east siders, valley gals, calabases cowboys) wanting a little Octoberfest + Dustbowl, we have a swell weekend ahead. We return to the rowdy confines of Finn McCool’s Pub on Main St. Friday night. Some of the best hoedown dancing we’ve seen – and you have to be Irish to work behind the bar which was carted directly from Dublin, no joke. These guys don’t mess around. We start at 10pm and roll till close. 200 whiskeys available.

INFO HERE

On Sunday we are proud to be supporting the 18th St. Art Center as they champion a new generation of local artists and craftsmen. Their renown beer, art and music fest (BAM) is back and bigger than ever. Going all day – we close out the party at 5pm. Food and music galore.

First five hundred tickets get a free pint glass. Yeehaw.

TIX + INFO HERE

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Some hot off the presses footage from The Echoplex last week. Full video to come. Don’t try at home, kids. Fiddles can be flammable.