Dustbowl returns at last to McCabe’s in Santa Monica for a night of old-time goodness. After a sold out show for our record release we have some more surprises in store – and another swing super-group will be joining us, The California Feetwarmers!
How many horns will be blowing on the stage at once? Who will win the battle of swing supremacy? Only you can decide. Please don’t miss this. Seating is first come first served.
Z’s Bday Show @ Villains Tavern (Fri Mar 2 / Downtown LA / 10pm)
Your esteemed professor of mayhem and swing, Zach Dustbowl’s the lead singer, writer, guitar slinger, kazoo buzzer and all around amiable fellow will be turning 27. Buy him some wine, dance till you feel fine.
THE DUSTBOWL REVIVAL RETURNS TO SAN FRANCISCO / FEB 17-19
Yessiree, we are firing up the van and heading north for the long weekend. Always love playing music in the bay and wethinks this will be the best trip yet. More details to come – but here’s the highlights. If you have friends up yonder or feel like a road trip – spread the word!
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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!
