Party: Pigfoot - Bright Side of Life Festival Club
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Date: 10.04.2015 23:00
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PIGFOOT TO MAKE THEIR IRISH DEBUT AT THE BRIGHT SIDE OF LIFE
Don't wait until someone tells you it was amazing.
The spirit of Bessie Smith and antique jazz is alive and kicking as Pigfoot make their first appearance in Sligo and Ireland at the
inaugural Bright Side of Life comedy festival presented by Spike Sligo, appearing at 5th on Teeling on Friday 10 April.
Part of a pulsating wave of new jazz outfits intent on tackling trad in all its forms Pigfoot subvert the form, and the norm, in their own ingenious way
while respecting the quirks and mores and, above all, the joy of the 1920s style.
Bringing their own customised version of 21st century acid trad (conveniently the title of their debut album) to Sligo and Ireland for the first time, a
concept zany enough, you would imagine, to satisfy former trad trumpeter Spike Milligan himself, the four piece of trumpeter/cornetist Chris
Batchelor, pianist Liam Noble, tubaist extraordinaire Oren Marshall from the MOBO-winning Sons of Kemet, and drummer Paul Clarvis got
together in 2013 to record their debut album live at London’s redoubt of the avant grade, the Vortex in Dalston. You’ll never hear anyone else play
‘Basin Street Blues,’ ‘12th Street Rag,’ ‘Jitterbug Waltz,’ or ‘Tennessee Waltz’, quite like Pigfoot do them.
A trad band to make traditionalists blink and think again while at the same time challenging modernists to reassess just what their hang-ups about the
music actually were in the first place.
Pigfoot’s appearance is part of the Bright Side of Life, Spike Sligo’s debut comedy festival, which runs from 8-12 April and includes the headlining
appearance of Richard Herring. The Spike Sligo jazz festival club, presented in association with the Sligo Jazz Project who celebrate their tenth
anniversary this year, runs over three nights at 5th on Teeling. Acts appearing include, in addition to Pigfoot, the David Lyttle band launching new
album Faces and who perform on 11 April, while the Brian Priestley quartet featuring the Dublin City Jazz Orchestra’s Ciaran Wilde and David
Lyttle perform on 12 April.
For more details go to: http://www.spikesligo.com
Invited: Michael Caheny, Denise Rushe, Cormac Carroll, Eddie Lee, Adam Cullen, Jack Cawley, David Fahey, Laurborg Hunt, Ciara Mc Cormac, Dale Barber, Daniel Mc Garrigle, Ita Callagy, Leonie Carty, Daniel Chester, Lisa Cannon, Marc Gallagher, Chelsea O'Connor, Donal Gunne, Christopher Alexander Bent, Peter Crann, Helen Sharp, Christian Talbot, Kitty La Wintour, Blaithin Sweeney, Kerri-Anne Fitzpatrick, Brian Vickers, Conor Mcginley, Lisa Hallinan, Paul Cunningham, Bern Deegan, Teresa Coyne, Aine Gallagher, Cathy Lynch, Killian Foley, Conor Lynch, Aurélie Frioux, James Dennison, Fionnuala Carter, Thorsten Kahlert, Clíona Tinsley, Emily Byrne, Arlene Mc Morrow, Breda Kelly, Oliver Alcorn, Hedda Hannah, Tara McGowan, Batrick Pyrne, Breffni Gorman, Cormac Mac Conville, Alicia Rybicka, Mark Willis, Aoife Flynn, Susanne Bach, Robbie Bonham, Lara Byrne, Alan Irwin, Jaimie Carswell, Peter Clyne, JohnPaul Feehily, Alan Roberts, Aileen Concannon, Ali Ganley, Robert Cullen, Colin Mc Keown, Craig Adams, Jim Meehan, Celeste Pelzer, Maurice Gannon, Glens Centre, Sarah Barry, Michael 'Tank' Allen, Val Robus, Conwedge Flanway, Áine Cryan, Tiffany Budd, Stephen Cleary, Martina Henry, Shane Leonard, Cían Coyne, Beth O Hara, Paul Barr, Dina Coughlan, Simon Hunt, Stephen Butcher, James Connolly, Cían Flynn, Philip Brett, Brendan Tierney, Conal Carr, Arden Reilly, Aidan Strangeman, Declan Feenan, Cathy Quinlan, Tabby Callaghan, Marketa Formanova, Kenny Byrne, Kieran Quinn, Pauric Gallagher, Peter Barter, Al Porter show more »
