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Swing With The 9th Street Stompers! at Barking Legs Theater
Courtesy of bruce kaplan | Posted on April 13, 2018
Where
Barking Legs Theater
1307 Dodds Ave.
Chattanooga, TN
Map
423-624-5347
When
Sat, May 12, 2018
8:00 pm
Save the date
Musicians
About
Come Swing with the Stompers on Chattanooga's best dance floor!
The 9th Street Stompers are an outfit of well-dressed no-counts chopping on acoustic instruments and singing about life, death, love, and liquor. Hailing from Chattanooga, Tennessee, they cull up the musical scenery of an era when the lines between swing, gypsy jazz, blues, rockabilly, and tango weren’t nearly as hard and fast as the drinking and dancing. Steering clear of much of the novelty and kitsch associated with pre-war music, they choose to demonstrate the modern relevance of their chosen medium.
With Skip Frontz Jr. furiously slapping the string bass and Lon Eldridge on blues finger-style resonator guitar, ukulele, and kazoo, they share vocal duties. Dalton Chapman is a Gypsy Swing virtuoso who diligently studied the great Django Reinhardt and finally, the always enchanting Sampire swings the brush snare with the grace and finesse of a sultry metronome. If her drumming doesn’t catch your attention, her eyes certainly will....