Mike Denham’s Sunset Café Stompers

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Ilminster Arts Centre

Exciting vintage jazz from 1920s &amp; 30s New Orleans, Chicago &amp; New York!

Performances

Friday night is performance night. We host live music from top artists, including internationally-renowned musicians. Concerts cover a wide range of genres, including jazz, blues, folk, classical, pop and rock music. We also put on plays, talks and more!

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The Sunset Café Stompers are a very popular New Orleans style band from the West Country, led by pianist Mike Denham. Their music is rooted in the bars and bordellos, the dance halls and the street parades of New Orleans in the 1910s and 20s, and later in the clubs and speakeasies of Chicago and New York, as musicians migrated to the big cities to find work.They take their name from a famous jazz-age night-spot on Chicago's notorious South Side. Al Capone owned it, Louis Armstrong starred there. The Stompers play the music of that period - great tunes from Scott Joplin, Irving Berlin, Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller - but the band's wide-ranging book also features songs by artists as different as Patsy Cline, Marilyn Monroe, the Inkspots, Fats Domino... even Elvis. Beneath it all lies that elusive, enthralling beat – the pulse of New Orleans."One of the best bands of its kind in the land" – Just Jazz magazineThe band:Mike Denham - pianoSteve Graham - trumpet/cornetPete Middleton - trombone/arrangerTrevor Whiting - clarinet &amp; saxesKeith Hall - banjo &amp; guitarJohn Coad - drumsPete Ward - bassHamish Maxwell - vocals<a href="https://www.sunsetcafestompers.com" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.sunsetcafestompers.com</a>Tickets: £20 - free to children of 12 and under, accompanied by a paying adult, and students £5Performance starts at 7:30pm, doors from 6:30pm with bar available.

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