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Music Network Presents Hot Club Of Cowtown at Droichead Arts Centre

Courtesy of Music Network | Posted on October 14, 2016

Where

Droichead Arts Centre
Stockwell Street
Drogheda
Map
0419833946

When

Sat, October 29, 2016
20:30

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Musicians

Whit Smith
guitar, acoustic

About

For two decades Hot Club of Cowtown have been setting stages ablaze with their intoxicating blend of jaw-dropping virtuosity and down-home melodies, weaving together country, ragtime, big band jazz and blues to awesome effect. Based in Austin, Texas, the globetrotting trio are long-serving musical ambassadors for the US State department, bringing a barrel of joy to venues from Azerbaijan to the Sultanate of Oman, while touring with everyone from Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson to Roxy Music.

Oozing warmth and charm, bassist Jake Erwin, guitarist Whit Smith and fiddler Elana James use every trick in the book to get those feet tapping: playing loose with tempos or ratcheting up the intensity with fretboard-blistering guitar licks, virtuosic fiddling and a Rockabilly-tinged slap-bass style...

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