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THE HOT SARDINES
hot jazz, dixieland, french chanson & gutbucket blues
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Weekly shows at The Standard Hotel NYC
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SHOWS
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UPCOMING
- 5/11: Top of the Standard (@ The Standard Hotel), 6-9pm (no cover)
- 5/15: Top of the Standard (@ The Standard Hotel), 6-9pm (no cover)
- 5/16: The Cupping Room Cafe, 8-11PM
- 5/18: Top of the Standard (@ The Standard Hotel), 6-9pm (no cover)
- 5/21: LOS ANGELES! Bar Marmont (@ Chateau Marmont), 7:30-9:30p
- 5/25: Top of the Standard (@ The Standard Hotel), 6-9pm (no cover)
- 5/29: Top of the Standard (@ The Standard Hotel), 6-9pm (no cover)
- 5/31: Barbès 10pm
- 6/4: Sud de France Summer Festival Launch Party, Beekman Bar @ South Street Seaport, 7pm. FREE
- 6/16: Louis Armstrong House Museum's Summer With Satchmo Series, TBD
- 6/20: Bryant Park Summer Concert Series 6-7pm
- 7/7: Music & Movies Under the Stars presents: The Hot Sardines & Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris, Fort Lee Park, music at 7pm, screening at 8:30
- 7/25: Old Westbury Gardens Picnic Pops Summer Concert Series 7-9pm
PAST
- 7/14: Lincoln Center's Midsummer Night Swing! Lincoln Center presents Bastille Day with the Hot Sardines. 6:30-9:45PM
- 7/16: the skint's First Annual Brooklyn Bastille Day Bash at Littlefield, Brooklyn, 2-7PM
- 7/21: The Cupping Room Cafe, 8-11PM
- 7/31: CITY WINERY Tribeca, opening for ZAZ, 8PM
- 8/4: The Cupping Room Cafe, 8-11PM
- 8/5-6: Escape to New York Festival: Shanghai Mermaid Afterparty, Southampton, NY, 12AM
- 8/12: The Bookstore Speakeasy, Bethlehem PA 8:30PM
- 8/13: The Bookstore Speakeasy, Bethlehem PA 8:30PM
- 8/19: Piano and vocals at Pera, Midtown NYC 6-9PM
- 8/20: The Farmer's Cabinet, Philadelphia 9PM-1AM PHILLY!
- 8/25: The Cupping Room Cafe, 8-11PM
- 8/27: Wit's End Flute Bar (Midtown), 8PM
- 8/28: Coney Island History Day; afternoon (2-4p)
- 8/31: Lincoln Square's free summer concert series with Music Under New York 1-2PM
- 9/8: Top of the Standard (@ The Standard Hotel), 6-9pm
- 9/9: Steelstacks, Bethlehem, PA, 6pm-7:30pm
- 9/9: Bookstore Speakeasy, Bethlehem, PA 8:30pm-12:30am
- 9/14: Top of the Standard (@ The Standard Hotel), 6-9pm
- 9/15: Top of the Standard (@ The Standard Hotel), 6-9pm
- 9/17: Swing Remix, Basic Ballroom, 8:30pm-1am
- 9/18: Not My Day Job benefit, The Players' Club, 1-6pm
- 9/19: City Winery, opening for the BAD PLUS. 8pm
- 9/19: Fleur's Cabaret feat. Mira Stroika, the Hot Sardines, and performances from new musical Les Enfants de Paris. The Laurie Beechman Theatre (407 W. 42nd St., btw. 9th & 10th), 9:30pm
- 9/20: City Winery, opening for the BAD PLUS. 8pm
- 9/21: Top of the Standard (@ The Standard Hotel), 6-9pm.
- 9/22: The Cupping Room Cafe, 9:30pm
- 9/28: Top of the Standard (@ The Standard Hotel), 6-9pm.
- 9/29: Top of the Standard (@ The Standard Hotel), 6-9pm.
- 9/29: The Cupping Room Cafe, 9:30pm
- 10/4 & 6: Top of the Standard (@ The Standard Hotel), 6-9pm. No cover.
- 10/12: Top of the Standard (@ The Standard Hotel), 6-9pm.
- 10/13: Top of the Standard (@ The Standard Hotel), 6-9pm.
- 10/14: Pera, Midtown NYC 6-9PM
- 10/18: Top of the Standard (@ The Standard Hotel), 6-9pm.
- 10/20: Top of the Standard (@ The Standard Hotel), 6-9pm.
- 10/25: Top of the Standard (@ The Standard Hotel), 6-9pm.
- 10/26: The Cupping Room Cafe, 8-11PM
- 10/27: Top of the Standard (@ The Standard Hotel), 6-9pm.
- 10/29: Shanghai Mermaid - Halloween 10pm-all night. Tickets here.
- 11/1: Top of the Standard (@ The Standard Hotel), 6-9pm.
- 11/4: Top of the Standard (@ The Standard Hotel), 6-9pm.
- 11/8: Top of the Standard (@ The Standard Hotel), 6-9pm.
- 11/11: Club Dominion NIGHT OWLS a Memorial Concert/fundraiser for Diane Naegel, 8pm
- 11/12: New York Swing Dance Society 7PM
- 11/18: Top of the Standard (@ The Standard Hotel), 6-9pm.
- 11/22: Top of the Standard (@ The Standard Hotel), 6-9pm.
- 11/28: 12th Annual Winter's Eve Tree-Lighting at Lincoln Square with Arlo Guthrie & more; 5:30pm. Free
- 11/29: Top of the Standard (@ The Standard Hotel), 6-9pm.
- 12/6: Top of the Standard (@ The Standard Hotel), 6-9pm.
- 12/7: The Cupping Room Cafe, 8pm
- 12/17: Vintage Subway Train Party on Wheels! (@ Second Avenue Platform), 1:30pm.
- 12/21: Top of the Standard (@ The Standard Hotel), 6-9pm.
- 12/23: Top of the Standard (@ The Standard Hotel), 6-9pm.
- 1/10: Top of the Standard (@ The Standard Hotel), 6-9pm.
- 1/13: Top of the Standard (@ The Standard Hotel), 6-9pm.
- 1/17: Top of the Standard (@ The Standard Hotel), 6-9pm.
- 1/18: The Cupping Room Cafe, 8pm
- 1/20: Top of the Standard (@ The Standard Hotel), 6-9pm.
- 1/27: Top of the Standard (@ The Standard Hotel), 6-9pm.
- 1/28: SHANGHAI MERMAID DRAGON BALL 10pm-all night. Tickets here.
- 1/30: THE BOX, headlining the LUPEC (Ladies United for the Preservation of Endangered Cocktails) Party, 8PM (private event)
- 1/31: Top of the Standard (@ The Standard Hotel), 6-9pm.
- 2/4: Indianapolis: Fox's Pre-Game Superbowl Party Show!
- 2/6: Launch Gala: Universal Academy of Cassoulet Opens NYC Embassy (yes!) - Alain Ducasse at Benoit, 7PM (private event)
- 2/10: Top of the Standard (@ The Standard Hotel), 6-9pm
- 2/14: Highline Ballroom, Filthy Gorgeous Valentine Burlesque Spectacular, 8pm.
- 2/14: New Museum Ungovernables Afterparty & Valentine's Day special with Dita Von Teese at the Top of the Standard
- 2/15: Top of the Standard (@ The Standard Hotel), 6-9pm
- 2/17: Top of the Standard (@ The Standard Hotel), 6-9pm (no list, no cover)
- 2/22: MARDI GRAS THROWDOWN. Top of the Standard (@ The Standard Hotel), 6-9pm (no list, no cover)
- 2/24: Top of the Standard (@ The Standard Hotel), 6-9pm (no list, no cover)
- 2/25: WIT'S END Flute Bar (Midtown), 8PM
- 2/28: Top of the Standard (@ The Standard Hotel), 6-9pm (no list, no cover)
- 2/29: Leap Year Day at The Cupping Room Cafe, 8-11PM
- 3/1: The Manderley at the McKittrick Hotel ~ Sleep No More, 10pm
- 3/2: Top of the Standard (@ The Standard Hotel), 6-9pm (no list, no cover)
- 3/6: Top of the Standard (@ The Standard Hotel), 6-9pm (no list, no cover)
- 3/9: Top of the Standard (@ The Standard Hotel), 6-9pm (no list, no cover)
- 3/11: Chicago Home & Housewares Show
- 3/13: Top of the Standard (@ The Standard Hotel), 6-9pm (no list, no cover)
- 3/16: Top of the Standard (@ The Standard Hotel), 6-9pm (no list, no cover)
- 3/21: Top of the Standard (@ The Standard Hotel), 6-9pm (no list, no cover)
- 3/28: Top of the Standard (@ The Standard Hotel), 6-9pm (no list, no cover)
- 3/30: Top of the Standard (@ The Standard Hotel), 6-9pm (no list, no cover)
- 4/6: Top of the Standard (@ The Standard Hotel), 6-9pm (no list, no cover)
- 4/7: Shanghai Mermaid APRIL IN PARIS 5th Anniversary party 9pm-all night. Tickets here.
- 4/9: Jeniviva Birthday Fundraiser at DROM (one set, lots of other entertainment) 8PM
- 4/10: Top of the Standard (@ The Standard Hotel), 6-9pm (no list, no cover)
- 4/13: Top of the Standard (@ The Standard Hotel), 6-9pm (no list, no cover)
- 4/17: Top of the Standard (@ The Standard Hotel), 6-9pm (no list, no cover)
- 4/20: Top of the Standard (@ The Standard Hotel), 6-9pm (no list, no cover)
- 4/22: New York Swing Dance Society 8PM
- 4/24: Top of the Standard (@ The Standard Hotel), 6-9pm (no list, no cover)
- 4/27: Top of the Standard (@ The Standard Hotel), 6-9pm (no list, no cover)
- 5/3: The Manderley at the McKittrick Hotel, 10pm
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ABOUT
- “Tonight was one of those nights where it felt like a band was really kicked up to a new level. The Hot Sardines killed it. ...A revelation.” - Bill Bragin, director of Public Programming for Lincoln Center
In just under three years, the Hot Sardines have gone from their first gig - at a coffeeshop on the last Q train stop in Queens - to headlining at Lincoln Center, where they played to a crowd of 6000 on Bastille Day 2011. They've also opened for the Bad Plus and French gypsy-jazz artist Zaz.
The Hot Sardines sound – wartime Paris via New Orleans, or the other way around – is steeped in hot jazz, salty stride piano, and the kind of music Louis Armstrong, Django Reinhardt and Fats Waller used to make: Straight-up, foot-stomping jazz. (Literally – the band includes a tap dancer whose feet count as two members of the rhythm section). They manage to invoke the sounds of a near-century ago and stay resolutely in step with the current age.
The band was born when a stride piano player (Evan Palazzo) and a singer (Elizabeth Bougerol) met at a jam session advertised on Craigslist. Above a noodle shop on 49th Street, they discovered a mutual love for songs from the 1920s, ’30s and ’40s that no-one really plays anymore. The band gets their French influence two ways, via the early jazz sound of New Orleans and the jazz manouche and French chanson their Paris-born vocalist listened to growing up.
Members of the Sardines collective have worked with a genre-hopping roster that includes Rufus Wainwright, Sufjan Stevens, Lauren Ambrose, Sondre Lerche, Vetiver, Of Montreal, Nicholas Payton, Kurt Elling, Branford Marsalis, the New York and Jerusalem Philharmonics, Slavic Soul Party and the Williamsburg Salsa Orchestra.
A FEW KIND WORDS
"The Hot Sardines play high-energy traditional jazz with a Parisian accent ("Sweet Sue, Just You" actually sounds better in French), and their chief assets are vocalist Elizabeth Bougerol, pianist Evan Palazzo, and clarinetist Jay Rattman, who also plays soprano with a trumpet-like, Sidney Bechet-inspired attack."
-Will Friedwald, The Wall Street Journal
"Killed it."
- Bad Plus drummer David King
“Tonight was one of those nights where it felt like a band was really kicked up to a new level. The Hot Sardines killed it. ...A revelation.”
- Bill Bragin, director of Public Programming for Lincoln Center
"...the most foot-stomping, raucous jazz band in the world."
- The Music Playground
"…a perfect lineup… [They] play the kind of jazz you listen to on your old record player and pretend life is in black and white."
- The Wild Honey Pie
SOME PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS
Lincoln Center's Midsummer Night Swing (headlined Bastille Day 2011)
Opened for the Bad Plus at City Winery, fall 2011
Shanghai Mermaid speakeasy parties & Escape to New York Festival 2011
Opened for Zaz at City Winery, summer 2011
Mastercard's "Priceless" Concert Series
Top of the Standard at the Standard Hotel (regular engagement)
The Manhattan Cocktail Classic Gala
The Sundance Channel's Unleashed
Wit's End parties
Swing House events
Music Under New York/Arts for Transit
The Astor Room
The Campbell Apartment
Winter's Eve Festival at Lincoln Square
The Dizzy Fizz's French Spirits Soiree
The Players Club
Brooklyn Winery
Private events for Dom Pérignon, Thrillist, The Feast and more
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Tweets
- I posted a new photo to Facebook http://t.co/xxOHHVvT
- Angelenos, what are you doing on Monday at 7:30pm? http://t.co/a0irBJ2N
- Did you know the Top of the Standard has a cocktail called the Golden Shower? We're there tonight 6-9! http://t.co/Hv4Kh9nj
- Feels like we haven't been at the Top of the Standard in a while... Back tonight 6-9! http://t.co/QaNOQ47v
- "A tiiiiiiny man!" Bibs holds forth about Hizzoner. (c) Ben Mobley. http://t.co/EIF3zZMO
- We return to the enigmatic MANDERLEY tonight at the McKittrick Hotel. Be there at 10PM. No list, no cover. http://t.co/cgW7WE3n
- Louis Armstrong House is at no. 10... (and the Guggenheim is at no. 11). Have you voted today to help preserve... http://t.co/Eqertxyg
- So why were we playing on the steps of the Met today? It was announced that the Louis Armstrong House Museum is... http://t.co/8P596Z9X
- New video from the Music Playground shoot! Huge thanks to the entire MP/Lodge crew, especially Conor, whose baby... http://t.co/kkUjKrjD
- I posted a new photo to Facebook http://t.co/ggz3qwfw
- Catherine Russell rocking a mashup of Louis Armstrong & Alberta Hunter's versions of Everybody Loves My Baby on WBGO live right this second.Apr 22, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Come to the Top of the Standard tonight, 6-9! In tribute to our BBC gig, Bibs will be intro-ing every tune with a... http://t.co/5sPXWfrw
- @gemini_scorpio Thank you -- Twitter learning curve, much? Hah!
- Thanks! BBC folks were swell. Made me miss my London days! RT @gemini_scorpio: Also, the @hotsardines played. LOOOOVE them, and so did BBC!Apr 20, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- @gemini_scorpio just emailed you about it! can't wait!
- @gemini_scorpio throws one HELL of a party--thank you for including us, luv! http://t.co/BGlLX79fApr 20, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Amazing time playing for BBC America last night! http://t.co/BGlLX79f http://t.co/mkZPK4Ia
- @stuartenyt Hey, welcome! Were you at the BBC last night? Funny, just read your Titanic article the other day. #notenoughlifeboatsApr 20, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
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NEWS
- 1/31/12
HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!
Check out photos from the incredible SHANGHAI MERMAID DRAGON BALL.
Thanks to Juliette Campbell for keeping the underground alive. shanghaimermaid.com
1/13/12
SARDINES AT THE SUPERBOWL? WHAT?
Sardines on a plane! We're playing Fox Broadcasting's pre-party at the Superbowl in Indianapolis. Football and tap dancing -- together at last!
12/18/11
VINTAGE SUBWAY GIG ON WHEELS!
The Sardines turned a 1939 subway car (one of those old cars that the MTA puts back into circulation every yuletide) into a dance party on wheels (well, rails). It was completely amazing. Seriously.
Check out the photos! Watch some video!
10/10/11
TREE LIGHTING: 12TH ANNUAL WINTER'S EVE IN NYC
The Sardines play Winter's Eve, kicking off with a tree-lighting at Lincoln Square. The entertainment includes Arlo Guthrie, Catherine Russell, Christian McBride, Dennis Lichtman's Brain Cloud, Stephane Wrembel Trio, The Hungry March Band and more.
9/27/11
Q: WHAT DO SARDINES AND RUFUS WAINWRIGHT HAVE IN COMMON?
A: They're both part of MasterCard's "Priceless" series. We'll be doing a "priceless experience" concert produced by NBC and LXTV next week. (Also and only semi-related, this may make it easier to stalk Rufus Wainwright, with whom I want to have long, gin-fueled discussions about Judy Garland's oeuvre and the dearth of sousaphone in popular music. -Miz E)
9/14/11
OPENING FOR THE BAD PLUS
At City Winery September 19 and 20. Thrilling! Intimidating!
8/27/11
SARDINES @ STANDARD HOTEL
The Sardines kick off a weekly gig at the Top of the Standard, on the 18th floor of the Standard Hotel. 360-degree views. Curly-maple grand piano. Wednesday & Thursday nights, 6-9p. Also Tuesday the 20th.
8/24/11
SARDINES + EATALY + FATTY CREW + SHAKE SHACK...
Eats galore (Eataly, l'Artusi, Fatty Crew, Shake Shack) + entertainment (yours truly and more) at Not My Day Job, 9/18 at the (amazing) Players' Club.
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8/2/11
SARDINES @ ESCAPE TO NY FEST
Patti Smith, the Postelles, Lissy Trullie, and The Hot Sardines. Okay, not on the same stage. But we're still psyched to be headlining the Escape to NY Festival's afterparty in the Shanghai Mermaid tent on the Shinnecock Reservation on August 5-7. Woohoo!
7/25/11
SHANGHAI'D FOR SALE ON CDBABY
Yippee!
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/thehotsardines
7/22/11
JULY 31 CITY WINERY SHOW SOLD OUT
Which has little to do with the Sardines, but they're still pretty excited. Read about the show here.
7/18/11
SARDINES TO OPEN FOR FRENCH BIG DEAL ZAZ AT CITY WINERY
She's won all kinds of French Grammys, been called "the new Piaf" and is singlehandedly hauling gypsy jazz and chanson into the pop realm. So it's pretty dreamy to have the Sardines open her 7/31 official U.S. album-release show at City Winery. Tickets here.
7/15/11
LINCOLN CENTER ESTIMATES CROWD AT 6000+
Also, Lincoln Center programmer Bill Bragin called the Sardines "a revelation." We're humbled.
7/14/11
THE HOT SARDINES PLAY BASTILLE DAY AT LINCOLN CENTER
Watch video from Midsummer Night Swing on the Lincoln Center blog.
7/13/11
SHANGHAI'D: THE ALBUM IS HERE!
The Hot Sardines' debut album SHANGHAI'D will go on preview sale tomorrow at the Midsummer Night Swing show at Lincoln Center. Look for the merch table near the coat check.
Info on digital downloads and official release to come!
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