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THE HOT SARDINES
hot jazz, dixieland, french chanson & gutbucket blues
Come see us weekly at The Top of the Standard Hotel
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SHOWS
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UPCOMING
- 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. (+ a late-night private party where we'll be joined by a very special guest -- rhymes with Pita Mon Fleece)
- 2/4: Indianapolis: Fox's Pre-Game Superbowl Party Show (yes!)
- 2/6: Launch Gala: Universal Academy of Cassoulet Opens NYC Embassy (encore 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.
- 2/15: Top of the Standard (@ The Standard Hotel), 6-9pm
- 2/17: Top of the Standard (@ The Standard Hotel), 6-9pm
- 2/22: Top of the Standard (@ The Standard Hotel), 6-9pm
- 2/24: Top of the Standard (@ The Standard Hotel), 6-9pm
- 2/25: WIT'S END Flute Bar (Midtown), 8PM
- 2/28: Top of the Standard (@ The Standard Hotel), 6-9pm
- 2/29: Leap Year Day at The Cupping Room Cafe, 8-11PM
- 3/2: Top of the Standard (@ The Standard Hotel), 6-9pm
PAST
- 6/30: Kogeto launch party, SoHo Gallery for Digital Art, 7-10PM (Party invite when you contribute to the amazing Dot via Kickstarter)
- 7/1: The Cupping Room Cafe, 9PM
- 7/8: The Bookstore Speakeasy, Bethlehem PA 8:30PM
- 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.
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Tracks
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VIDEO
- JAZZ PARTY ON A MOVING SUBWAY CAR FROM 1939
ESCAPE TO NEW YORK FEST: SHANGHAI MERMAID AFTERPARTY TENT
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PHOTOS
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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
"…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
- 14 new dates added, babies! http://t.co/j4S18w2i
- Shanghai Mermaid Dragon Ball! Tonight! EPIC! http://t.co/8EufHTpV
- The 'Dines are winding it up for Shanghai Mermaid's Dragon Ball is this Saturday night. See you there! http://t.co/UgRXSedJ
- Help Rockstar Sissy's Kickstarter Campaign. She is raising money to put on a live show of diverse musical acts,... http://t.co/j3xFaorS
- Did you know there's an *ice skating rink* at the Standard Hotel? Do some figure 8s, then warm up with liquor and... http://t.co/jHrepe7r
- Back at the Cupping Room tonight, kiddies! 8-11, no cover. XO
- A recommendation for Thurs night: The very talented Addie Brownlee's annual birthday tribute to Dolly Parton. -Eliz http://t.co/oOFjBJ58
- @willfriedwald then you'll appreciate a little something I have cooking... more on that soon!
- @theskint @RooftopFilms I love Rooftop Films. Thanks for the tip!
- I posted 19 photos on Facebook in the album "Vintage Subway Gig-on-Wheels 2011" http://t.co/62flrR7S
- Standard Hotel. Tonight (and Friday). 6-9pm. Just you, the Sardines, and a 360-degree view of NYC. And booze! http://t.co/2UH0ekiN
- I posted 46 photos on Facebook in the album "Bastille Day, Lincoln Center Midsummer Night Swing" http://t.co/28mHjJo9
- I posted 3 photos on Facebook in the album "Vintage Subway Gig-on-Wheels 2011" http://t.co/QHozHRZE
- The always-incredible Shanghai Mermaid Dragon Ball is barely two weeks away! We can't wait to tear up our favorite... http://t.co/GIHoPrqt
- A 7-yr-old Sammy Davis Jr. sings "You Rascal You," tap dances, holds sandwich the entire time. Love it. Thanks,... http://t.co/XZH8tv9C
- Top of the Standard tonight, 6-9p! Come check out Eddy the Kid's new three-piece suit. http://t.co/zVKJmkRM
- One of my very favorite musicians is at Rockwood on Sat. If you don't know Firehorse (Leah Siegel), you have a... http://t.co/JAgUDJcl
- "And you're the nicest, paradise-est thing I ever knew." #greatlyrics #namethattuneJan 11, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Truth. RT @karmajukebox: @PresHall & @mymorningjacket's JimJames do "St. James Infirmary" @ Carnegie Hall...ghosts coming out of the walls.Jan 09, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
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NEWS
- 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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