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    Big Bad Voodoo Daddy plus Lavay Smith and Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers

    Presented by Broadway Entertainment, LLC/Fox Theatre at Fox Theatre

    February 20, 2009

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    Retro swing, an upbeat celebration of jump blues, big-band dance, and lounge music, emerged as perhaps the most unexpected fad of the 1990s. Along with the Cherry Poppin' Daddies, the Squirrel Nut Zippers, and Brian Setzer, who pioneered the movement with his big band, the Brian Setzer Orchestra, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, or BBVD, are veterans of the scene. This non-elitist pack designed good-time party music for their twenty-something followers,...

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    Retro swing, an upbeat celebration of jump blues, big-band dance, and lounge music, emerged as perhaps the most unexpected fad of the 1990s. Along with the Cherry Poppin' Daddies, the Squirrel Nut Zippers, and Brian Setzer, who pioneered the movement with his big band, the Brian Setzer Orchestra, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, or BBVD, are veterans of the scene. This non-elitist pack designed good-time party music for their twenty-something followers, who preferred dressing in zoot suits, dancing the jitterbug, and sipping martinis to listening to grunge-rock, wearing flannel shirts, and thrashing about in mosh pits. However, acts like Big Bad Voodoo Daddy don't consider themselves as simply a Glenn Miller or Cab Calloway revival band. In fact, they owe as much to punk, ska, and other styles as to the traditional big-band sound. "We play swing from the standpoint of how a band like X might play it, because more than half of us don't have classical training," said BBVD drummer Kurt Sodergren to Mark Binelli of Rolling Stone. "I'm not a jazz drummer, but I know how to swing."

    Lavay Smith is internationally recognized as The Queen of classic Jazz & Blues in the authentic style of the 1940's and 1950's. Lavay's last album received a prestigious 4 & 1/2 Star review in Downbeat magazine and reached the top 10 on the National Billboard Jazz Charts. This sultry chanteuse evokes a sensuous era of Jazz queens and sexy pinups and adds a modern, feminist twist. No wonder Los Angeles Magazine chose her as one of the sexiest people around!


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    2215 Broadway
    Redwood City, CA 94063

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    Phone: 650-369-4119

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