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Squirrel Nut Zippers

The Squirrel Nut Zippers are credited as part of the brief swing music revival of the 1990s. The group incorporated a broad range of music including Harlem Hot Music, Delta Blues, klezmer and 1930s-era swing. While the band’s eclectic musical style made them hard to categorize during their rise to stardom, their quirky, highly danceable form of music found a niche in the late 1990s.

The band still rejoices at the difficulty people have in pigeonholing their unmistakable sound. A rich, hybrid-stew of Southern roots traditions, the Zippers have always flirted with a muse most concerned with ghosts, fever-dreams, love gone wrong and characters that seemed to have been torn from the pages of a long forgotten novel. Centered around the beguiling vocals of Katherine Whalen and the anachronistic windup toy that is Jimbo Mathus, the Zippers promise to both charm and confound.

And so, the band that brought the world Perennial Favorites, Hot, Bedlam Ballroom, and The Inevitable are on the road together again. Featuring original and founding members Katherine Whalen, Jimbo Mathus, Chris Phillips, Je Widenhouse and Stuart Cole - the Squirrel Nut Zippers perform selections from the entire catalog, plus new songs and the occasional cover.


 

 

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