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Occurs on Wednesday September 20 2017

Approximate running time: 2 hours

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Whidbey Island Center for the Arts
565 Camano Avenue
Langley WA 98260

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More than fifteen years ago, hot-jazz string band Hot Club Sandwich was founded in Olympia, WA. With two guitars, bass, violin, mandolin, and drums, each band member is also a contributing composer and arranger, and everyone in the band sings. The forthcoming fifth Hot Club Sandwich recording No Pressure features a title track by the group’s 74-year-old guitarist Ray Wood and a guest appearance by mandolinist David Grisman. As the name suggests, the Hot Club Sandwich repertoire carries a reverence for Gypsy Jazz along with folkloric influences from around the world that flourished during the same era. In some cases, the band has been known to venture into Western twang territory, including in collaboration with the late legend Dan Hicks.

OPENED BY ERIC VANDERBILT-MATTHEWS' ALL STARS: A Whidbey native, Eric has been coming to DFNW as a fan since the beginning. Over the past several years he would join the jams at DFNW, strengthening his improvisational skills. Last year, Eric had his first chance to perform in the festival as a sideman with Ranger and the Re-Arrangers and the Hot Club of Troy. This year he was asked to perform as a leader, so he set forth to assemble an all star band of epic players from across the continent.

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