The Souvenairs at the Tropicana Clark County LIbrary

 

The Clark County Library uses its auditorium for all sorts of events and this afternoon's (2:00pm) live show for local jump/jive combo, the Souvenairs was a fine gig to help break the fast of live shows. This "old timey music" combo was only able to play a couple of gigs before COVID hit but is now ready to get back into the swing (literally) of things (if the anti-vaxxers don't f'k things up for all of us) and have several more upcoming shows.

The basic 2 guitar, bass, drums (and occasional piano) group plays a variety of styles, but is big on hep-cat jump-jive - "Alabama Jubilee", "Five Guys Named Moe", "Birth of the Blues", Fats Waller's "Your Feet's Too Big", etc - but throws in a few slower torch song, some blues, ballads, a little Calypso, maybe a touch of Exoctica and whatever else they feel like. The musicians are all top notch and the lead guitarist (sorry, I didn't catch anyone's names except bassist Ruckus and they don't have themselves listed on their FB page) especially caught my eyes and ears (although he was too quiet) with his fleet-fingered, jazzy runs. For this gig they had two female guest singers, which gave another nice flavor to the proceedings.

Fun stuff and I could imagine these cats actually making some money with this as they are truly talented and put on a great show. Dig it!