Jazz Age Rumpus w/ Miss Myra & The Moonshiners, Southside Aces, and more!

Revel in a day of 1920s and 30s Jazz! Year two of the festival celebrates the birthday of the great stride pianist Fats Waller. The music of Kid Ory, one of the first trombone greats of Jazz. The guitar duets of Lonnie Johnson and Eddie Lang, extraordinary for both their virtuosity and the story of how they came together. And finally, the rare treat of hearing the songs of the Boswell Sisters—the New Orleans harmony singing trio who inspired the Andrews Sisters and all the trio singers to come.

Featuring

Southside Aces

Miss Myra & The Moonshiners

Spruce Top Duo

Trevin Roming

The Beaujolais Sisters

A portion of proceeds will support Hopewell Music Cooperative North whose mission is to improve access to music education in North Minneapolis through affordable, inclusive and engaging music programs.

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Southside Aces

For twenty years the Southside Aces have performed the music of Jazz Age greats such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Fats Waller, to name a few. They’ve played for clubs, dancers, and festivals in the Twin Cities and throughout the midwest, including the 50th Anniversary Bix Beiderbecke Jazz Festival in the summer of 2021. They’ve released eight albums of jazz including their newest, Minneapolis Bump, featuring all originals in the traditional style.

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Miss Myra & The Moonshiners

Miss Myra and The Moonshiners are a formidable 5-piece swing band from Minneapolis, MN with a fresh sound grounded in early jazz and blues. Playing original music amid a broad repertoire of classics from the ‘20s and ‘30s, they have developed a singular style that delights audiences and dance halls with the spirit of a musical tradition at its centennial. The group has made appearances at Bayfront Blues Festival, Fargo Blues Fest, Sioux Falls Jazz Festival, among others.

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Spruce Top Duo

Spruce Top Duo is made up of Miss Myra Myra and Fitzgerald Palmer, two guitar players on the twin cities scene with a heart for swing guitar from the 20s and 30s. From their debut performance at the Lowertown Guitar Festival in August of 2021, Miss Myra and Fitzgerald Palmer have become a vintage guitar sensation, playing for block parties, composing music for silent film, and have even been featured in a promotional video for the famed Carter Vintage Guitars in Nashville.

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The Beaujolais Sisters

Singer, choral composer/arranger, and choir director Randi Grundahl Rexroth took the deep dive into figuring out the amazing intricacies of the harmonies of the Boswell Sisters upon the first moment she heard one of their records fifteen years ago. She formed the Beaujolais Sisters, and in their hands the music of the “Bozzies” comes to life.