Squirrel Nut Zippers tour to Play Ardmore Music Hall 4/25

Since reactivating in mid-2016 the Squirrel Nut Zippers have been performing to packed houses across the country and around the world. As band leader Jimbo Mathus has said since the band’s re-launch, ‘it’s not a reunion, it’s a revival!’ And the revival last year included the band’s first new studio album in eighteen years titled titled Beasts Of Burgundy. The album debuted at #4 on the Billboard Jazz Albums Chart upon its release and the critics raved: “There is, of course, jazz of various stripes (mainly pre-WWII varieties) on this deliciously wide-ranging comeback, but there’s so much more: sounds, identifiable and not, emanating from mysterious times and places, not the least of which is New Orleans, their home base, a land that, forever and still, has a mind of its own.” - via Relix

The touring now continues into 2019 with the band announcing their first set of new tour dates for the year starting April 11th in Maquoketa, Iowa. Tickets for the April shows go on sale this Friday. Between 1995-2000 the Squirrel Nut Zippers sold over three million albums. Their watershed album, Hot (1996) was recorded in the heat of New Orleans, fueled by a smoldering mix of booze and a youthful hunger to unlock the secrets of old world jazz. This passion mixed with klezmer, blues and random bits of contemporary musical leanings became the bands signature style. At the time, there were few other bands inhabiting this space. The album would eventually break free of any “jazz” stereotypes and land on commercial radio, taking the band to remarkable heights for what was essentially an anti-establishment sound.
Years later and through chronicles of every kind, the band has emerged from a lengthy recording hiatus, reinvigorated, reinvested, and rejuvenated. With an all-star cast of New Orleans musicians, the band breathed new life in to the old material, and inspired Mathus to return to the studio to reignite the band’s unique, enigmatic sound.

Grab tickets to the upcoming show at Ardmore Music Hall on Thursday 4/25 with Mighty Joe Castro & The Grava Men:
https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1812482

Watch the band’s recent performance on NPR’s World Café here:
https://www.npr.org/sections/world-cafe/2018/04/17/603228946/squirrel-nut-zippers-on-world-cafe

Squirrel Nut Zippers tour to Play Ardmore Music Hall 4/25

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