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Jim Kweskin, The Stomp Street Serenaders

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Dates:Thursday, January 30, 2025 - Thursday, January 30, 2025
Hours:Hours Vary see below
Ages:Kids, Teens, Adults
In/Outdoor:Indoor
Cost:$ see below
Category:Music & Concerts
JIM KWESKIN is the founder of the legendary 1960s Jim Kweskin Jug Band with Fritz Richmond, Geoff Muldaur, Maria Muldaur, Mel Lyman and Bruno Wolfe.

During the five years they were together, they successfully transformed the sounds of pre-World War II rural music into a springboard for their good-humored performances.

Their imitators were legion, including a San Francisco jug band that became the Grateful Dead, a Los Angeles jug band that became the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, and a New York jug band that became the Lovin' Spoonful.

No other group attained their unique blend of youthful energy and antiquarian expertise, tight musicianship, loose camaraderie, and infectious swing.

These days Jim is best known as a singer and bandleader, but he also created one of the bedrock guitar styles of the folk revival, adapting the ragtime-blues fingerpicking of artists like Mississippi John Hurt and Pink Anderson to the more complex chords of pop and jazz.

He has maintained a remarkably consistent musical vision since his jug band days, continuing to explore traditional folk and blues with the sophisticated sensibility of a jazz musician, and jazz with the communal simplicity of a folk artist.

He has recorded many solo ventures, as a member of the U and I band, with band-mate Geoff Muldaur, with Samoa Wilson, with The Texas Sheiks as well as performing and recording with a wide variety of well-known musicians such as Maria Muldaur, John Sebastian, David Grisman, Cindy Cashdollar, Happy Traum, Meredith Axelrod, Juli Crockett and Samoa Wilson, to name a few.

THE STOMP STREET SERENADERS is a Boston based trio that draws from the interlocking repertoires of early 20th century jazz, blues and popular music.

The group is made up of violinist Michele Zimmerman, guitarist Roman Barten-Sherman and clarinetist Itay Dayan.

The three formed as a group at New England Conservatory under the tutelage of early jazz scholar, Anthony Coleman.

The Stomp Street Serenaders breathe new life into the songs of yesteryear, through their virtuosic instrumentalism, heartfelt vocals and fiery collective improvisation.

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Doors: 6:00 pm
Showtime: 7:00 - 9:00 pm


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Advanced: $30 | Day of Show: $35

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tickets.24hourmusic.com/eventperformances.asp?evt=1511

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247 Elm Street, Somerville, MA, 02144 map
Phone: 6177766896

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