SWING the NIGHT AWAY!!! Saturday, November 17 7:30Pm to 11:15Pm
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SWING THE NIGHT AWAY!!! Saturday, November 17 7:30pm to 11:15pm www.eighttothebar.com Hibernian Hall 151 Watertown Street Watertown, MA Band starts playing at 8:00 pm Large Dance Floor Ample Free Parking EIGHT TO THE BAR Swing with Eight to the Bar. Voted Best Band in Connecticut in 2018 by Hartford 2018 Readers Poll. Their music is a colorful mix of forties, jive, fifties, and sixties thru eighties. Their arrangements include swing, jazz, blues, doo wop and Motown, Their sax player, Colin Tilton, is the original sax player with Van Morrison. Cash Bar Sponsored by Sitzundjibers Admission $25 at the door (Singles Social Club) Shrimp cocktail, pizza and deli sandwiches will and Boston Premier Social Club (Meetup) be provided when the band takes their break. Listening to Eight to the Bar is a lot like driving along a time-warped highway precisely halfway between Count Basie's Kansas City and Fats Waller's Harlem, where the car radio picks up everything from Jumpin’ at the Woodside to The Andrews Sisters. Their material, like their outlandish wardrobes and onstage choreo, is a colorful mix of forties jazz and swing, fifties jump blues, and their own swing-influenced tunes. With their female vocals, saxophone (their sax player, Collin Tilton, is Van Morrison’s original sax and flute player and he played on Morrison’s quadruple-platinum-selling Moondance album), guitar, bass, keyboards and drums, this unique sextet pack a musical and visual wallop not seen in New England since the group's inception in 1975. Since that time they have released 12 CDs and have excited audiences from Europe to the Caribbean. The band has been named “Best All Around Band” by the CT Now Readers’ Poll 2018 and recently had the honor of touring the Republic of Georgia (near Russia) at the invitation of the U.S. Embassy there. Currently the group has released its 12th CD, Bring It & Swing It!.