The Old Ceremony April 14, 2006

The Old Ceremony is a pop-noir musical association from Chapel Hill, NC figureheaded by songwriter/raconteur Django Haskins of International Orange (w/ Robert Sledge and Snuzz), and Django & the Regulars. Inspired by the Great American Songbook (and its finest interpreters such as Sinatra and Chet Baker), as well as the theatricality of Tom Waits, Serge Gainesbourg and Nick Cave, The Old Ceremony creates their own shoebox panorama of a world of paper palm trees, unsolved mysteries and unopened air mail. It is distinctly American and faintly exotic.