The Christmas Jug Band with Special Guests Bonnie Hayes and Beso Negro December 15, 2011

ALL AGES EVENT

It's almost that time of year, and for the first time this year, the Christmas Jug Band threatens to lighten the door of George's. This irreverent crew of stalwart purveyors of the juga-billy mystique is a seasonal assemblage of misfits of Commander Cody alumni and others from various notable Bay Area musical aggregations.

What got started from a Wild Turkey-inspired momentary lapse of sanity is now, four albums and 30 years of fruitcakes later, an unconventional holiday tradition of highly skewed merriment. One never knows exactly what form this 100% acoustic folk-skiffle-swing jug band will take from one season to the next, but those who attend will get a full dose of tongue-in-cheek holiday “highjinks.”

Opening this show will be an electric set by Beso Negro! They have an all-star lineup of internationally experienced musicians who have brought drive and passion to Gypsy Jazz. Taking the hint dropped by the likes of The Pogues, Gogol Bordello and Flogging Molly, Beso Negro has transformed a genre into a vibrant new beast. Darker, faster, more danceable, more blues, more Gypsy, Beso Negro's indelible fingerprint brings Jazz Manouche to a new generation and to the 21st century.

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