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We've just been named "Best Band 2008" by Connecticut Magazine! (as well as being named "Best Old School R&B/Swing Band" in the
2007 Hartford Advocate Readers Poll,"Best Vocal Group 2007", "Best Vocal Group 2006", & "Best Dance Band 2005" by Connecticut Magazine!
Our next public dates:
Thu 8/14
Outdoor Show
Saltonstall Park
149 Main St.
(next to Town Hall)
6:30-8
Watertown, MA
Info:617-972-6486
www.watertownlib.org
Fri 8/15
Swing 46 Jazz & Supper Club
349 W. 46th St.
(betw 8th & 9th Ave.)
in Restaurant Row in the Theatre District
New York, NY
9:30-1
Dine & dance at this beautiful elegant supper club!
212-262-9554
www.swing46.com
Sat 8/16
Pequot Inn
Fisher's Island, NY
11pm-2:30 am
Jump into your boat & sail 7 miles off the coast of New London to this playground of the rich!
Have a wonderful dinner there and dance into the wee hours w/us!
Info: 631-788-7246
pequotinn@yahoo.com
Dear Fans: Need some hip vintage
clothes for your next swing dance?
Check out my baby sister
(and former ETTB lead singer)
Todd Lyon's new store, FASHIONISTA
33 Church St. New Haven, CT
203-777-4434
www.fashionista-vintage-variety.com
(see below)
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BIG NEWS!
CD Design/Layout:
James Pettus Illustrations: Eric Panke
OUR LATEST CD, "CALLING ALL ICKEROOS!" IS HERE!
LISTEN TO OUR SOUND CLIPS! Buy it (or any other of our 10 CDs) at our gigs or our web site by clicking on "discography". It's being played on 24 stations nationwide, including:
WVSU Birmingham, AL
KXJZ/KUOP Sacramento, CA
KSDS San Diego, CA
KVNF Paonia, CO
WPKN Bridgeport, CT
WVOF-Upper Room Fairfield, CT
WWUH Hartford, CT
WLRN Miami, FL
WUCF-FM Orlando, FL
KSHK-Kauai, HI
WICN Worcester, MA
WGVU Grand Rapids, MI
WLNZ Lansing, MI
WCMU Midland, MI
KBEM Minneapolis, MN
WITR Rochester, NY
WAER Syracuse, NY
WXTS Toledo, OH
WXUT Toledo, OH
KMHD Portland, OR
WJZS Newport, RI
WUMR Memphis, TN
WTJU Charlottesville, VA
WHRV Norfolk, VA
WWSP Stevens Point, WI
and Radio 2 (Blues 94.1)-
in Skopje, Macedonia(!)
Tune in and listen!
Don't miss these special upcoming public shows! Keep scrolling down! (more details in "Show Dates")
For a complete listing of our shows, see Show Dates
Wed 8/20
Outdoor Show
Baldwin Park
Rte 6
Plymouth, CT
6-8pm
Thu 8/21
"Music & Dancing at the Towers"
(E. Coast & W. Coast show)
35 Ocean Rd.
Narragansett, RI
7-10pm
401-782-2597
www.thetowersri.com
Fri 8/22
Point Breeze
Point Breeze Rd.
approx 8:30-11:15
Webster, MA
508-943-0404
Have a gourmet dinner at this beautifully renovated restaurant on the lake & dance to our music on their spacious dance floor!
Thu 8/28
Outdoor Show
Totoket Valley Park
Rte 22
Northford, CT
7-9pm
Fri 8/29
Chowder Pot
(mostly Motown)
Rte 1
Branford, CT
9:30-1
203-481-2356
Sat 8/30
Hanabi
(new club!)
(formerly Jamie's)
804 Plain St.
Rte 139
Marshfield, MA
9:30-1
781-837-3328
This new restaurant will feature Japanese cuisine as well as Asian fusion- and live music!
Join us at our premier performance!
Mon 9/1
Our annual
Labor Day Bash at
Captain's Cove!
1 Bostwick Ave.
Bridgeport, CT
3:30-7
Outdoors or in
Call club first
if weather is "iffy"!
203-335-7104
www.captainscoveseaport.com
Celebrate the last blast of summer w/us on their HUGE wooden deck!
Fri 9/5
Maple Tree!
(mostly Motown)
781 Hopmeadow St.
(rte 10)
9:45-1:15
Simsbury, CT
860-651-1297
Enjoy a wonderful dinner indoors or on their beautiful deck & dance the night away!
www.mapletreecafe.com
Sun 9/7
"A Taste of Mystic"
Cottrell St.
Mystic, CT
2:30-4:30 (approx)
860-572-9578
www.mysticchamber.org
Fri 9/12
Outdoor Show!
Kickoff for
Cheshire Fall Fest!
Bartlem Park
Route 10
(opp. Cheshire HS)
Cheshire,CT
7:30-9:30pm
www.cheshirechamber.com
Sun 9/14
Bulkeley House
Bank St.
New London, CT
8-11:30
860-444-7753
Have a wonderful dinner on their huge new covered pavilion!
Thu 9/18
Wolf Den at
Mohegan Sun
(Motown show!)
Uncasville, CT
7-11pm
www.mohegansun.com
Fri 9/19
Benefit Dance for the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation
Franco American Club (French Club)
40 Barlow St.
Bristol, CT
8-12
This is a dance benefit to raise funds for the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation, an organization dedicated to finding cures for spinal cord injury.
Please come out and dance the night away with us while helping this very worthy cause!
Tix: $20
More info:
Contact Diane Brooks at frozenmargarita@comcast.net
or Mandy Darnell at MDarnell@christopherreeve.org
Fri 9/26
Black-eyed Sally's
350 Asylum
Hartford, CT
9:30-12:30
Come have some of their wonderful Southern cooking & see our show!
www.blackeyedsallys.com
Sunday, September 28
"SWING SUNDAYS"
K of C Hall
279 Quinnipiac St.
Wallingford, CT
4-7pm
203-269-5510
$10; $8 for students (w/id) or seniors (age 65 & over)
5000 sq. ft wooden dance floor!
Cash bar selling everything from bottled water to chips, popcorn, sodas, etc.
More info:
203-484-4749 (Eight to the Bar)
or ettb2@comcast.net
Dear Fans: We are trying this out on an experimental basis. In order for it to work the hall has requested that the audience NOT bring their own beverages or food but instead purchase them at the bar. If it is successful, we will have a dance on the last Sunday of each month but ONLY if you support the bar! Bottled water, sodas, chips, popcorn, etc. will be available for sale at the bar (along with alcoholic beverages).
Directions:
From New Haven & points South: 91 North to exit 13. Go right at light onto rte 5 North. At 6th light take left onto Quinnipiac ST. Go 1/4 mile and when you see Citgo gas station on right, take right 3 doors down into driveway for the hall
OR take Wilbur Cross Parkway North. Take exit 64. Go right off exit ramp. Go under Parkway. At 3rd light, stay left of park. Hall on left. Driveway to right of building.
From Hartford and points North: Take Wilbur Cross Parkway (rte 15) South. Take exit 64. Go right off exit ramp. At 2nd light stay left of park. Hall on left. Driveway to right of building.
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