FROG & HENRY

Laurin Habert, reeds | George Aschmann, violin & vocals | Matthieu Meyer, piano | Ryan Baer, guitar & banjo, vocals | Jack Buttler, tuba | Ewan Bleach, reeds & vocals

Frog & Henry by Almira Khafizova

Vintage-flavored “string and brass band”: the sound people danced to in New Orleans 120 years ago

We welcome back the Winners of the 2022 AET My Choice Audience Award!
Formed in New Orleans as a collective of several street performing groups,
Frog & Henry perform and record old dance and jazz music from the early 1900’s on brass and string instruments, with nearly every instrumentalist contributing to vocals. Most of our repertoire is dug up from forgotten songs dating to the dawn of recorded music, in the form of early dance tunes, or from even earlier 19thc sheet music.

“We’ve borrowed the phrase ‘string and brass band’ from the descriptions of the earliest New Orleans dance and jazz bands; and in that tradition we feature violin and mandolin-banjo as melody instruments alongside clarinet, alto and baritone saxophone.”  The band  also designed and built a foot-operated tuba that allows one person to play tuba and six-string banjo simultaneously. 

Frog & Henry
20 – 29.6 2024

AET-MY CHOICE AUDIENCE AWARD WINNER 2022

From:
USA

Style:
Trad Jazz, Dixieland

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