Cats and Jammers

Pet cats and Jammers formed in 1986 in the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Bay region. Tony Marcus and Kevin Wimmer performed a gig collectively, taking pleasure in their twin golf swing fiddle audio. They taken in Piper Heisig on bass and Sylvia Herold on acoustic guitar to complete the sound. These were united by their like from the Boswell Sisters, the Mills Brothers and additional giants of vocal and little group golf swing. Eventually Wimmer experienced to move from your San Francisco region as well as the group made the decision that they sounded simply fine like a trio. A long time before the golf swing revival, Pet cats and Jammers had been driving with their gigs inside a 1940 Buick and dressing towards the nines in period clothes. Moreover, they revived early golf swing where it matters -in the music. They didn’t relax the music a whit, as a lot of nostalgia groups are inclined to doing. They are able to play nice and warm and there aren’t that lots of organizations today that make that happen. There’s a gratifying stability between Herold’s obvious, calling soprano, Heisig’s bluesy alto, and Marcus’ enjoyable, warm baritone. Pet cats and Jammers possess a smooth ensemble sound, even though these are blue-blowing (vocal imitation of musical instruments, esp. brass musical instruments) together. These are no slouches with regards to their musical instruments either. Heisig and Marcus are multi-instrumentalists, and everything three are used in bands furthermore to Felines and Jammers. They possess impeccable flavor in cover music, dredging up some genuine gems like “Mene Mene Tekel” and “Atomic Cocktail.” Although they focus on the past due 30s and early ’40s, they have already been proven to take in afterwards tunes aswell. Felines and Jammers provides appeared on the Centrum Popular Jazz Celebration in Washington, Strawberry Music Celebration in California, the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Jazz Festival as well as the Dark Mountain Celebration in NEW YORK. The group makes periodic forays to even more far-flung states, but also for the most component stays for the Western world Coastline when it travels. Felines and Jammers produces CDs independently label, Tuxedo, and will end up being reached at [email protected].