Bands
Shuffletones
We know and love our roots but like to put a modern twist on it. Our music leaves you with the blues lingering inside for a long time. We make our audience a big part of the show. We want everyone to feel what we do when we are up there performing. Soon, hopefully, we'll be playing in a city near you!
Solomon Douglas Swingtet
The Solomon Douglas Swingtet is an eight-piece dance band whose repertoire of blues-dancing music is rooted in the vintage slow-drags of Duke Ellington and Sidney Bechet, and the big-band blues of Count Basie and Erskine Hawkins, with some groovy jazz and soul ballads thrown in to round out the mix. Past blues dance events where this band has played include the Emerald City Blues Festival (Seattle, 2005, 2008 and 2009), the Blues n Soul Experience (Orlando, 2008), and at the Jook Joint Blues late-night party at BABBLE (New York, 2009). The band is led by Solomon Douglas, who is a well-known blues dance instructor and DJ in addition to being in high demand as a piano player and bandleader.