Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Last week was "off the hook"! Steve Lucky and the Rhumba Bums - featuring Miss Carmen Getit brought down the house! And our own Charleston All Stars were awesome! Can you believe they learned that routine in just four weeks?!? We had tons of visitors as well as plenty of our regulars. Thank you for all of your support. And, a big thanks to the Northern California Lindy Society for their support of this event! We look forward to bringing you even more great events!

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Event Details

Live Bands are back at Wednesday Night Hop! Wednesday Night Hop and event sponsor NCLS (Northern California Lindy Society) are proud to welcome Steve Lucky & The Rhumba Bums featuring Miss Carmen Getit to our new home at the Starlite!

Come join the fun as Wednesday Night Hop kicks off our new series classes with jump blues, swing, jazz and rare gems inspired by the '30s, '40s and '50s played by the awe-inspiring Steve Lucky & The Rhumba Bums featuring Miss Carmen Getit! Come on out for this fabulous night of dancing and entertainment!

Trevor and Megan taught a Charleston performance class that will be debuting all of their hard work so come on out and support Wednesday Night Hop's "Charleston All Stars"!

Steve Lucky & The Rhumba Bums were among the first neo-swing bands to modernize and re-invent the jump swing genre while staying true to their musical roots. With a warm and loving sound that would please Louis Jordan, they manage to convey a sense of cool hipness through their fun, playful music. Led by the mischievous Steve Lucky on piano and vocals and the vivacious Miss Carmen Getit on lead guitar and vocals, the band's chemistry is hot enough to melt metal. They are an amazing band with an amazing horn and rhythm section that can't be beat.

Called "Instant Crowd Favorites" by the San Francisco Blues Festival and "Consummate musicians and entertainers" by New York City's Lincoln Center, Lucky and Getit really shine before a live audience, bringing an intense energy and sheer personal magnetism to the stage, exercising wit in a continuous battle of the sexes. They've earned a reputation as captivating entertainers with "superior musicianship" (Downbeat), engaging audiences at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, the Half Note Jazz Club in Athens, Greece, the San Francisco Blues Festival, as the house band at the Derby in Hollywood, and hundreds of nightclubs, festivals, and performing arts centers around the world.

Come join the party on Wednesday, August 6th! The next lindy hop series will be starting so sign up for the series or drop in and join the classes. More details on Lindy Hop lessons »

Schedule:

 

Pricing:

7:00 - 8:00pm — Level 2 $15 drop-in Details »
8:00 - 9:00pm — Level 1 $15 drop-in Details »
9:00 - Midnight — Swing Dance Party: only $10

Location:

Starlite Dance Club
1160 N. Fair Oaks Ave (at Tasman Dr)
Sunnyvale, CA 94089
408-745-7827
Directions »

Starlite Dance Club is one of the largest and most beautifully constructed dance clubs in the country. It is conveniently located just off Hwy. 101 between San Jose and San Francisco in Sunnyvale, California. Come out and socialize and swing the night away at this spectacular venue!

 

More on Steve, Carmen & the Rhumba Bums

Steve Lucky started playing piano at age eight and was playing and singing professionally by the time he was thirteen. He founded and led the six-piece Blue Front Persuaders through the '80s, playing swing, jump-blues, and '40s and '50s R & B. In 1987 Lucky moved to New York City to play keyboards for Grammy award-winning guitarist and vocalist Johnny Clyde Copeland. During the next five years he was active in the Greenwich Village music scene, was hired to score performance art and theater, and performed with a diverse group of musicians including Joan Osborne, Blues Traveler, and the Spin Doctors.

In 1993 Steve Lucky moved to San Francisco and started the Rhumba Bums as a quintet, but admits the band really took shape in '94 with the addition of Miss Carmen Getit on vocals and guitar.

In Carmen's powerful vocals, one can hear echoes of her idols Ruth Brown, Etta James, and Dinah Washington. Miss Getit is a dynamic performer and versatile vocalist, interpreting "slick jazz a la Dinah Washington" or shouting down-and-out blues according to the Ann Arbor Observer.

The band is rounded out with some brilliant musicians including Scott Petersen, Matt Cowan and Doug Rowan on saxophones, Brian Fishler on drums, and Lukas Vesely on bass. They have performed and recorded with a diverse group of musicians including jazz greats Joe Williams, Dizzy Gillespie, Rosemary Clooney, Weather Report's drummer/percussionist Alex Acuna, classical clarinetist Richard Stoltzman, reggae legends The Abyssinians and Don Carlos, and pop stars Aretha Franklin, The Four Tops and the Temptations. Their accomplishments include jazz scholarships to the Berklee School of Music in Boston, and jazz faculty positions at the Stanford Jazz Workshop and Oakland University.

Steve Lucky & the Rhumba Bums appeared on CNN's "Showbiz" with Jim Moret, PBS' "CD Highway", a Bravo! documentary "This Joint Is Jumpin'!", "Locals Only" on FOX, and on CBS' Good Morning America. Look for the Rhumba Bums in "Be Cool", MGM's sequel to "Get Shorty" in 2005. Read more about the bands credentials and impressive biography at the LuckyLounge.com »

 

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