[Dixielandjazz] 51st Eight..Mighty Aphrodite..Loisianna Joymakers

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I believe Bria's Mighty Aphrodite band will be at the San Diego festival at Thanksgiving.
Rae Ann, San Francisco


> The 51st Eight started as a high school band in Chilliwack and were 
> invited to play at
> the Chilliwack Jazz Fest as a youth group. Chilliwack is in the Fraser 
> River Valley about 60 miles east of Vancouver BC.
> 
> They have come a long way and when I caught their set at the recent 
> Victoria Hot Jazz Party they were playing to standing room only at 
> Herman's Jazz Club. They play good Dixieland and Swing and they have 
> developed a stage presence that will have you laughing along with them. 
> All this with a group that averages about 21 years old.
> 
> Bria Skonberg , a cute 21 year old blond, leads, plays great trumpet, 
> sings and generally instigates the fun. She invited Claire McKenna, a 21 
> year old student from a Washington State college to sit in with them. 
> Claire plays clarinet, sings and you have to hear her scat. The groups 
> reed player, Evan Arntzen, is the grand son of LLoyd Arntzen, the reed 
> man for the Dixieland Express and so grampa got invited to sit in. At 
> that point there were 4 clarinets across the front line.
> 
> Herman has a tradition to present the bands with a round of shooters 
> during their performance and so it was with this group. Out came the 
> baseball caps and being kids they had them on with the bills pointing in 
> every direction. They all joined Herman to sing the verse that goes with 
>   chugging Schnapps and on the count of three, in German, down the 
> hatch. The retching and gagging was hilarious.
> 
> Brea did the introductions for the next tune and all was set. She had 
> her trumpet almost to her mouth and then drew it away while all waited. 
> She reached for a glass of water and to the delight of everyone she took 
> a gulp and proceeded to gargle. We all just about peed (how do you spell 
> peed?) ourselves laughing.
> 
> They will be in Sacramento this month. Do yourselves and them a favor 
> and go see/hear them. They will appreciate it and so will you.
> 
> Len Nielsen
> Victoria BC
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> http://www.the51steight.com/web-content/pages/home.html
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> Bria and Claire will be playing in the upcoming Arizona festival in a band
> called Mighty Aphrodite....in Port Angeles (at the Jazz in the Olympices
> festival) they were part of The Louisianna Joymakers...I think the
> Mighty Aphrodite
> band is an all female group....Louisianna Joymakers has one CD out and
> another
> recorded to be released pretty soon I think....
> Karen Books
> Pacifica, CA
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