[Dixielandjazz] Last Minute Gig Alert

[Stephen G Barbone]

Just a quick heads up on a Barbone Street Trio gig tomorrow night. We  
are subbing for young Drew Nugent who is the resident player. Friday  
Night, Aug 12, from 9 PM to 1 AM.

Farmers Cabinet
1113 Walnut Street  (between 11 and 12th Sts, across from the Forrest  
Theater)
Philadelphia PA 19107
215-923-1113

Here is a  excerpted write up from the Philadelphia Inquirer:

What do you get when you mix a Boardwalk Empire-style speakeasy with a  
raucous beer hall featuring rare Scandinavian beers, a banjo-strumming  
ragtime band, and a menu specializing in wild game slathered with  
fruity glazes?
Our latest "farmer" restaurant, naturally: The Farmers'  
Cabinet. . . . .this Walnut Street destination, ultimately, is far  
more about stylish drinking than about who grows the food or how it's  
prepared - . . . .(Blues trombone at the ready, please.) The name is  
actually a doff of the pre-Prohibition bowler to cocktail history: The  
original Farmers' Cabinet was a general-interest newspaper in Amherst,  
N.H., commonly credited with being the first to use the word cocktail  
in print in 1803.

And this Cabinet certainly has the vintage vibes and liquid part down  
pat, with one of the most exciting drink and unusual live-music  
programs in town. With musician Drew Nugent giving the ivories a good  
stride-piano spanking, a tuba oomping bass, and a banjo strumming a  
Dixieland strut, the inner flapper or secret bootlegger in you must be  
moved . . .

On one side of the front room, decorated with barrels and sail-like  
curtains illuminated by dangling Mason jars-turned-lanterns, cocktail  
queen Phoebe Esmon spins pure alcoholic alchemy. She and her crew work  
from a repertoire of refined classics and inventive fancies, with  
multiple kinds of ice (some hacked from 250-pound blocks) and house- 
made mixers such as the strawberry-rhubarb ratafia, ginger tincture,  
celery syrup, and narcissus bitters used in her seven-drink ode to  
Stravinsky's Rite of Spring.

Bottom Line?

Come on by and listen to some hot jazz by Steve Barbone on Clarinet,  
Sonny Troy on  guitar and DeWitt Kay on Double Bass. You'll be glad  
you did.

Cheers
Steve Barbone
www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband