Delightful Dazzling Jazz!
2024 Line-Up
(Please note: we will update this page as information comes in)
Baby Soda Jazz Band with special guests Tamar Korn and Gordon Webster (Saturday & Sunday Main Stage)
Baby Soda Jazz Band has been a fixture at the Lawn Party since the beginning. The band was formed in 2007 in Brooklyn New York, by musicians who met playing traditional jazz in Washington Square Park and the NYC subway system. Their repertoire has expanded to include more of the music of Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Hoagy Carmichael, Harry Warren & the composers who created the great American songs of Tin Pan Alley. They are not recreationists, playing note for note transcriptions, but play this expanded repertoire in the New Orleans style of small ensemble improvisation.
Tamar Korn
Tamar Korn has been a featured vocalist at the Lawn Party since we started! Her illustrious career has had her singing around the world, but she’s almost one of the best kept secrets of the New York jazz scene.
Gordon Webster
Gordon Webster spends a lot of his time traveling the world playing for swing dancers, from Beijing, Prague, Seoul, Melbourne, Boston, he is the leader of one of the most popular swing dance bands. His playing is soulful, and moving, if you have a moment really listen to that piano…you will be rewarded.
Castle Hill Hot Six (Saturday Only - Casino Stage)
Led by singer Elizabeth Glavin. The Castle Hill Hot Six will make their Roaring Twenties Lawn Party debut!
Annie and the Fur Trappers (Sunday Only - Casino Stage)
Annie and the Fur Trappers are a Boston-based traditional jazz and blues band. Originally founded in St. Louis, Missouri, in 2016, the band is made up of clarinet, trumpet, trombone, bass, banjo, guitar, washboard, and violin. Annie and the Fur Trappers is dedicated to performing and preserving the music of the 1920s and 30s.
KS SWINGTET (Roving the Lawn)
Kevin Silhanick and his KS Swingtet make their Roaring Twenties Lawn Party debut as the roving band. They’ll be playing in the Vintage Fair and playing to greet you as you walk in.
DJ Alli-Cat (Saturday)
Allison Wilhelm, or DJ Alli-Cat, has been a swing lover since 2012, when a video game piqued her interest in music from the early to mid 20th Century. It was her interest in the genre that led her to take up swing dancing. Since her interest in old school music is what led her here, it should be no surprise that her sets feature classic swing artists like Cab Calloway, Chick Webb, Artie Shaw, and Ella Fitzgerald, but she also digs the sounds of today's artists, like Michael Gamble and the Mint Julep Jazz Band. In her DJing, Allison is committed to authenticity, danceability, and diversity.
Cropped from Image by Adrianne Mathiowetz for Scout Cambridge
Omari Hayles - Emcee (Sunday)
Omari is a man of mystery. He does things. Just ask him. You will hear his dulcet communiques on the main stage.