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.
The Orleans Kids (Saturday Only - Casino Stage)
Alex Owen, an accomplished trumpet player will lead this year’s Orleans Kids on our second stage. They will also make an appearance at Afternoon Tea in the Italian Garden and may greet you upon entering the event.
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.
Rubin Brothers (Sunday Only)
A.J. and Colescott Rubin are Boston-based entertainers, vaudevillians, & jazz clowns who lift spirits and make smiles wherever they go, performing swing, blues, & popular songs of yesteryear with a light hearted energy and danceable beat. Student and staff at Berklee College of Music, respectively, they have performed across the country and internationally. Join them in the Vintage Fair, or perhaps you’ll see them on your way into the Lawn Party!
JohnnyG & The Dynamites (Saturday Only)
JohnnyG & The Dynamites is a high energy band full of an all star cast of musicians and entertainers. The band has inspiration deeply rooted in jazz, swing, and soul music that’ll get any event up and going to dance the night away. The band is led by John Lindsay, who is a saxophonist, producer, and arranger that has studied music in several different settings, including graduating from Berklee College of Music on a full scholarship in 2024, where he studied Music Production and Audio Engineering. On top of audio engineering work, he plays sax professionally all around New England at many types of events, including dances, private events, DJ + sax hybrids for clubs, and even stadium shows for the major league rugby team of New England, where he has opened for the bands Crash Test Dummies, Orleans, and Cracker! Follow @johnnyg_l on Instagram to keep up with The Dynamites and his 17 piece big band to see where they are playing next!
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.
DJ Elizabeth Glavin (Sunday)
Elizabeth has been drawn to DJing for swing and vernacular jazz dancers almost since she started dancing herself. A studying classical singer at the time, she was quickly pulled towards early styles of jazz after exposure to the music at dance events.
Several years later, she has had opportunities to study and share the music of early jazz greats for dancers up and down the East coast, and currently sings with a small band that plays for dancers and stationary listeners alike.
Her goal as a DJ is always to keep your feet moving and to leave you a little bit in love with something you hear. Look out for some of her favorite influences from this era- early Ellington, the Louis Armstrong Hot Fives and Sevens, Art Tatum, Edmond Hall, Sidney Bechet, Kid Ory, Bessie Smith, and more!
