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Boogaloo Swamis

4 time Boston Music Award Winners w/ Mickey Bones

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"The Boogaloo Swamis planted their roots in the rich diversity of the Louisiana bayou. Now their blend of Cajun and Zydeco music has the critics raving and the audiences dancing till they drop". The Boogaloo Swamis are Boston's premier party band. Over twenty-three years ago, they brought New Orleans music to New England and kept it here. Like a walk down Bourbon Street, the Swamis' music is a melting pot of sounds as the band continues to make wonderful bayou-infused music. When the Boogaloo Swamis are playing, the audience comes along for the party. The Boogaloo Swamis combine their rhythmic Cajun and Zydeco music with Rockabilly, Tex Mex, Blues and original tunes for a "hot" musical gumbo. Four-time winners of Boston Music Awards' "Outstanding World Music Act," the Boogaloo Swamis, true to their roots, create a party wherever they perform".
"One of the Northeast region’s favorite dance bands, the Boston-based Boogaloo Swamis have been playing their unique blend of New Orleans influenced Rhythm and Blues for the past twenty-three years with five recordings and four Boston Music Awards to their credit. When that driving beat starts up, every room turns into Mardi Gras -- a joyful reunion of clapping, jumping, swinging people who are having the time of their lives. With their unique, mix of traditional Creole and Cajun elements along with the contemporary sounds of blues, funk and Afro-beat, the Boogaloo Swamis are taking the Zydeco tradition into the future, and making friends everywhere they go".
"Like a walk down Bourbon Street, the Swamis’ music is a melting pot of sounds as the band continues to make wonderful bayou-infused music"
"A beautiful combination of soulful Cajun and Zydeco rhythms with just a touch of blues and gospel thrown in for good measure. Whether your at home cookin' up some Jumbalaya or hosting an all out Bayou Bash, the Boogaloo Swamis are just the ingredient you'll need to heat thing up".

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Member Since: 11/24/2006
Band Website: boogalooswami.com
Band Members: Boogaloo Swamis: live at Passim Coffeehouse / from the Boston Phoenix

Now that the temperate solo troubadours dominate the coffeehouse market, it's easy to forget the days when folk basements often showcased a more rambunctious pack of performers. The old Club 47 offered a grab bag of quasi-folk noisemakers from the Charles River Valley Boys to visiting blues brawlers like Muddy Waters and Junior Wells. But thanks to a well hyped acoustic-music renaissance, local concert moguls have been steadily luring away both high-priced ensembles and seasoned folkie stars, leaving the coffeehouses with a dwindling pool of quality singer-songwriters. In an admirable attempt to stalk some new game, the Passim promoters tossed in a wild card by booking the Boogaloo Swamis, a five piece band of local eclectics ostensibly dispensing Cajun and zydeco dance music. Less selective than native Louisiana purveyors of those styles, like Beausoliel and Queen Ida, the Swamis spliced in enough blues rave-ups and plain rock and roll to re-create the Cambridge make-shift-dropout mode of Kweskin's Jug Band and the Holy Modal Rounders.

On stage at Passim, washboard-clad Mickey Bones led his quintet through a smorgasbord of bayou standards ("Jolie Blon"), upbeat zydeco (Cleveland Crochet's "Sugar Bee"), country crossovers (Hank Williams' "Jambalaya"), and saucy blues stomps (Howlin' Wolf's "Built for Comfort"). Guitarist Joe Pete crooned Creole French on "Back Door" and "Port Arthur Blues". The show was buoyed by first rate instrumentals. Accordion and fiddle twirled Mardi Gras sounds behind rejuvenated warhorses like "Diggy Diggy Lo". Ever true to real tradition, the Boogaloo Swamis frequently disassembled and rearranged zesty blues calls. They hit their peak when Bones took a deadpan tenor turn on Little Feat's "Rocket In My Pocket" with fiddle slithering over low accordion drones. If the folkies begin to adopt more renegades like the Boogaloo Swamis, coffeehouses everywhere may start widening their dance floors and start sneaking rum into the hot cider.

Whether playing at rowdy rock clubs like the now defunct Rat in Boston or performing at a corporate funtion, the Boogaloo Swamis know how to entertain the crowd.

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