The Bebop Cowboys - Blues / Jazz / Western Swing

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Date: March 24th, 2012
Show Time: 8pm
Tickets - $35 Adv $40 Door

The Bebop Cowboys

In a relatively short period of time, the Bebop Cowboys have become known as "Canada's premier western swing outfit."

Initially introduced at the preschool their kids attended, Steve Briggs (guitar, band leader) and Howard Willett (harp, vocals) started their musical relationship as a jazz-blues duo, and expanded into what ultimately has become the virtuostic Bebop Cowboys. After bringing together in-demand session players to complete the band, including pedal steel wiz Burke Carroll, a venerable touchstone for Canada's roots music scene--the Bebops polished their repertoire in a residency at Toronto's Cadillac Lounge and recorded their first CD, Début. They then went on to pen their own original western swing tunes brought together with Briggs' formidable arranging skills, and released their critically-celebrated follow-up, Some Kind of Fantasy in 2003. Tours in western and central Canada, and playing the role of presenter with their successful HOMETOWN COUNTRY JUBILEE! showcase series has since kept the band happily busy.

In comparing the Bebops to such legendary western swing groups as Jimmy Dickens and his Country Boys, and Ernest Tubb's Texas Troubadors, one of Canada's Western Swing Music Society reviewers summed up the band's second CD like this:

"Ordinarily such comparisons would be a bit of a reach; believe me, these guys really are this good. Some Kind of Fantasy is easily the best contemporary western swing recording I've heard in quite a while."

Says band leader Steve Briggs of the third CD Canadian Dance Hall; "This is by far the best work the Bebops have ever done."

You won’t be able to sit still. Great entertainment!

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