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Austin’s Asylum Street Spankers coming to Canal Street
Besides the turkey, cranberry sauce, and football, there is one more Thanksgiving weekend tradition that is celebrated every year in Dayton.
That tradition is the Americana/Folk music of the Asylum Street Spankers live at Canal Street Tavern.
For the past nine years the light-hearted Austin, Texas eight piece, the Asylum Street Spankers, have performed their fun and eccentric stage show in Dayton for Thanksgiving weekend.
This year is no different.
“It is sort of a tradition now for us to be in Dayton during Thanksgiving. We love Dayton and Canal Street, and we always have a great time when were there,” said Spankers founding member and singer Christina Marrs.
The band is closing out a very successful year. They just released a double album of songs from their Broadway show entitled What? And Give Up Show Business?.
The show debuted on Broadway last January and got raved reviews from the New York Times, the Village Voice, and Variety.
The new double disc was recorded live in New York and hit stores last month.
The band mixes wit and humor into a set of pickin’ and grinin’ banjos, fiddles, washboards, steel guitars, harmonized voices and an upright bass (just to name a few).
These days the multi-instrumentation is amplified, but Canal Street owner Mick Montgomery told me in the old days the band would play completely acoustic. No amps or mics. Just the band and the sounds they created.
I would have loved to have seen that.
Catch them this Saturday, November 29th, at Canal Street Tavern. Doors open at 8pm and tickets are $20.
Visit www.canalstreettavern.com or www.asylumstreetspankers.com for more info and to hear samples of the band’s music.
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