Jumpin' Jazz House Rent Party with Barbara Dane - Benefits the Bothwell!!

Join legendary Barbara Dane and the Golden Gate Hot Five in a jumping Jazz House Rent Party to benefit the Bothwell Arts Center. Called "One of the true unsung heroes of American music" (Boston Globe, 2012) and "Bessie Smith in stereo" (Leonard Feather, Playboy Magazine Jazz Critic), Barbara Dane brings to the Bothwell over 60 years of a remarkably diverse musical career.

In 1946, she shared a folk concert stage in Detroit with Pete Seeger. She released her first album in 1957. By 1959, she was singing jazz with Louis Armstrong and touring with great trombonist Jack Teagarden. She performed folk and blues regularly at the Gate of Horn in Chicago with backup musicians such as Memphis Slim, Willie Dixon, and Little Brother Montgomery. She recorded jazz with Earl "Fatha" Hines and blues with Lightnin' Hopkins.

She sang before tens of thousands in protest of the Vietnam War, was the first white woman to be profiled in "Ebony" magazine, and the first US performer to tour post-revolutionary Cuba.

In San Francisco, she opened "Sugar Hill", the first Bay Area mainstream blues club, bringing in Mama Yancey, Tampa Red, Lonnie Johnson, Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry, Jimmy Rushing, and Mose Allison. 

This historic evening is a benefit for the Bothwell Arts Center, which supports the arts by providing affordable rehearsal, studio, classroom and performance space. The Bothwell is a project of Livermore Performing Arts Center, a not-for-profit corporation. 

Experience the rich heritage of original American music, Jazz, with Barbara Dane: www.barbaradane.net.

$15 Tickets are available at the Bankhead Theater, 2400 First Street, Livermore, 925-373-6800 or online at www.bankheadtheater.org until 7-18, or $20 at the Bothwell's doors.

Produced by Duane Gordon, sound by Kenny Williams and NinjaSound, with a little bit of help from Linda Ryan and the Bankhead.