Press Kit Basics:
"Shaun & Suzi's 16th Annual Mardi Gras Ball "
Saturday, Feb 21, 2009
Quick Blurb:
Sixteeen years running, Shaun & Suzi's Annual Mardi Gras Ball is a celebration of both New Orleans' music, and of the Boston rock music scene's diversity and abilities. It is a magnificent evening of debauchery, music, art, and more. Shaun Wolf Wortis and Suzi Lee lead a large band through a night of the irreverent and quirky R. & B. music which exploded out of New Orleans in the 1950's. Local rock luminaries -- come up to join them for a few songs each throughout the night.
Proceeds go to the New Orleans Musicians Clinic
Press Release:
GOOD TIMES DO ROLL
Cambridge, MA - For the fifteenth year running, Shaun & Suzi's Mardi Gras Ball will turn a Boston area club into a New Orleans house party. Shaun Wolf Wortis (Gato Malo, ex-Slide etc.) and Suzi Lee (ex-Slide etc.), lead a sprawling band -- the Vudu Krewe All-Star Mardi Gras Band -- through a high-energy set of old New Orleans rhythm & blues music, jazz-era torch songs, and sing-along "Mardi Gras Indian" romps. Special guests from the local Boston rock roster contribute unforgettable performances with the Krewe as a backing band. Long time attendees of the Mardi Gras Ball events can cite the classic New Orleans party songs, but Wortis and Lee also mine a rich seventy years of Lousiana pop music for obscure nuggets. Indeed, regulars of Shaun & Suzi's Annual Mardi Gras Balls may the only folks outside of the Crescent City to now be thoroughly familiar with Oliver Morgan's "Who Shot the La La," The Lollipops "I Got Loaded" or the Pelicans' "Drunk Drunk Drunk".
Press Release:
Previous special guests of the Ball and Bastille Day shows read like a who's-who of local rock and include:
- Tanya Donelly (Throwing Muses, BELLY, Breeder)
- Barrance Whitfield
- Bleu
- Laurie Sargent (Twinemen, Face To Face)
- Jed Parish (Gravel Pit)
- Ramona Silver
- Mick Mondo
- John Powhida
- Chris Mascara
- Jen D'Angora (The Dents, Downbeat 5)
- Gary Cherone (Extreme, Van Halen)
- Dennis Brennan
- Corn Mo
- Chris Cote (Upper Crust)
- Chandler Travis
- Paula Kelley
- Rick Berlin
- Asa Brebner
- Al Janik (Plastic Cheese, Rattle Heatre)
- Valerie Forgione (Mistle Thrush)
- Kip McCloud (Lucky 57)
- Leah Callahan
- Bo Barringer (Collisions)
- Andy Galdins (Rocketscience)
- Jordan Valentine (World's Greatest Sinners)
- Courtney Naliboff
- Anita Suhanin
- Peter Moore (Count Zero)
- Holly Brewer (HUMANWINE)
- Linda Viens (Angeline)
- Adam Glasseye (Reverend Glasseye)
- Anna Price
- Boston Babydolls (burlesque)
- Through The Keyhole (burlesque)
- The Jellyrollers
- Sarah Rabdau
- Session Americana
- Bourbon Princess
- Ziaf
- Jeremy Lyons
- Andrea Gillis
- Willie 'Loco' Alexander
- Sal Clemente (Ultrasonic Rock Orchestra)
- Steamy Bohemians
- Swing Caravan
- Monique Ortiz (AKACOD, Bourbon Princess)
- Ed Valauskas
- Chilly Kurtz
More information about the New Orleans Musicians Clinic
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Shaun & Suzi's Bastille Day A-Go-Go. Photo credit: Just Bill
Shaun & Suzi's Mardi Gras Ball. Photo credit: Jim Curran
Shaun Wolf Wortis/Suzi Lee. Photo credit: Jim Curran
Shaun Wolf Wortis/Suzi Lee. Photo credit: Ingrid Anderson
Shaun Wolf Wortis/Suzi Lee. Photo credit: Winslow Martin
Shaun Wolf Wortis/Suzi Lee. Photo credit: Winslow Martin
Slide. Photo credit: Corinne Schippert
Shaun Wolf Wortis. Photo credit: Winslow Martin