12 September 2008

Tonight & Tomorrow Night at The Showroom...

Back To Business.....

Friday 8:30 An Evening with The Belleville Outfit SOLD OUT(seated show)
Tickets : $15 advance/$18 door

Saturday 8:30 House Party with The Belleville Outfit Christabel and The Jons open TICKETS AVAILABLE(no chairs)

Tickets : $12 advance/$15 door

Spartanburg's favorite band returns!

With a tight, seamless, and an acoustic sound that's uniquely their's — a mix of gypsy swing, big band jazz and cross-genre Americana music, original songs and some clever covers — the startling six-piece Belleville Outfit of Austin belies the tender age of its members and its vast experience garnered swiftly after its union around Merlefest 2007 in Wilkesboro, N.C.

In fact, in just twelve months, the band has played for more than 25,000 people, ridden in a van-with-trailer to shows all the way from Texas to Tennessee, from Colorado to New York, and sold out shows up and down the East Coast and through Texas. Along the way, they've played the Strawberry Festival, the Kerrville Folk Festival, South by Southwest, the Four Corners Festival, Old Settlers Festival, and more. They've shared stages with the likes of Lyle Lovett, Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, The Del McCoury Band, The Waybacks, and The Duhks, and recorded a full-length album with producers John Rees and Bil Vorndick. When the band is home, members soak up other acts’ music, absorbing how music transmits energy from musician to listener, healing both — always learning, learning from the past but breathing their own interpretations into what they hear.

The Belleville Outfit came together when The DesChamps Band of Spartanburg, was offered a slot at Merlefest 2007. The former band of singer-songwriter-guitarist Rob Teter was no more, so he got former band-mate, singer-guitarist Marshall Hood, and vocalist-violinist Phoebe Hunt (who’s won Daniel Pearl Foundation honors) to New Orleans to meet drummer Jonathan Konya, pianist Connor Forsyth and upright bass player Jeff Brown. After two days of marathon rehearsals, the band was ready for its first shows together — complete with a sound that mixes members’ Appalachian roots and the traditional jazz of New Orleans, American swing, blues, country, soul and gypsy music.

Teter, Forsyth and Konya had been studying music at Loyola New Orleans for two years, and Hunt had earned a degree in history at the University of Texas at Austin while playing in a local folk trio, The Hudsons and learning to play the fiddle. Brown, a member of The DesChamps Band, had joined the military. Hood was playing gigs for Austin’s Toni Price and Warren Hood and the Hoodlums. But after Merlefest, they each decided to give the band their all. Its name (“belle ville” means beautiful town in French) honors New Orleans and the dramatic influence Hurricane Katrina had on the city and the Loyola trio. And “Belleville” is also Django Reinhardt song, which exemplifies a great portion of its sound.

The band’s debut independent album, WANDERIN’, was released on Feb. 5, 2008, and spent sixteen weeks in the Top 20 on the Americana Music Charts, rising as high as #10. In April 2008 it was the fourth-most heavily-played album on XM Radio's X-Country station. Upcoming festival performances include the Austin City Limits Festival in September and the Joshua Tree Roots & Music Festival in California in October. Austin Chronicle music critic Jim Caligiuri named the Belleville Outfit the "best new local band" in Austin in 2008.
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