It's Hot Jazz Sunday Night! The monthly jazz night continues in 2027 at Hamilton Studio Listening Room with the Red Hot Kitten Stompers, featuring Washboard Chaz and Marla Dixon from New Orleans!
Laissez les bons temps rouler! Two days before Fat Tuesday, the Hot Club of Spokane brings Mardi Gras to the Inland Northwest with two of the Crescent City’s finest: washboard master Washboard Chaz Leary and trumpeter and vocalist Marla Dixon, joined by Spokane’s own Red Hot Kitten Stompers. Having even one New Orleans musician in Spokane during Carnival season is a treat. Having two is extraordinary.
Brooklyn-born Washboard Chaz has been a New Orleans institution since 2000. He leads the Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, the Tin Men, Washboard Rodeo, and the Palmetto Bug Stompers, and his bands appear every year at Jazz Fest and French Quarter Fest. He has performed or recorded with Bonnie Raitt, Taj Mahal, Robert Cray, and Doc Watson, and appears on more than 70 recordings, including John Hammond’s Grammy-nominated “Long As I Have You.” He also appears in Playing for Change’s “Stand by Me” alongside fellow New Orleanian Grandpa Elliott. His washboard, customized with tin cans, a wood block, and a hotel bell, is on exhibit at the New Orleans Jazz Museum at the New Orleans Mint.
Chaz is an old friend of the Hot Club of Spokane. He played the very first Think Swing New Orleans Jazz Festival in 2006, the post-Katrina benefit that helped launch our organization, returned for Think Swing in 2009, and joined us at the Bartlett in 2017.
Marla Dixon, originally from Ontario, is a fixture of Frenchmen Street. She was mentored by the great clarinetist Orange Kellin and founded the Shotgun Jazz Band in 2011. She has toured North America and Europe with the Shake ’Em Up Jazz Band and been a featured performer at festivals in England, Denmark, and Australia. Marla was just here in August, performing with the Red Hot Kitten Stompers, and we’re thrilled to welcome her back so soon with her hard-driving trumpet and vintage-style vocals.
Doors open at 1:30pm. Concert from 2-4pm.
This is an all-ages event, but for those of legal age with ID, a bar with beer and wine is available. Hamilton Studio also has Charcuterie Boxes on offer at every Hot Jazz Sunday Night.
We recommend buying tickets in advance, as our events sell out quickly! $40 in advance, or $50 at the door. Ask us about group rates!