The knock on modern Jazz and Big Band singers like Michael Bublé is that if he lived in the heyday of the 1940s Swing era, he would rank about 49th compared to the other artists of that time. It’s not that Bublé isn’t talented; it’s just that those musicians back in the day were living and breathing the real deal.
These days, there is a scene built around the resurgence of the music of the 1930s. Various retro Jump Blues, early Jazz, Country Blues and Jug Band groups have appeared over the last decade, trying to capture the hard-times-yet-hopeful feel of the music of the Great Depression. Perhaps the best of this current crop is Pokey LaFarge.
What is cool about LaFarge is that if he were alive and playing music in 1936, he would be just as successful as he is now. His visit to Middletown is a part of LaFarge’s Central Time Tour. On the tour, Lafarge is joined by former Carolina Chocolate Drop Dom Flemons as special guest and emcee; Joel Savoy, Jesse Lége and the Cajun Country Revival; Cincy’s own The Tillers; The Loot Rock Gang and others.
POKEY LAFARGE 's Central Time Tour comes to Dave Finkelman Auditorium at Miami University's Middletown campus. Tickets/more info here .
