Tuesday February 28, 2012Take a Chance Tuesday featuring Who Hit John?Show starts at 8 pm Doors o...

Cost: Tuesday February 28, 2012Take a Chance Tuesday featuring Who Hit John?Show starts at 8 pm
Doors open at 7:30 pmTickets sold at the doorsSeating Chart

Gypsy jazz and swing flavors blended with old-time originals

The five members of Kalamazoo's Who Hit John? have tenaciously evolved from their beginnings as an old-time string band playing on the street corner for tips. Now weaving gypsy jazz and swing flavors into an already assorted collage of barnstorming old-time originals and traditional pieces, they blend music of the past with a new vibrant breath of excitement and soul. Expect fanciful fiddle and trumpet melodies over a thick core of acoustic rhythm! Who Hit John?'s first album, "Old Gray Road" (2008), captured the raw, fiddle-driven feeling of their music and set a pattern: all the members contribute original songs. Their second album, "Heirloom" (2009), was recorded in a 100-year-old barn and was nominated for two WYCE Jammie awards in West Michigan. They come to town with their third release, "Great Recession Blues."