Whoo's that sound? The second of swing band master Dave Stuckey's bands - The Hoot Owls have flown in for the Redwood Coast Music Festival! This Western Swing superband and will be performing on Friday & Saturday, so don't miss out!
2020 Ameripolitan Music Award Winner for Best Western Swing Male, multi-talented Dave Stuckey is a band leader, producer, singer, songwriter, drummer, and swingin' guitarist extraordinaire! Just look at his activities in less than 15 years: He helped the rebirth of the American hillbilly/rockabilly scene with the Dave & Deke Combo, produced the Best Album of The Hot Club Of Cowtown «Tall Tales» (and co-wrote with them the beautiful «When I Lost You» and «Sleep»), found time to drum with The Untamed Youth & The Lucky Stars AND released the best western-swing album of the last 50 years - «Get a load of this».
Before fiddler Spade Cooley & California promoter Foreman Phillips gave it a name in 1944, Western swing was simply known as "Hot String Band" music.
Dave Stuckey and The Hoot Owls mine this particular vein of the earliest form of this infectious, swinging genre, whose earliest stars were Milton Brown, Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, The Light Crust Doughboys and The Tune Wranglers, among others.
This red-hot aggregation features Dave Stuckey on rhythm guitar and vocals, James Mason on fiddle, Mikiya Matsuda on steel, Tyler Thomson on bass fiddle, Chris Wilkinson on guitar and the inimitable Carl Sonny Leyland on piano and vocals.
Don't miss this chance to dance to swinging music while watching some of the best dancers in festival pairing up on the dance floor.
