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Welcome To The Roaring Twenties!

The Band

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Photo: Käthe von T.
When Rag Doll was founded in 2012, singer Käthe von T. and pianist Amy Protscher concurred: it's Bessie Smith's fault that Rag Doll focuses on the 1920s era and its music. Both musicians have this rare mix of raw emotion and bawdy, down-to-earth humor that lets them travel back in time into the Gilded Age – which may have been a golden age for music, but not necessarily for Bessie and her contemporaries Ma Rainey, Ethel Waters, and Alberta Hunter.

Ulrikke Hanspach-Torkildsen's extrovert, virtuoso style on trombone completes the classic Bessie Smith Trio line-up. Together, the three Berliners grab their public by their heartstrings and take them onto a trip back to the heyday of ragtime, boo­gie-woogie, Harlem Stride and barrelhouse. The spark lights immediately and the stage is transformed into a fabulous old juke joint in the American South of the 1920s. And rule number one is: Anything goes! You can just listen, groove along, or dance until you burn the house down. Welcome to the Roaring Twenties!

Personnel:

Käthe von T.: vocal
Ulrikke Hanspach-Torkildsen: trombone/vocal
Amy Protscher: piano/vocal/percussion

Next Performance:
May 3, 2025, 20:00:
Cultural Club Bad Salzungen at Haunscher Hof, Unter den Linden 4, 36433 Bad Salzungen ...

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