Love Lane Gang! They're Just Plain Fun!
Photo by Sheelman Photography
The Love Lane Gang is a locals band that knocks the socks off tourists and locals alike.They play music that spans generations as well as embodies them. With an age range among the members of over thirty years, they bring a wide variety of experience and musical tastes to bear. They’ve brought back skiffle and updated it for the present.
The emphasis is on ragtime and swing: classics from the 1930s and 1940s, done in a refreshing new style that incorporates the Hot Club approach with island flourishes. Dust Bowl ballads, old school country from Hank Williams and Dolly Parton, rockabilly and surf music classics and little-known gems, tunes from Sixties stars like The Beatles, The Kinks, and The Rolling Stones, and carefully chosen songs from current artists like Andrew Bird, Mason Jennings, and The White Stripes all fit in alongside original songs that sound like they could have come from any of those eras.
Offbeat instrumentation, including mandolin, ukulele, accordion, fiddle, washboard, and a kazoo horn section, added to familiar guitar, bass, and harmonica, creates a broad musical palette which they use to color their performances.
But you needn’t pay too much mind to all that serious musical analysis – they’re just plain fun!
Their regular gigs are at McConnell’s Irish Pub And Grill on Fridays at 8 PM and Saluté On The Beach on Sundays at 5:30 PM. They will also be playing at Blue Heaven for brunch on Saturday,at 10:30 AM. And they will be at The Pier House Saturday evening for the Womankind Benefit from 7 – 10 PM.
Scheduled Appearances:
McConnell’s Irish Pub And Grill
900 Duval St.
Friday 6/13 8 PM – midnight
Blue Heaven
729 Petronia St.
Saturday 6/14 10:30 AM – 1:30 PM
The Pier House
1 Duval St.
Saturday 6/14 7 – 10 PM
Saluté On The Beach
1000 Atlantic Blvd.
Sunday 6/15 5:30 – 8:30 PM
McConnell’s Irish Pub And Grill
900 Duval St.
Friday 6/20 8 PM – midnight
Saluté On The Beach
1000 Atlantic Blvd.
Sunday 6/22 5:30 – 8:30 PM