TONIGHT: Tumbling Bones at Fiume

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TONIGHT: Tumbling Bones at Fiume

POSTED: Sunday, April 15, 2012, 10:00 AM

Filed Under: Music

They describe themselves as “gritty traditional American music.” Having caught nearly every set they played at Folk Alliance this year, I can only improve on Tumbling Bones’ self-portrait by filling in the color bit. Jake Hoffman, almost a local guy, having grown up in Lancaster County, is the fella with the big voice suitable for jugband material. Sam McDougle plays some funky fiddle and Peter Winne sings, writes originals and drives the rhythm on guitar while Hoffman can drive a mob of dancers with his old time banjo. When the band speaks of American tradition please keep in mind that all traditional music was “popular” music in the day it was composed. Thus, when they reach back to rearrange a Motown number that people have been singing non-stop for 40-50 years, understand that they are on the cutting edge of confirming that music’s elevation to traditional status.

The Tumbling Bones play tonight, Mon., April 16, 7 p.m., $7, with Robert Sarazin Blake, Fiume, above Abyssinia, 229 S 45th St., 215-387-2424, abyssiniarestaurantpa.com.

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