Paul Cebar Tomorrow Sound plus Alfonso Ponticelli & Swing Gitan

A FitzGerald favorite, PAUL CEBAR TOMORROW SOUND, recently released a new album, 'Fine Rude Thing," and tonight we'll hear some of the new songs as well as old favorites. 

Paul Cebar has been slowly refining a craft for over thirty years that, like the greatest craftsmen of every era, began by watching, studying, and listening alone, and slowly developed into leading a hand-picked group of dynamo musicians known as "Tomorrow Sound". The Paul Cebar we're discussing is the one referred to by Bonnie Raitt as a "national treasure", who jokes around and plays music with Nick Lowe regularly, visits with David Hidalgo of Los Lobos, and has earned the respect and admiration of music legends like John Hiatt and T-Bone Burnett. This Paul Cebar has toured internationally, received radio airplay from stations like WXRT Chicago and WXPN Philadelphia (World Cafe), shared the stage with legends like The Neville Brothers, Chris Isaak, BB King, John Prine, Junior Walker and produced nine albums, largely alone and without the support of a record label or a media promotion machine.  

Taking cues from the dance bands of western Louisiana (and his native Midwest), the streets (and 45’s) of New Orleans, touring African and Caribbean combos and the soul, funk & blues of his youth, Paul Cebar is a masterful synthesist of rhythmic culture.  His time spent in his second home of New Orleans, as a musicologist in Florida, and as a journeyman wanderer in Cuba, is reflected in his musical worldview. "Fine Rude Thing" showcases some of Cebar's most accessible and succinct songs without skimping on his flavorful blend of New Orleans funk, Memphis soul, reggae rhythms and Latin American and Caribbean grooves.

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ALFONSO PONTICELLI & SWING GITAN plays the 1930s-style music of guitarist Django Reinhardt -- foot-tappin' swing played on acoustic instruments. Tonight the band features ALFONSO PONTICELLI (guitar), ERIC SCHNEIDER (clarinet/sax), JOHN BANY (bass) plus more to come.