Bad Mouse Orchestra

UKULELE TREASURES FROM THE SWING ERA

How did it sound, when in 1927 three friends grabbed their ukulele, guitar and washboard to play the favourite gramophone records right there in their living room?

How did it feel to hear Roy Smeck perform his virtousic uke-arrangements live in the Vaudeville-theatre?

The Bad Mouse Orchestra takes you on a journey right back in to the roaring 20s. Dressed in knickerbocker pants and flat caps of that era they are playing on instruments as old as the songs themselves. And just like that, old original arrangements, that can now only be heard on gramophone records and in historical movies, are brought back to life.
Besides lesser known jazz classics and typical charleston songs of the Tin Pan Alley in the New York of the 1920s, original Roy Smeck arrangements are an extraordinary live experience and a rarity on stage.
After the concert you will go home still feeling the swing in your body, wondering how fast the time went by.