Connie Evingson is one of our favorite collaborators. We are thrilled to be accompanying her for an intimate concert at the Minneapolis Women’s Club!
Tickets: https://www.womansclub.org/events-1/jazz-with-connie-2
Tuesday April 9th, 6:30-8:30pm
WOMEN’S CLUB OF MINNEAPOLIS
410 OAK GROVE ST
MINNEAPOLIS, MN 55403
Friends, after the longest hiatus on record… We will be returning to our home at the Aster Café EVERY sunday! Full details are still pending, but mark your calendars and keep an eye out here or at https://astercafe.com/. We can’ wait to see y’all and dem!!!
What exactly is a ramble?We are pleased to be organizing a stellar afternoon of acoustic music at Hot Sam’s Foto Park… For those who are unfamiliar, Hot Sam’s is a roadside attraction in Lakeville, MN featuring 5 Acres of antiques, oddities and for one day only; Acoustic music! Patty and The Buttons will be opening the event with The Southside Aces, their powers combine to form the newly minted Southside Buttons! This is a homegrown affair, but we will be asking folks to mind the safely spaced listening circles and keep a safe distance from other households in attendance. You are able to roam the park and it’s one of a kind attractions at any time. We will also be limiting attendees, so advance registration is encouraged but not required. Directly across from Hot Sam’s is the Red Fox Tavern which offers a wide assortment of food and beverage for your consumption in between rambles. Please join us!
(See above infographic)
Hot Sam’s First Annual Ramble
22820 Pillsbury Ave, Lakeville, MN 55044
Saturday, September 26th, 2020
11am-5pm
FEATURING:
– 11a The Southside Buttons (Debut)
– 12p Steam Machine
– 1p Mumblin’ Drews M.O.O.
– 2p HGH
– 3p Danielle Enblom & Co
– 4p The Hula Peppers
$25/ Vehicle Admission
Bring your own provisions, tip the bands!
Limited Capacity
https://hotsamsramble.brownpapertickets.com/
We are pleased to be presenting an evening of hot acoustic swing for dancing and listening with our friends The Mississippi Hot Club! This our first time sharing the stage with this energetic young group so we hope you’ll join us to celebrate. There will be plenty of room for listening, dancing and drinking so chose wisely.
In Concert with the Mississippi Hot Club
Friday November 29th, 8-11pm, $15
Tickets
Aster Cafe (River Room)
125 SE Main St
Minneapolis, MN
55414
The Minnesota Music Coalition has been doing great things for musicians in the metro and beyond. Their Caravan Du Nord series brings metro music acts to the greater state of Minnesota. We will be joining our good friends from Minneapolis Trailer Trash as well as the North Shore Natives Lake Effect in Grand Marais, MN!
Trailer Trash
Saturday, October 14th 2017
Arrowhead Center for the Arts – 51 W. 5th Street
7 pm – Concert w/Trailer Trash, Patty & The Buttons, Lake Effect
($18 / $8 students)
Additional Information: https://www.mnmusiccoalition.org/event/caravan-du-nord-trailer-trash-patty-buttons-lake-effect/
Phil Nusbaum at Jazz 88 in Minneapolis interviewed us about our ongoing engagement at the Aster. We assume that most of you folks know about it, but it never hurts to spead the word! You will be able to hear the 5 minute segment throughout the day during the month of July. You can listen to the segment at the public radio exchange here: https://beta.prx.org/stories/183023
Folks, we could not be more excited to announce our SECOND ANNUAL Vaudeville Show at Heights Theater on Saturday, November 28th! Tickets are on sale now for this very special matinee:
THIS YEAR’S SPECIAL GUESTS:
Harvey Gustafson (Master of the MIGHTY Wurlitzer Organ)
Yellow-Bellied Sapsuckers (Country music duo)
Christina Baldwin (Music of vaudeville starlets)
Miss Molly (Tap dancing)
Pop Wagner (Cowboy arts)
Adam Kiesling (American folk music)
Liz Shacterle (Puppetry)
and silent film shorts with LIVE organ accompaniment!
OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Minneapolis based jazz band Patty and The Buttons are pleased to announce the return of their annual Vaudeville show. In the spirit of vaudeville performances from the first half of the 20th century, the show brings together the region’s most talented performers in many different disciplines. Patty and The Buttons will serve as both the hot jazz house band and masters of ceremonies for the afternoon. Presented at the immaculately restored Heights Theater in Columbia Heights, audiences are transported back to the days when the theater was built in 1926. The vaudeville show also features house organist Harvey Gustafson and the theater’s Mighty Wurlitzer organ. Gustafson will play before the show and also accompany both musical artists and silent film shorts. As part of Patty and The Buttons continuing commitment to the youth of America, all audience members under the age of 18 years are welcome to attend free of charge!
Saturday, November 28th, 2015
1pm Matinee (Family Friendly)
The Historic Heights Theater
3951 Central Ave NE
Minneapolis, MN
$15 advance, $20 door
Tickets: http://pattyandthebuttonsvaudeville.brownpapertickets.com
We are pleased to be joining our good friends the Southside Aces for a 2015 New Year’s Eve Ball! TWO hot jazz bands, a wide open dancefloor, drinks and dinner… Who could ask for any better way to ring in the New Year?
Thursday, December 31st 2015
Doors 6:30pm
Dinner 7pm
Music 8pm-12:30am
Eagles Club #34
2507 East 25th Street
Minneapolis, MN
$22 for the dance
$36 for dinner and dance
Advance tickets available IN PERSON ONLY at the Eagles Club or AT THE DOOR.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
We could not be more pleased to be presenting two American music legends at the Jackson Street Roundhouse on Friday, October 2nd. Arrive early and check out the house collection of historic train cars, engines and memorabilia in the 100 year old venue, still functioning as a roundhouse today. The night will open with a solo set of ragtime guitar from Dakota Dave Hull. Then, we’ll be playing a program of mostly traditional jazz along side Butch Thompson on clarinet. Don’t worry, Dakota Dave will be joining the band too! This will be a seated concert event, although if your feet start moving, we won’t stop them! Here is the poster and the press release:
Patty and The Buttons
Dakota Dave Hull
with special guest Butch Thompson
Friday, October 2nd, 2015
Doors 7pm, Show 8pm
Jackson Street Roundhouse
193 Pennsylvania Ave E, St Paul, MN
$15 at the door, includes museum admission
http://pattyandthebuttons.com
Hot jazz purveyors Patty and The Buttons will be partnering with acoustic guitar legend Dakota Dave Hull to present an evening of early american music at the Jackson Street Roundhouse. Also joining the Buttons on clarinet is Prairie Home Companion alumnus and traditional jazz great Butch Thompson. Arrive early to the event to take in the house collection at the Minnesota Transportation museum. This is a seated concert event.
About Dakota Dave Hull:
Hailed by everyone from Dave Van Ronk to Doc Watson, from the Washington Post to Downbeat, Dakota Dave Hull’s guitar style spans a wide musical geography to create an infectious, uniquely personal blend of jazz, ragtime, folk, blues, Western swing, and vintage pop. Dakota Dave is a restlessly curious, adventurous traveler along the broad highway of America’s music. In his playing the masters speak, but in a vocabulary that is Dave’s alone: alternatively mirthful and moving, always melodic.
A gifted composer as well as a strikingly original interpreter of older tunes, Dave calls what he does “classic American guitar.” Folk legend Van Ronk called Dave “one of the best guitarists in the world.”
Most of all, Dakota Dave’s music is great fun. As Douglas Green (Ranger Doug of Riders in the Sky) puts it, “There is an imp within Dave Hull that always expresses itself on the fretboard; a witty, intelligent yet respectful imp who frolics in his music, an imp Dakota Dave neither fights nor lets take control, but simply absorbs into the heart of his style.”
More information at: http://dakotadavehull.com
About Butch Thompson:
In a career spanning over 45 years, pianist and clarinetist Butch Thompson has earned a world-wide reputation as a traditional jazz and ragtime master. He tours widely as a soloist or at the helm of any of his several ensembles, including his well-known Butch Thompson Trio, his eight-piece Jazz Originals band, the Butch Thompson Big Three, or his unique blues duo with fingerstyle guitarist Pat Donohue.
He has performed with many symphony orchestras, including the Hartford Symphony, the St. Louis Symphony, the Erie Philharmonic, the Minnesota Orchestra, and the Cairo (Egypt) Symphony.
Widely known for his 12-year stint as house pianist on public radio’s A Prairie Home Companion, where the Butch Thompson Trio was the house band, he continues on the show as a frequent guest.
More information at: http://www.butchthompson.com
We are very pleased to announce that we will be a part of The Minnesota Orchestra’s Sommerfest this year! Catch us in the Target Atrium Saturday, July 11th from 5-6:45pm. After our performance, you can catch the orchestra playing some Rachmaninoff in the concert hall as part of the “Inside The Classics” series. Please join us and take part in the great Minnesota institution that is Sommerfest!
Well, we’re not ones to boast, but we’re very fortunate to have been included in some of the finest “Best Of” columns to wrap up 2014!
BeBopified – Pamela Espeland (http://www.bebopified.com/2014/12/our-two-cents-in-2014-twin-cities-music.html)
“Because button accordionist Patrick Harison (Patty) is always worth watching. His music is both old-timey and fresh, and this album of all original songs made me laugh out loud and want to dance. The band: Harison on accordion, vocals, steel guitar, washboard and uke; Keith Boyles on bass; Tony Bailuff on clarinet; Mark Kreitzer on guitar.”
Hymie’s Vintage Records – Dave Hoenack (http://hymiesrecords.com/hymies-favorite-local-albums-of-2014/)
“Fifteen years ago, when PBS aired Ken Burn’s nine-part documentary, Jazz, we were appalled by its rigid, neo-classicist attitude. Eight episodes were devoted to the history of America’s greatest art form up until 1960, and only one to the extraordinary works written and recorded since. Watching Wynton Marsalis and Gary Giddins describe something so vibrant and inspiring as though it were a lost relic turned us off to traditionalism for years — It took local musicians like Patrick Harison, who we recently described as a muppet (here), to remind us that traditional music is not a museum piece but an ongoing communication between the past and the present. Patty and the Buttons‘ second full-length disc, The Mercury Blues, adds to the conversation by introducing several new numbers which fit beautifully with songs nearly a century old. The album also introduces Patty’s pedal steel work and the band’s interest in the role of Hawaiian music in the first half of the last century.”
MPR’s Cathy Wurzer made some time on Morning Edition to talk about our new release “The Mercury Blues” as well as our Vaudeville Spectacular. We remind her of “Boardwalk Empire” and we’re fine with that being that one of our great heroes Vince Giordano is responsible for the majority of the music on that program. You can listen to the whole segment here: http://www.mprnews.org/story/2014/11/26/music
