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st harmonicas online Missing Friday nights at the Southgate Club listening to the great bands playing at St Harmonica's? Well, we can't do anything about the lockdown, but we can do our best to recreate St Harmonica's in the comfort of your own home. So pour yourself a glass of beer, move the furniture aside to make yourself a dance floor, click on the first of the music videos below and start a text conversation with some of the people you usually meet up with at the club.

Friday 10th April

This week's St Harmonica's Online was compiled by Dave Thomas and features two bands that would have been playing at the club but for the Coronavirus, plus videos of some of the musicians from the New Orleans area who inspired our local bands.

"In normal times you would have been able to enjoy Jamie Rowan’s Boogie Lightnin’ and Tim Penn and the Second Line on the last two Fridays in March. What they have in common is both bands are piano led, drawing their inspiration from the rich legacy of the New Orleans piano greats. In the case of Jamie Rowan’s evening there wouldn’t have been a guitar in sight.

"This week’s playlist starts with numbers from Jamie and Tim and then takes you to some examples of wonderful piano led music that we hope you will enjoy and possibly explore further."

Watch it by clicking on the videos below, or go to the YouTube playlist.

Tim Penn & The Second Line - Jambalaya

Jambalaya (Hank Williams) Tim Penn & the Second Line Live at Ronnie Scott's Feb 17th 2019

Tim Penn, piano / vocals, Nigel Appleton drums, Francis Booth bass, Mal Barclay guitar, The Rev Mindblowin sax

Boogie Lightning @ St Harmonica's Blues Club - "Honeydripper - Down The Road Apiece"

Jamie Rowan's Boogie Lightning at St Harmonica's Blues Club, London, 5 May 2017.

Professor Longhair - Tipitina

From the 1978 album Live on the Queen Mary

Dr. John - Such a Night

From the film The Last Waltz

Jools Holland & Doctor John as the "Boogie Woogie Twins"

Taken from Night Music #104.

James Booker - True

Recorded live at the Montreux Jazz Festival. An excerpt from the wonderful documentary film Bayou Maharajah.

Jo Ann Kelly with Bob Hall - Make Me A Pallet On Your Floor

Recorded September 1968 at the Marquee Studios, London. Produced by Mike Batt and Tony McPhee

Fats Domino - Blue Monday

From the DVD Live from Austin TX.

The Customtones - There's a speck of dust on my Datsun baby and it's driving me wild

Recorded live at St Harmonica's

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