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Sidecar Social Club Jazz Band from Raleigh, NC

Will travel up to 500 miles

  • Avg 5.0 | 1 Review
  • 3 Verified Bookings
  • Member Since 2015
  • Starting at $3,000 per event

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Sidecar Social Club is a 5-piece jazz ensemble based in Raleigh, North Carolina. Our group has an extensive amount of experience playing, learning and teaching music. And we have traveled far for the opportunity to exhibit what we do and the sounds we make. Each five members share a lifelong enthusiasm for songwriting, collaboration and performance. Our music is bold and fun and the chemistry between us is palpable. We have a thrill and verve for music that we hope is inspiring and contagious. And we absolutely aim for each of our concerts to be a joyful revelry. A Sidecar Social Club show is spirited, stylish and engaging. A versatile and ever-expanding song catalog of speak-easy jazz, vintage R&B, real country and modern pop keeps our sets colorful and surprising. And keeps the dancers hopping. Our weekly shows are commonly standing-room-only. And we frequently play two to three nights a week. These steady performances keep us sharp and have focused the band's artful interpretations of tunes from the Great American Songbook as well as sparked a growing number of originals and re-imagined modern fare by artists such as Cake, Danny Elfman, and Queens of the Stoneage. In late 2011, artist and chanteuse, Lisa Veronica Wood, approached keyboardist J. Clarence Crew, Jr. with the idea of starting a jazz group. While already maintaining a busy schedule composing for film and TV, Crew made time to rehearse and with the arrival of bassist/recordist Aaron Bittikofer they began to shape the heart of the band's sound. The trio quickly found that they shared a common love for the stories and themes of Prohibition and the broken and unrequited women of song. Now, the fire was stoked. And with it came the auspicious additions of saxophonist F.O. Finch, III and drummer Edward Theolandos Butler to complete the balance. Crew had spent the previous twenty five years performing salsa, funk, and avant-garde in concerts and at jazz festivals and with a number of different organizations. While Bittikofer was touring with the highly-regarded alternative band Hipbone. Lisa Veronica Wood's professional career began in Key West, Fl, where she sang with small groups and nightclub combos. Lisa fearlessly engages her audience, drawing them in from the very first note. Before landing in Raleigh she was writing and performing with various bands in Toronto, Cleveland and Los Angeles. Finch, who is brimming with funk, jazz, and big band credentials, delivers an invigorating shot of New Orleans and blues-inspired brilliance to the music. And the man pulsing with the rhythms of his own eclectic musical odyssey of thirty-plus years, including adventures in free jazz, world music, theater and Americana, is Butler. He is the master of a fat groove and layers it with a well-honed palette of percussive textures. He keeps happy feet tapping and happy people dancing. Sidecar Social Club would be thrilled to perform for your weddings, private events, galas, openings, house parties, fund raisers and other special affairs. From the main stage of Raleigh's prestigious Artsplosure to annual shows at the South Carolina Jazz Festival, over the last four years we have had the great pleasure of entertaining at many types of events and in a wide range of venues. We can take you on a lively romp with a classy, artful air or create the perfect, elegant atmosphere, or a mixture of both. Whatever it is that compliments your event. We always bring our style and seasoned panache. From the moment we arrive we aim to wow. We are very proud to have had the opportunity to showcase our talents in many wonderful clubs, halls and associations who have welcomed us onto their stages. Apex Jazz Festival, Artsplosure, The Bee Ball, Beyu Caffé, C Grace, CAM, The Cary Theater, The Cotton Room, Davidson's Concerts on the Green, Durham Armory, Haw River Ballroom, Humble Pie, Kings, Koka Booth, Local 506, Merrimon-Wynne House, Mordecai House, NC Museum of Art, NC State Fair, NC Museum of History, Papa Mojo's, The Red Room, South Carolina Jazz Festival, Triangle Heart Ball, Waverly Place. We are Sidecar Social Club. Let's do something together!

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Avg 5.0 | 1 Review

Review by Lisa L.

Birthday Party (Adult)Reviewed on January 22, 2020From Chapel Hill, NC

I just realized that I never left a review for Sidecar Social Club! What an amazing group of musicians and singers. We had a blast, everyone raved about the music, and Sidecar Social Club made the whole night a huge success. Thank you!

Song List 

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  • Ain't Misbehavin' | Fats Waller
  • All Right Okay You Win | Peggy Lee
  • Am I Blue | Billie Holiday
  • At Last | Etta James
  • Auld Lang Syne | Robert Burns
  • Autumn leaves | Nat King Cole
  • Basin St Blues | Louis Armstrong
  • Besame Mucho | Consuelo Velázquez
  • Beyond the Sea | Bobby Darin
  • Birth of the Blues | Frank Sinatra
  • Blue Bayou | Linda Rondstat
  • Blue Eyes Cryin' in the Rain | Willie Nelson
  • Blue Moon | The Marcels
  • Blueberry Hill | Fats Domino
  • Break it to Me Gently | Brenda Lee
  • Bye Bye Blackbird | Julie London
  • Caramel | Suzanne Vega
  • Caravan | Duke Ellington
  • Careless Whisper | George Michael
  • Chilly Winds | Nina Simone
  • Claire | Fairground Attraction
  • Comes Love | Billie Holiday
  • Cry To Me | Solomon Burke
  • Dance Me To The End of Love | Madeleine Peyroux
  • Dark Eyes | Adalgiso Ferraris
  • Don't Explain | Billie Holiday
  • Don't Wait Too Long | Madeleine Peyroux
  • Dream a Little Dream of Me | Doris Day
  • Embraceable You | Frank Sinatra
  • Feeling Good | Nina Simone
  • Fly Me to the Moon | Frank Sinatra
  • Frank Sinatra/You Turn the Screws | Cake
  • Girl From Ipanema | Getz & Gilberto
  • *Go On Be Done With It | Sidecar Social Club
  • Harvest Moon | Neil Young
  • Hesitation Blues | Madeleine Peyroux
  • How High the Moon | Ella Fitzgerald
  • I Can't Give You Anything But Love | Billie Holiday
  • I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire | The Ink Spots
  • I Don't Want to Talk | Sidecar Social Club
  • I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free | Nina Simone
  • I'll Never Be Free | Ford and Star
  • I'm Gonna Lock My Heart | Billie Holiday
  • I'm Gonna Sit Right Down | Madeleine Peyroux
  • I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm | Billie Holiday
  • *In The Careful Quiet of Your Smile | Sidecar Social Club
  • It Had To Be You | Frank Sinatra
  • Jump In The Line | Harry Belafonte
  • Just Squeeze Me | Duke Ellington
  • Just the Way You Look Tonight | Billie Holiday
  • La Vie En Rose | Edith Piaf
  • Let The Good Times Roll | Shirley and Lee
  • Little Sister | Elvis
  • Louisiana Fairytale | Fats Waller
  • Love is Strange | Mickey and Sylvia
  • Mambo Italiano | Rosemary Cloony
  • Mas Que Nada | Segio Mendez
  • Mean to Me | Vic Damone
  • Minnie The Moocher | Cab Calloway
  • Miss Celie's Blues | Quincy Jones
  • Mood Indigo | Nina Simone
  • Moonglow | Doris Day
  • My Baby Just Cares for Me | Nina Simone
  • *Mystery Island | Sidecar Social Club
  • Night and Day | Ella Fitzgerald
  • No One Knows | Queens of the Stoneage
  • Papa Loves Mambo | Nat Cole
  • *Parakeet | Sidecar Social Club
  • *Professor Ferris Jones | Sidecar Social Club
  • Rockin Around the Xmas Tree | Brenda Lee
  • Sally's Song | Danny Elfman
  • Shahdaroba | Roy Orbison
  • She Got Low Down | Huey Piano Smith
  • Softly As In A Morning Sunrise | Bobby Darin
  • Solitude | Duke Ellington
  • St James Infirmiry | Louis Armstrong
  • St Louis Blues | Louis Armstrong
  • Stagger Lee | Lloyd Price
  • *Still the Sun Refuses to Shine | Sidecar Social Club
  • Stone Cold Dead | Ella Fitzgerald
  • *Sun Is High | Sidecar Social Club
  • Sway | Michael Bublé
  • Tangerine | Frank Sinatra
  • Teach Me Tonight | Amy Winehouse
  • The Christmas Song | Nat King Cole
  • Them There Eyes | Billie Holiday
  • They Can't Take That Away From Me | Ella Fitzgerald
  • Tonight You Belong To Me | Music from "The Jerk"
  • *The Vampire and the Sheriff | Sidecar Social Club
  • Walkin After Midnight | Patsy Cline
  • Why Don't You Do Right | Peggy Lee
  • *Wild Winds | Sidecar Social Club
  • You Never Can Tell | Chuck Berry
  • You'd Be So Nice | Sarah Vaughan

Booked Events 

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Past Events

September 16, 2017 • Birthday Party (Adult)
Sat6:00 PM - 10:00 PM Chapel Hill, NC
June 11, 2017 • Humble Pie Raleigh
Sun8:30 PM - 11:00 PM Raleigh, NC
May 13, 2017 • Wedding
Sat9:00 PM - 12:00 AM Charlotte, NC
May 11, 2017 • Humble Pie Raleigh
Thu8:30 PM - 11:00 PM Raleigh, NC
April 11, 2017 • Humble Pie Raleigh
Tue8:30 PM - 11:00 PM Raleigh, NC
March 11, 2017 • Humble Pie Raleigh
Sat8:30 PM - 11:00 PM Raleigh, NC
February 13, 2017 • North Carolina Museum of Art
Mon5:30 PM - 8:00 PM Raleigh, NC
February 11, 2017 • Humble Pie Raleigh
Sat8:30 PM - 11:00 PM Raleigh, NC
January 13, 2017 • North Carolina Museum of Art
Fri5:30 PM - 8:00 PM Raleigh, NC
January 11, 2017 • Humble Pie Raleigh
Wed8:30 PM - 11:00 PM Raleigh, NC
December 13, 2016 • North Carolina Museum of Art
Tue5:30 PM - 8:00 PM Raleigh, NC
December 11, 2016 • Humble Pie Raleigh
Sun8:30 PM - 11:00 PM Raleigh, NC

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