Wail n’ Good Cheer - Get into that holiday spirit with a very special, soulful and wailing holiday show.

Join the Wail as we swing the Holiday songbook. We've chosen the most heartfelt and comical selections to celebrate this most charming time of year. Grab a nog, and cozy up to your favorites, plus the Wail’s own original holiday tunes. For kids from one to ninety two... the wail rings in true holiday cheer!

 

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What a Wonderful World - The music of Nat King Cole, Louis Armstrong, The Beatles, H Wail and more!

The Wail swings us into timeless standards and originals that portray what a truly wonderful world we live in. Known for their uplifting, high energy, feel-good music, they now present their new show including 1940’s tunes from Nat King Cole, to Louis Armstrong and travel thru the Beatles era, into their own current award-winning originals. You’ll feel good, the Wail will feel good, and the world will be an even better place.

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Bring Fantasy to Life with "Night at the Bohemian Ballroom" and Harmonious Wail!

Think Casablanca, or vintage Hollywood black and white romantic films from the 30’s and 40’s.... “Night at the Bohemian Ballroom”, created by the producers of Madison Wisconsin’s prestigious and long-running, annual Midwest Gypsy Swing Festival, transports your audience into a make-believe world where the most romantically bohemian corner of their soul springs to life ... back to the intoxicating buzz and hum of long lost underground jazz clubs and the exciting, classic nights of Gypsy Jazz master Django Reinhardt and his friends... 

Sizzling over with the lusciously flirtatious vocals of Maggie Delaney-Potthoff and the jazzy, in-your-face, toe-tapping sounds of  mandolin, cardboard box percussion, snappy scissors and electric and double bass, Harmonious Wail seduces the audience with its unique and perfectly-blended sound... A mix between The Manhattan Transfer, Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks and Norah Jones, Harmonious Wail's "Night at the Bohemian Ballroom" takes you back to a time of great jazz, be-bop and Gypsy Swing immersing the audience in a sophisticated yet whimsical European jazz experience...an intellectual mating dance, full of gypsy passion and Bohemian creativity... blissfully heart-pumping, the sounds of the Wail bathes the audience in its musical elixir... an eternally-uplifting experience that leaves convention and all memories of daily monotony in their wake...

Transform your theater or black box into the ultimate fantasy ballroom...”Night at the Bohemian Ballroom”...bring on the dancing shoes and get ready to be Wailed!

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Global Sound Check - A world music tour: ethnic, traditional, cultural!

Harmonious Wail’s new global music show takes you around the world on a gypsified ride. From Moscow to Taipai, Paris to San Paulo; the Wail’s smoldering vocals and gypsy passion will warm your heart and intoxicate your groove. Enter a bistro and be served a delicacy of tunes influenced by Django Reinhardt, Jobim, the Gypsy Kings, the Bueno Vista Social Club, and of course, the Wail’s own award-winning originals: I Like to Feel My Bones, The Lung Shan Temple Chant, and Joie de Vivre. It’s romantic, hot, groovy and mysterious.

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Jump Jive and Wail

It’s hot! It’s jazzed! It swings! The Wail swings the charts of Benny Goodman, Louis Jordan, Fats Waller, and Django Reinhardt....with explosive instrumentals and stellar vocals you’ll feel you’ve been transported back to a simpler time , when swing was king!

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Best of the Wail

Music tailor made for each venue or event chosen from the Wail's seven award winning recordings and newly penned, un-recorded tunes.

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A Tribute to Homer and Jethro

Homer and Jethro were the quintessential comedic duo thru the 50’s, 60’s, and 70’s. Jethro Burns was the finest jazz mandolinist of all time and Sims’mentor, teacher, and friend. This show brings Homer & Jethro’s classic parodies, wit, and instrumental genius to your stage. You’ll be rolling in the aisles as the Wail performs the duos’ famous in- between- song banter and Sims shares his hilarious collection of stories from sitting at the side of the master. From the Grand Ole Opry to your stage...the laughter and music of Homer and Jethro live on! Oooh, that’s corny!

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The Wail brings 20+ years of professionalism and exhilerating entertainment to Performing Arts Centers, festivals, private, corporate and community events, House Concerts, Benefits, and the World's finest music clubs.

Harmonious Wail also offers educational outreach in their own upbeat, unique style.
New programs include:

 

• Group and/or private instrument or vocal coaching - " if you can speak you can sing"

• Improvisation made easy

• “Gypsy Jazz Primer”: the music of Django Reinhardt

• How to start a band, be a band, and grow a band.

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