Performance: White Ghost Shivers

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Date/Time:Wednesday, 09 Sep 2009 from 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Location:Stephens Auditorium
Cost:Adults: $33, Youth: $25, ISU Students: $20
URL:http://www.center.iastate.edu
Contact:Angela Ossian
Phone:515-294-3347
Channel:Iowa State Center
Categories:Arts, performances
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White Ghost Shivers is an eclectic American band based in Austin, Texas. They mix cabaret, jazz, vaudeville, hokum, western swing, hillbilly, jugband and ragtime into a theatrical and infectious good time.

A joyous mixture of the absurd and sublime, the eight-piece ensemble gracefully creates a musical amalgam of Hokum Blues, Hillbilly Swing, Country and Hot Jazz. Simultaneously paying respect to their deft musical influences and irreverently destroying any notion of musical purism, they work hard at making it seem easy.

In just a few years, the band's unique and consistently exuberant live show has earned them an ever-expanding loyal fan base. Imagine a smorgasbord of Cab Calloway, circus sideshow, KISS, cabaret, Hee Haw and Robert Johnson served up at Andy Kaufman's bar mitzvah. Like the great entertainers before them, the band's true gift is their ability to take their eclectic influences and combine them into something they can call their own.