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NEW MISS ALICE STONE LADIES SOCIETY ORCHESTRA/ BLA BLA CAFE Six-member femme musical ensemble, The New Miss Alice Stone Ladies Society Orchestra, offers both wit and lively music, loosely tied, but not overbearingly so, to a feminist theme. Although group may have to start traveling with its own marquee to handle its moniker, outfit is an obvious crowd pleaser at the nonmarqueed Bla Bla, where it puts in regular weekend stints. Much
of the material is of the Dixieland and ragtime genre, some authentically
so, others original, but authentically flavored. Group, which parades
on stage a la New Orleans, playing everything from tuba to washboard,
mugs along in an appropriate spirit, with a lead warbler more than
vaguely reminiscent of Maria Muldaur. Musicianship is just as mood
setting as the thrift shop selections from the Dixieland days all
members wear. Outfit returns the first two Fridays in April. |