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Lizzy and The Triggermen
Admiral Theatre Recommendation: If you like modern swing big bands like Cherry Poppin’ Daddies, and genre-bending acts like Postmodern Jukebox, you’ll love Lizzy and the Triggermen.
Lizzy and The Triggermen
Friday, November 22, 2024
Doors 6:30 p.m. | Show 7:30 p.m.
Tickets start at $19 (incl. fees)
Upper Balcony $19
Balcony $24
Loge $34
Main Floor $44
This show is included in 2024-2025 full season tickets, half season package B, and the Spotlight Series. No dinner service at this show. Concessions and the bars will be open. All Ages. Bars for 21+.
Dubbed "10-piece jazz sensations" (LA Weekly) and "one of the hottest swing bands in LA" (Good Day LA), Lizzy & the Triggermen is forging a path like no other.
Underneath the old school glamour is a captivatingly modern band who is just as at home selling out legendary venues like the Troubadour as topping the jazz charts (#3 iTunes) alongside heavyweights like Miles Davis and Kamasi Washington.
Part of Lizzy & the Triggermen’s “time traveling genius” (Music Connection) is their ability to thrillingly marry the old with the new, simultaneously transporting the audience back in time, and forward. Like the great tunes of the 1930s which so inspire them, their music boldly tackles our modern troubles and turns them into killer dance songs that fill the audience with joy the way only a wailing horn section can. As their debut EP succinctly states: they make “Good Songs for Bad Times.”
At the helm is Lizzy: a charismatic siren with a searing wit and soaring voice. Her “powerhouse vocals” (Broadway World), forged singing opera, recall the great old divas while still sounding completely unique and new. Her songwriting, which Janis Ian likened to Leonard Cohen, is filled with the same biting humor she used to create TV comedies for HBO, Amazon, Legendary, CBS, and the History Channel, garnering multiple Emmy nominations.
But the star power doesn’t stop with Lizzy. It emanates through her entire incredible band, a multi-generational dream team of crushers who have played with everyone from Wynton Marsalis to Benny Goodman.
While the band is deeply rooted in the sound and swagger of bands like Basie and Ellington, their music is infused with a myriad of unexpected influences: from R&B to Bebop to Broadway to Indie Rock to even Opera. As Lizzy and her musical director, Dan Barrett (who played with and arranged for Benny Goodman), decided from the jump: they weren’t going to pretend like the last 90 years of music hadn’t happened.
There is no doubt that what Lizzy & the Triggermen are doing is audaciously against the grain…but it is clearly resonating across an incredibly broad range of audiences.
It is a testament to how versatile and visceral their music is that they have not only toured with iconic rock band, Squeeze, to standing ovations and calls for encores, but also have been selected for top festivals (Tucson Jazz Festival, SXSW) and recently co-headlined Modernism Week alongside Samara Joy and Nancy Sinatra.
Thank you to all of our 2024-2025 season, series and show sponsors! Sponsorships available. For details, contact Development Director Nita Hartley at 360.932.3051 or nita@admiraltheatre.org
Season Sponsors:
GEICO Local Office - Kevin & Janice Krieger
Cascade PBS
Kitsap Bank
West Hills Autoplex
Spotlight Series Sponsors: available
Exclusive Show Sponsors: Drs. Rose & Dale Holdren
Good Co.
Good Co.
Friday, March 29, 2024
Doors 6 p.m. | Show 7:30 p.m.
Tickets start at $14 (incl. fees)
Upper Balcony $14
Balcony $19
Loge $24
Main Floor $39
This show is included in 2023-2024 full season tickets, half season package B, and the Music Series. No dinner service at this show. Concessions and the bars will be open. All Ages. Bars for 21+.
Traversing Funk, Pop, Electro Swing, and everything danceable, Good Co is the soundtrack for your next dance party.
Coming straight out of the Jazz Age, Good Co is bringing a growling speakeasy sound with an added dash of the electronic funk so desperately needed in today's hectic workaday world. Brassy, flashy, and always a little sassy, Good Co is reimagining the dance music of today by taking the sound and style of the past and flipping it on its head. Get ready for a brand new sound custom made to make you feel good.
Bandleader Carey Rayburn is originally from Seabeck, WA and is a graduate of Klahowya Secondary School and the UW forming Good Co. and becoming a Northwest touring act.
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Thank you to all of our 2023-2024 season and show sponsors! Sponsorships available. For details, contact Development Director Nita Hartley at 360.932.3051 or nita@admiraltheatre.org.
Season Sponsors:
GEICO Local Office - Kevin & Janice Krieger
Hill Worldwide Moving Services
KCTS 9 PBS Seattle / Cascade Public Media
Kitsap Bank
West Hills Auto Plex
Music Series Sponsors:
Sheila & Charles Hart
Exclusive Show Sponsor:
Julia Nuti
Gunhild Carling
Gunhild Carling
Sweden's Queen of Swing
Friday, April 28, 2023
Doors 6 p.m. | Show 7:30 p.m.
Tickets start at $24 (incl. fees)
Upper Balcony $24
Balcony $24
Loge $39
Main Floor $54
This show is included in 2022-2023 full season tickets, half season package B, and the Spotlight Series. No dinner service at this show. Concessions and the bars will be open.
Singer | Musician | Dancer | Entertainer
Swedish musical sensation Gunhild Carling is an internationally-acclaimed superstar whose show is a can’t-miss event! Whether she’s singing favorite swinging jazz standards, playing one of many instruments (trumpet, trombone, harmonica, oboe, harp, flute, recorder, or jazz bagpipe!) or juggling and tap dancing, Gunhild’s sublime showmanship shines. And just wait for the finale – spoiler alert – she plays three trumpets at once!
Carling competed as a celebrity dancer in Let’s Dance 2014 on TV4 placing third. She was also on Sweden’s Dancing with The Stars. Gunhild performed for Sweden’s Got Talent in 2017 and appeared on America’s Got Talent season 2019.
She recently performed with her 'Carling Big Band' at the Royal Palace in Stockholm in the celebration for King Carl XVI Gustaf's Ruby Jubilee. Performing such great memorable vintage songs such as "Minnie the Moocher," "Sweet Georgia Brown," "All of Me," "It Had to Be You," and an endless repertoire of songs, Gunhild masterfully takes you back to another era like a time machine.
Between Touring with her own band, she performs in several configurations from solo to orchestra to symphony and as a featured singer and multi-instrumentalist in several of Postmodern Jukebox's songs, including a 1920s jazz swing version of "Material Girl", and a 1920s hot jazz cover of ABBA's "Dancing Queen”. Gunhild Carling keeps serenading audiences in the US and all around the world today.
The Admiral Theatre’s 2022-2023 Spotlight Series is generously sponsored by Sheila & Charles Hart
This show is generously sponsored by:
Denise Farkas & Jennifer Christine
Patrick & Peggy Rammel
Sponsorships available. For details, contact Development Director Nita Hartley at 360.932.3051 or nita@admiraltheatre.org
Glenn Miller Orchestra
Glenn Miller Orchestra
Friday, March 25, 2022
Doors 5:30 p.m. | Show 7 p.m.
Tickets start at $18 (incl. fees)
Upper Balcony $18
Balcony $32
Loge $56
Main Floor $57
This show is included in the full season package and half season package B. Dining details for 2022 will be posted as soon as available.
The Glenn Miller Orchestra is the most popular and sought after big band in the world today for both concert and swing dance engagements. With its unique jazz sound and hits including “In The Mood,” “Tuxedo Junction,” “Little Brown Jug,” and “Pennsylvania 6-5000,” the Glenn Miller Orchestra is considered to be one of the greatest bands of all time.
The present Glenn Miller Orchestra was formed in 1956 and has been touring consistently since, playing an average of 300 live dates a year all around the world.
Exclusively Sponsored by Fred & Julia Nuti