"Take a blustery brass front line, add salty stride piano in the timeless image of Fats Waller and a frontwoman with the attitude and style of a '30s cabaret diva and you have The Hot Sardines in a seashell. And that's not to mention the tap dancer!

The Sardine sound is steeped in hot jazz, gypsy swing - a slice of between-the-wars Paris via the New Orleans."

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