FALMOUTH – The Dirty Rotten Vipers, a high-energy New Orleans jazz band from Provincetown (and New Orleans) put on a fantastic show at Falmouth Harbor on Saturday night.
This was the second show this summer in the cool-and-growing Harbor Light Illumination Concert Series. (Greg Loftus was last week’s show)
The Dirty Rotten Vipers, fronted by the incomparable Will Harrington on piano, played old standards with a street energy they get from their years playing the streets of Provincetown in the summer and the streets of New Orleans in the winter. This summer, they are playing every Sunday night at the Old Colony Tap in Provincetown.
The band is Harrington on piano, Jimbo Lockhart on drums, Alexander Michael on guitar, Reece Ashley on tuba, Efram Towns on trumpet, Deangelo Nieves on trumpet and saxophone, and Megan Gillis on trombone and xylophone.
The song in this video is “Russian Lullaby” which, according to Harrington is an old Russian folk song that was recorded and made popular by Irving Berlin. This is the the Dirty Rotten Vipers high energy version of that song. The xylophone solo by Gillis is incredible.
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