TOM SANCTON PERFORMANCES APRIL-MAY 2018

April 25: Palm Court Jazz Cafe, 1206 Decatur Street, New Orleans. With Lars Edegran band featuring Topsy Chapman,  8 p.m. - 11p.m.

April 26: Palm Court Jazz Cafe, 1206 Decatur Street, New Orleans. With Clive Wilson Serenaders featuring Butch Thompson. 8 p.m. - 11p.m.

April 27: Jazzfest, Economy Hall Tent, with Clive Wilson's Serenaders featuring Butch Thompson. Time TBA.

April 29: Preservation Hall, 726 St. Peter Street, with the Wendell Brunious Jazz Band. 7-10 p.m.

May 4: Brennan’s on Royal Street, with the Seva Venet trio.
4-7pm.

May 6: Jazzfest, Economy Hall Tent, with New Orleans Legacy Band. 1:40-2:40 p.m.

May 8: Palm Court Jazz Cafe, 1296 Decatur St., with Lars Edegran All Stars, 7-10 p.m.

May 12: Palm Court Jazz Cafe, 1296 Decatur St., with Lars Edegran All Stars, 7-10 p.m.

May 13: Preservation Hall, 726 St. Peter Street, with the Wendell Brunious Jazz Band. 7-10 p.m.

TOM SANCTON'S PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE FEB-MAY 2018

February 24: Le Gramophone, 9 Grande Rue, 78160 Marly-le-Roi, France With pianist David Paquette. 8 p.m. - 11 p.m.

March 8: Octavia Bookstore, 513 Octavia St., New Orleans 70115. Presentation and readings from THE BETTENCOURT AFFAIR. 6 p.m.

March 25: Presbytere, 751 Charters Street, New Orleans, 70116, 2 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Presentation and readings from THE BETTENCOURT AFFAIR, under the auspices of the Faulkner Society.

April 7: Palm Court Jazz Cafe, 1206 Decatur Street, New Orleans. With Lars Edegran band. 8 p.m. - 11p.m.

April 14: Preservation Hall, 726 St. Peter St., New Orleans. With Lars Edegran band, 1 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.

April 14: Palm Court Jazz Cafe, 1206 Decatur Street, New Orleans. With Lars Edegran band. 8 p.m. - 11p.m.

April 15: Preservation Hall, 726 St. Peter St., New Orleans. With Seva Venet String Band, 12 p.m. - 12:45 p.m.

April 15: French Quarter Festival, 600 Bourbon, with Clive Wilson's Serenaders, 3 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.

April 15: French Quarter Festival, 600 Bourbon, with New Orleans Legacy Band, 4:30 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.

April 25: Palm Court Jazz Cafe, 1206 Decatur Street, New Orleans. With Lars Edegran band. 8 p.m. - 11p.m.

April 26: Palm Court Jazz Cafe, 1206 Decatur Street, New Orleans. With Clive Wilson Serenaders featuring Butch Thompson. 8 p.m. - 11p.m.

April 27: Jazzfest, Economy Hall Tent, with Clive Wilson's Serenaders featuring Butch Thompson. Time TBA.

May 6: Jazzfest, Economy Hall Tent, with New Orleans Legacy Band featuring Jason Marsalis. Time TBA.

TOM SANCTON PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE, APRIL 2014

Tuesday, April 1: Columns Hotel, Classic Jazz Trio featuring John Rankin and Charlie Halloran. 8- 11 pm.

Wednesday, April 9: Preservation Hall with Seva Venet String Band, 4 - 6 pm. Palm Court with Lars Edegran Band and vocalist Topsy Chapman, 1206 Decatur St, 8 - 11 pm.

Saturday, April 12: FRENCH QUARTER FESTIVAL

     500 Bourbon Stage, with Clive Wilson's New Orleans Serenaders, 1:45 - 3:45 pm

     600 Bourbon Stage, with Lars Edegran All Stars, 3:45 - 5:45 pm

Sunday, April 13: FRENCH QUARTER FESTIVAL

     Old U.S. Mint, with Society Brass Band, 11:15 - 12:30 pm. 

     600 Bourbon Stage, with New Orleans Legacy Band featuring Shannon Powell, 1:30 - 3:30 pm/

Wednesday, April 16 Palm Court, 1206 Decatur St., with Lars Edegran's Palm Court All Stars, featuring vocalist Topsy Chapman. 8 - 11 pm.

Saturday, April 19: Palm Court, 1206 Decatur St, with Lionel Ferbos Band, 8 - 11 pm.

Sunday, April 20: Preservation Hall, 726 St. Peter St., with the New Orleans Legacy Band, 8 - 11 pm.

Wednesday, April 23: Palm Court, 1206 Decatur St., with Lars Edegran's Palm Court All Stars, featuring vocalist Topsy Chapman. 8 - 11 pm.

Sunday, April 27: Preservation Hall, 726 St. Peter St., with Wendell Brunious Band featuring Tom Hook. 8 - 11 pm.

Wednesday, April 30: National Jazz Park (3rd floor auditorium in Old U.S. Mint, with Clive Wilson's New Orlens Serenaders, 2 - 3:30 pm.

TOMMY SANCTON GIGLIST - JULY - SEPTEMBER 2013

I'll be spending the entire summer in Europe, so my usual appearances in New Orleans are suspended until the end of September.

Here's a short list of my European concerts this summer:

Monday, July 1: Zofingen (Switzerland) Jazz Festival with The Vintage Jazzmen of France

Thursday, July 4:  Castello Colloredo (Italy) with Luciano Invernizzi's New Orleans Jazz Band.

Saturday, July 6: Baden-Baden (Germany) with the Trevor Richards Jazz Band.

Friday, July 12:  Le Gramophone, Marly-le-Roi (France), with Enzo Mucci and Gilles Chevaucherie.

Thursday, Aug 1 / Friday Aug 2: Femø Jazz Festival (Denmark), with The Vintage Jazzmen of France

Friday, August 30: Le Gramophone, Marly-le-Roi (France), with Enzo Mucci, bass, and Christophe Davot, guitar.

BLACK EAGLE REUNION BAND ON FQF

The Black Eagles are back in town! Well, some of them, anyway. The band's original front line (cornetist Tony Pringle, trombonist Jim Klippert and myself on clarinet) will be reunited with Black Eagle banjoist Peter Bullis at the Palm Court Jazz Café on Wednesday, April 7, 8 - 11 pm. We will be joined by Lars Edegran on piano, Kerry Lewis on bass and Frank Oxley on drums. (Cf. article in this week's Gambit:http://www.bestofneworleans.com/gambit/tom-sanctons-black-eagle-reunion-band/Content?oid=1658579

This will mark the first time the original Boston-based Black Eagles have played together in New Orleans since our appearance at Jazzfest in 1971, the year we recorded our first album with the legendary Chester Zardis on bass. The Jazzfest gig will live forever in our memories because Kid Ory was sitting on the front row and shook our hands after our set. (Woody Allen was also on hand, waiting in the wings with the Galvanized Washboard Band.)

After I graduated from college and left Boston in 1971, the band was reorganized as the New Black Eagle Jazz Band and went on to fame (if not fortune) with U.S. and European tours and numerous recordings. And they're still at it 40 years later! (Check their website: blackeagles.com)

In addition to the Palm Court gig (1206 Decatur Street), the Black Eagle Reunion Band will play on the French Quarter Festival on Sunday, April 10, 1:15 - 3:15, 600 block of Bourbon Street. Copies of our now historic 1971 CD will be on sale at both venues (also available through the blackeagle website).

Y'all come!