by Charlie Barnett | Apr 14, 2015 | News, Recipes
It’s our newest instrumental number. It’s the name of our upcoming CD. And now, thanks to resident Chaise Lounge mixologist Pete Ostle, “Gin Fizz Fandango” is also a cocktail! Band members dutifully taste-tested Pete’s concoction at our rehearsal Monday night and pronounced it both frothy and delicious.
We hope that bartenders at The Hamilton will be serving the drink at our show there this Friday, April 17. But if you just can’t wait, you can make one at home. Here’s Pete’s recipe:
1½ oz. gin
1 oz. St. Germaine
1 oz. fresh lemon juice
1 oz. simple syrup
1 oz. table cream
1 egg white or 1 heaping bar spoon of dried egg white powder
Peychaud’s cocktail bitters
Put all ingredients except Peychaud’s bitters into a cocktail shaker. Shake well with ice. Strain into a stemmed up-glass such as a martini glass. To decorate, garnish with a few shakes of Peychaud’s on top.
by Charlie Barnett | Feb 15, 2015 | News
Love was in the air at our Valentine’s Day concert. Really! Two couples got engaged during the course of a two-hour show. Maybe the proposals were planned…or maybe the suitors were overcome by the romance of our songs. Who’s to say?
For our part, we were overcome by the hospitality of the staff at the Cabaret at Fredericksburg Square. They showed us and our V-Day dates a wonderful time.
Here is a snapshot of Pete preparing for the gig.
by Charlie Barnett | Jan 25, 2015 | News
We’ve been back in the studio for the past couple of weeks, adding a few tracks our new CD. When we started the project last year, it was going to be called Tick Tock, after a dark, moody new song we had. Later, we decided to name the album Mambo Noir, after an even darker, moodier, newer song. As of last week, we’re sure that the album will be called Gin Fizz Fandango, after the newest song we’ve performed so far. The track is a trombone feature, and Joe Jackson sounds fantastic on it. The feel? You guessed it—dark and moody. The rest of the album is full of peppy, bright, and happy tracks. But for some reason these never seem like good names for albums. Can someone tell us why this is? We’re getting all dark and moody trying to figure it out.
by Charlie Barnett | Jan 9, 2015 | Gallery, Photos
Photographs by Heidi Oberstadt, December 2014
by Charlie Barnett | Jan 3, 2015 | Gallery, Photos
Photo by Amos Perrine
