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Formed by bandleader Evan "Bibs" Palazzo and lead singer "Miz Elizabeth" Bougerol, The Hot Sardines have released their sophomore studio album, French Fries & Champagne on Universal Music Classics. The record comes on the heels of their critically lauded self-titled debut album, which was named one of iTunes' best jazz albums of 2014 and spent more than a year on the Billboard Jazz Chart, debuting in the top 10 alongside Michael Bublé and Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga.

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The Hot Sardines play 'Arizona Musicfest' and make Phoenix New Times '10 best concerts'

Posted At: February 10, 2020 12:00 AM

With an affinity for Louis Armstrong, Django Reinhardt, and Fats Waller, New York's The Hot Sardines clearly know their way around hot jazz and Dixieland. Fronted by pianist-bandleader Evan "Bibs" Palazzo and Paris-born singer Miz Elizabeth, the ensemble serve up some energetic foot-stomping jazz while laying back on some gorgeous ballads found in their discography, including 2019's Welcome Home, Bon...
The Hot Sardines at MIM makes the Phoenix New Times 'best concerts this week'

Posted At: December 31, 2018 12:00 AM

While the swinging selections of ragtime and jazz that the Hot Sardines perform may tend to be more than 100 years old, their audience is definitely not. "We see people from 18 to 80 in our shows … this music really does cross demographic lines," says singer Elizabeth Bougerol. "That's one of the reasons, I think, these songs have endured so long." Bougerol first met pianist Evan "Bibs" Pa...
By popular demand, The Hot Sardines, back at the Colonial Theater / Idaho Falls Magazine

Posted At: April 3, 2018 12:00 AM

The Idaho Falls Arts Council is pleased to present The Hot Sardines on May 1 at the Colonial Theater. Back by popular demand, The Hot Sardines are making old jazz new again and having a party along the way. The New York based group will have die-hard jazz fans and casual listeners alike dancing in the aisles with their brassy horn arrangements, rollicking piano melodies, vocals that will transport you to...
The Hot Sardines set for Sarasota's Van Wezel PAC / BroadwayWorld

Posted At: January 30, 2018 12:00 AM

Music first made famous decades ago comes alive with The Hot Sardines at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall on Sunday, February 18, 2018 at 7:00PM. In the hot jazz movement, The Hot Sardines stand apart for the innovation, verve and sheer joy they bring to music, both new and old. The band transports listeners to a different era through their brassy horn arrangements, rollicking piano melodies, and vocal...
The Hot Sardines, set to headline Northwest Jazz Festival / WGRZ - NBC Channel 2

Posted At: August 19, 2017 12:00 AM

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Arial} What do you get when you mix fabulous music, wonderful food and wine from the Niagara Wine Trail and a fantastic setting in one of our areas most historic villages? It's the 16th Annual Northwest Jazz Festival in Lewiston NY, taking place this coming Friday and Saturday, August 25th and 26th. Featuring over 30 bands The Hot Sardines are h...
Hot Sardines return to the Wharton Center / Lansing State Journal

Posted At: March 29, 2017 12:00 AM

The Hot Sardines were last in East Lansing two years ago at the 500-plus-seat Wharton Center Pasant Theater. The show was a sell-out, and the auditorium was filled with enthusiastic fans. This time the popular retro-jazz group will appear on March 30th in the 2500-seat Great Hall, and Wharton is expecting another sell-out. When I asked the group's co-founder, Evan Palazzo, to describe the music,...
The Hot Sardines set for City Opera House / Traverse City Record Eagle

Posted At: March 26, 2017 12:00 AM

Back by popular demand with a new album, The Hot Sardines return to Traverse City MI - City Opera House next week, March 29. Wrapped up in the excellent vocals (English/French) and musicianship (sax, clarinet, piano, drums, trombone, bass, washboard - yes! washboard!) one cannot escape the high energy and flirtatious feel steeped into the show - complete with tap dancer. You leave wanting more - hen...
Hot Sardines & RPO set for Eastman Theatre shows / Rochester City Newspaper

Posted At: March 22, 2017 12:00 AM

The Hot Sardines will play with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra will perform on Friday, March 24, and Saturday, March 25, at Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre. He was a travel writer educated at the London School of Economics and he was a New York actor. But when Elizabeth Bougerol met Evan Palazzo at a jam session in 2007, they bonded over their love of Fats Waller. Turns out Bougerol could sing li...
Jason Moran and The Hot Sardines tribute Fats Waller / San Francisco Chronicle

Posted At: March 10, 2017 12:00 AM

The Hot Sardines, will join Jason Moran tomorrow, Saturday March 11 at Oakland's wondrous Art Deco masterpiece, the Paramount Theatre for their - Fats Waller celebration. The Paramount was built as a movie palace, not a dance hall, and Moran will be well complimented from the vintage syncopated snap of the Hot Sardines. They will draw from the well of Waller, Louis Armst...
Hot Sardines play UP, and party really gets started / Bradford Era

Posted At: January 16, 2017 12:00 AM

It was a darkened, smoky room, filled with laughter and high spirits as the infectious, upbeat jazz of The Hot Sardines filled the air - well, not really. But that's what it felt like at the Bromeley Family Theater at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford on Saturday night during the last concert of the season for Pitt-Bradford's Prism series. Musicians Mike Sailors on trombone and cornet; Jason Prove...
Hot Sardines 'holiday stomp' Bard College / The Daily Freeman

Posted At: December 23, 2016 12:00 AM

The Hot Sardines bring big-brass excitement to Bard College's Fisher Center on Annandale-on-Hudson >> with their Holiday Stomp concert today, Friday Dec. 23. The Sardines, who played Bard's Spiegeltent in the summers of 2013 and 2014, blend holiday classics with New York, New Orleans and Paris jazz. Their set list includes Christmas classics like "White Christmas" and "Please Come Home...
Cincinnati Pops set for a 'Speakeasy New Year's Eve' with The Hot Sardines / Broadway World

Posted At: December 18, 2016 12:00 AM

The Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, under the direction of Conductor John Morris Russell, will ring in the New Year with the jazz band The Hot Sardines on Saturday, December 31 (8 p.m.) at the Taft Theatre in Downtown Cincinnati. The speakeasy-themed concert will feature jazz and swing selections, perfect for the Taft's Art Deco era architecture. Based in New York City, The Hot Sardines has establishe...
The Hot Sardines present 'Holiday Stomp!' / Maryville Daily Times

Posted At: December 1, 2016 12:00 AM

It was musical chemistry at first sight when Elizabeth Bougerol first approached Evan Palazzo at a jazz jam above a Manhattan noodle shop back in 2007. Or rather, first listen, Palazzo told The Daily Times this week. "She asked me if I knew this song called ‘Your Feet's Too Big' by Fats Waller, which is very obscure, and not very many people play it - but it happens to be one of my favorites that h...
The Hot Sardines are destined for greatness / Blasting News

Posted At: November 29, 2016 12:00 AM

If brutal but subtle is not on the palette for the day, then there is no better way to change gears than to take notice of "The Hot Sardines" because they may be the most talented jazz band to come from #America since The Squirrel Nut Zippers. Pianist Evan Palazzo has a playing approach that easily puts him on par with the greats of jazz from any genre (including the old masters) while singer and band co...
The Hot Sardines set for Mason City & Des Moines / Radio Iowa interview

Posted At: October 25, 2016 12:00 AM

A New York-based band playing jazz from the 1920s, '30s and '40s is making two Iowa stops this weekend on its latest national tour. Backed by a piano, a stand-up bass, a full horn section and a percussion section that includes a tap dancer, Elizabeth Bougerol is the lead singer for The Hot Sardines. "It's wonderful to listen to an old Billie Holiday record but there's something to hearing this music live...
The Hot Sardines swing into The Egg / Albany Times Union review

Posted At: October 1, 2016 12:00 AM

New York City's Hot Sardines swung into The Egg's Swyer Theatre on Friday evening, the same night the like-minded Postmodern Jukebox was playing down the street at the Palace Theatre. The difference between the two bands is that while Postmodern Jukebox re-interprets today's contemporary pop hits in vintage style and arrangements, the Hot Sardines go all in, reviving the songs as well as the ...
The Hot Sardines - French Fries & Champagne / Jazz Weekly review

Posted At: September 22, 2016 12:00 AM

The Hot Sardines make you want to party like it's 1929 on this collection of originals and Prohibition Era covers. Sweet as cider vocals by "Miz Elizabeth" Bougerol are two stepped swung by Evan Palazzo/key, Sam Raderman/g, Evan Crane/b, Alex Raderman/dr and a horn section of Mike Sailors and Nick Myers. Bougeral is sassy as the trumpet growls on "Runnin' Wild" and slinks through some pizzicato strings a...
The Hot Sardines celebrate 'National French Fry Day' w/pop-up perf at DUMBO - Shake Shack

Posted At: July 13, 2016 12:00 AM

The Hot Sardines celebrate National French Fry Day w/pop-up perf at NYC's DUMBO - Shake Shack Today Wednesday, July 13 from 6-6:30PM! The band's new album, French Fries & Champagne is in style with sweet tunes and complimentary fries for our guests. This event is totally free and open to the public, so bring your jazziest friends and family! Each year on July 13, many people will par...
The Hot Sardines - FF&C / Straits Times: Hot Tracks review

Posted At: July 12, 2016 12:00 AM

New York ensemble The Hot Sardines play hot swing with a twist of self-aware glee. If Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox is too modern and millennial mash-up for you, The Hot Sardines' more purist style will be up your alley. Band leader Evan "Bibs" Palazzo's approach is strictly swingstyle, but jazzed up with smart arrangements. A perfect demonstration of this is the clever tweak of Okla...
The Hot Sardines make #1 spot on BIllboard - Traditional Jazz Albums Chart

Posted At: July 11, 2016 12:00 AM

The Hot Sardines are Evan "Bibs" Palazzo and lead singer "Miz Elizabeth" Bougerol joined by a polished musical collective. The band's sophomore studio album, French Fries & Champagne, was released June 17 on Decca hitting #1 on both iTunes and Amazon Jazz Charts. Defying typical sales trends, the record increased sales in its second week, and climbed up the charts to #1 on the BIllboard Tradition...
The Hot Sardines play NYC's SummerStage / Bandsintown

Posted At: July 6, 2016 12:00 AM

One of the best parts about living in NYC is the incredible programming the City Parks Foundation puts together in the form of SummerStage. What could possibly be better than great music in Central Park in the Big Apple? Not much, we're pretty sure. On June 25, we caught The Hot Sardines for a day of wild jazz that left us tapping our feet and jaunting in the clammy New York summer air. Form...
Hot Sardines play Toronto Jazz Festival / examiner.com Q&A

Posted At: June 29, 2016 12:00 AM

The TD Toronto Jazz Festival began the celebration of its 30th anniversary on June 24. This year audiences will have a chance to hear more than 400 performances and over 2,000 musicians (expect emerging stars) at close to 50 venues. In addition to ticketed shows, the festival also has many free admission events both indoor and outdoor. The TD Jazz Festival runs from June 24-July 3. In the very first year...
The Hot Sardines - French Fries & Champagne / NPR: Weekend Edition Saturday

Posted At: June 26, 2016 12:00 AM

Formed by bandleader Evan "Bibs" Palazzo and lead singer "Miz Elizabeth" Bougerol, The Hot Sardines sophomore studio album, French Fries & Champagne on Universal Music Classics comes on the heels of their critically lauded self-titled debut album, which was named one of iTunes' best jazz albums of 2014 and spent more than a year on the Billboard Jazz Chart, debuting in the top 10 alongside Michae...
The Hot Sardines - French Fries & Champagne / Paste review

Posted At: June 22, 2016 12:00 AM

Jazz-Dixieland stalwarts The Hot Sardines are one of a select handful of newer bands playing old school, 1930s-style swing music. The band is celebrating their 9th year on the jazz circuit with the release of their sophomoric studio album French Fries & Champagne. The follow up to their largely successful self-titled debut recording, French Fries & Champagne showcases some of the best that the cu...
Hot Sardines play Dolce & Gabbana's Spring 2017 Men's Show / Vogue

Posted At: June 21, 2016 12:00 AM

On Saturday June 18, one day after their new album French Fries & Champagne was released, The Hot Sardines played Dolce & Gabbana's Spring 2017 menswear collection show in Milan Italy. The band performed live on the runway and like any Dolce & Gabbana production, this one was filled with buzzy moments. From the front row stars to the models to the clothes themsel...
Hot Sardines 'When I Get Low I Get High' video stars Alan Cumming / New York Times Style Magazine

Posted At: June 16, 2016 12:00 AM

"I think the descriptor we used for the video was ‘Weimar acid trip,'" says Elizabeth Bougerol, the lead singer of the jazz collective the Hot Sardines, of the visual accompaniment to "When I Get Low I Get High," an Ella Fitzgerald cover that's the centerpiece of the band's new album, "French Fries and Champagne." "As we were brainstorming what exactly we meant by that, our director Alex Peacock br...
The Hot Sardines play NYC's Joe's Pub with Surprise Guest Alan Cumming / Bandsintown

Posted At: June 16, 2016 12:00 AM

Joe's Pub is becoming a cornerstone club in New York City. Opened in 1998, the spot is an intimate music venue with the perfect mood lighting for a romantic date. In my case, it provided a great low-key vibe for a Tuesday night performance by The Hot Sardines. If your first thought now is "Who?", let me introduce you to the band: singer Elizabeth Bougerol and pianist Evan Palazzo lead the jazz collective...
The Hot Sardines play Ronnie Scott's / theguardian review

Posted At: June 10, 2016 12:00 AM

The Hot Sardines, those coolly stylish New York frontrunners of the current fedoras-and-flappers early-jazz boom, are touring their second album, French Fries & Champagne. The title nails this likable outfit's agenda – 21st-century disposability and golden-age opulence merged. Compared to their unselfconsciously vivacious Barbican show last year, they sounded a little overawed in the hallowed j...
The Hot Sardines sizzle at Salisbury Playhouse / Salisbury Journal

Posted At: June 8, 2016 12:00 AM

The Hot Sardines performed to a sell-out crowd at Salisbury Playhouse last night (Monday) - delivering a lively and vibrant evening of jazz. You couldn't help but tap your feet to the amazing music with the fabulous vocals of frontwoman 'Miz Elizabeth' Bougerol. This was the first time the band, who hail from the US, have performed in the city and I hope they will return again soon. As a comp...
Hot Sardines are WHLI - Artist of the Week

Posted At: December 16, 2014 12:00 AM

It's a great American success story. A born-and-bred NYC actor meets a Parisian-born writer at an open jazz jam over a noodle shop in Manhattan, and from there the Hot Sardines were born. Bandleader Evan "Bibs" Palazzo and lead singer Miz Elizabeth combine with the Sardine ensemble of powerhouse musicians – and their very own tap dancer – to play "hot jazz" as it was in the era when live musi...
The Hot Sardines - London Evening Standard review

Posted At: November 3, 2014 12:00 AM

The Hot Sardines have been tearing up New York with their salty mix of zinging strings, blustery horns and Fats Waller-style stride piano. This debut album shows why. Whether covering such early jazz classics as Your Feet's Too Big and Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen, a song made popular by The Andrews Sisters, or delivering authentic sounding originals including the enchanting Wake Up in Paris, the octet cha...
The Hot Sardines - Audiophile Audition review

Posted At: October 30, 2014 12:00 AM

Music from another era but not stuck in traditional jazz jelly. This is the second big disc from The Hot Sardines, a musical magic octet (usually) who use a leader and stride piano player in the Fats Waller style, plus a hot brass section and swinging rhythm section. The several vocals come from their one female member, who sings in both French and English. Her rendition of Fats Waller's "Your Feet...