Virtuoso Seva Venet — a traditional banjoist and guitarist said to channel the spirit of Django Reinhardt and Danny Barker in his traditional jazz stylings — will lead the Storyville String Band of New Orleans in an Oct. 26 performance at the Dew Drop Jazz & Social Hall in its Old Mandeville home.
The doors at 430 Lamarque St. open at 5:30 p.m.; music from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.; $10 cash at the door for adults, while students and youth are free.
The band describes itself as loosely based around Edmond “Doc” Souchon’s 6⅞ths String Band of New Orleans that formed around 1911. At that time, the band played rags, pop songs and novelty numbers of the early jazz era, as well as revisiting the traditional 19th-century New Orleans string (aka “dance”) bands. Venet also composes original music that recalls the same roots, style and feeling of the early New Orleans string ensembles, making him a leader in recreating the old musical sounds of south Louisiana so well known back in the day…