Mood Area 52 + Whiteaker Hot Club

Name: Mood Area 52 + Whiteaker Hot Club
Genre: Americana, Swing, Jazz
Released: 2025-12-12
Duration: 2 h

An evening of music featuring two of Eugene's finest local bands: Mood Area 52 and Whiteaker Hot Club! Mood Area 52: Mood Area 52 started in 1998 as a Piazzola inspired neo-tango and silent film score ensemble. Since then the group has morphed into an ensemble defined more by instrumentation and mood than genre. Their most recent releases, Find Some Kind of Light, Company Town, and 1952 Philanski House, blend roots rock, instrumental tango, jazz, blues, Balkan influences, ranchera, and American folk, country, Brechtian cabaret, and classical music. The Band performs acoustically as a trio with Michael Roderick and cellist Amy Danziger, and Billy Barnett and expands combining the talents of accordionist and vocalist Michael Roderick, cellist Amy Danziger, violinist Julia Frantz, bassist Dan Schmid, and drummer Don Elkington. Mood Area 52 has performed with The Squirrel Nut Zippers, Naim Amor, Chuck Palhnuik, The Damo Suzuki Network, Rasputina, The Tin Hat Trio, Slowpoke, Amy Denio, Devotchka, David Lindley, Marianne Dissard, The Vagabond Opera, Jason Webley's "Monsters of Accordion," Mark Growden, Kim Boekbinder and The Vermillion Lies, The Fishtank Ensemble, and many other polite and brilliant musicians. They perform in venues ranging from clubs to festival stages to alzheimers wards, accompanying burlesque troops and providing original soundtracks to golden age films. Whiteaker Hot Club: Sparked in 2017, the Whiteaker Hot Club has torched venues up and down the West coast with their musical prowess and improvisational bedlam. Rooted with inspiration from legendary guitarist Django Reinhardt and his groundbreaking ensemble the Quintette du Hot Club de France, and paired with the sounds of early American swing with a haze of modernity, the Whiteaker Hot Club isn't your typical sit down jazz band. Bring your dancing shoes and join the club!Americana, Swing, JazzPT2H2025-12-12Mood Area 52 + Whiteaker Hot Club"Mood Area 52 + Whiteaker Hot Club"Live Events, Live Music

Showtimes

December 12, 8:00 pm