Sunny Side 7-Piece Jazz Band from New Orleans with Victoria Douton

DDORS at 7:00pm

Sunny Side

Sunny Side is a jazz band based out of New Orleans, Louisiana. They are heavily influenced by the music of Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Nat King Cole, Fats Waller, and many other early jazz legends. The band name ‘Sunny Side’ was influenced by the 1930 Fats Waller/Jimmy McHugh jazz standard ‘On the Sunny Side of the Street’. The band was created in 2019, and is composed of musicians that have played together in various jazz projects around New Orleans since 2017.

Sunny Side provides a full New Orleans style jazz band experience with 3 part harmonies, a solid rhythm section, and an energetic vocalist and dancer. Expect to become a part of the experience as Sunny Side engages with the energy and sound of what makes New Orleans such a special city. Be prepared to dance and sing.

During the 2020/2021 quarantine, Sunny Side provided a ‘Jazz in Coliseum Square Park’ series in the Lower Garden District of New Orleans hosting a variety of live music including themselves. Many locals expressed much gratitude for the music during the challenging time.

In 2024 Sunny Side is planning their fourth national tour stopping in cities and towns between New Orleans, New York, and Ohio playing a variety of shows including several swing dance events.
Sunny Side has also been playing regularly for private events and weddings since January of 2020. In 2021 and 2023 Sunny Side won a “Best of Weddings” award going to the top 5% of wedding bands on Theknot.com

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Victoria Doutón is a composer and multi-instrumentalist from Montevideo, Uruguay.
She studied classical flute at the National Conservatory of Music in Montevideo as well as the Montevideo University School of Music.
She spent time in different countries including Venezuela, Ecuador, Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Brazil.
After a few years in Rio de Janeiro she moved to the US. She lived in Austin where she started collaborating with world-renown international musicians. After a few months she made her way to New Orleans to be fully immersed in the rich musical culture that is the foundation of American music.
She is based in New Orleans, where she has lived for five years and is currently recording her first album

Her travels inspired her to write music that goes from Afro South American Rhythms to Contemporary Jazz. Her music combines the different cultures and places she's been traveling for about 10 years now.

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