Sydney, Australia
Biography
JUKE BARITONE AND THE SWAMP DOGS underscore life with their bent mix of music, theatre and cabaret – shaken and stirred into a dark cocktail of trapeze punk, gypsy jazz and pirate blues mayhem.
Juke has been described as “chaotic, maniacal and absolutely, comprehensively in your face”, and The Swamp Dogs’ music has been compared to the dirty sounds of a Louisiana gravel road. Versatility and adaptability has been the key to the band’s home grown success, and they maintain a foot in the doors of the rock, punk, gypsy, jazz, blues and folk scenes.
Festival favourites in home country Australia, they have played in The Spiegeltent at Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide Festivals along with The Sydney Opera House, and have run a residency of garage cabaret at the most respected jazz and blues club in Sydney, The Vanguard. A 2009 tour of the UK and Europe brought the band to the international festival stage impressing punters from Edinburgh to Slovakia and everywhere in between. The Woodford Folk Festival 09/10 added live music for the circus to Juke's ever growing list of accomplishments and saw the band bring in the New Year there on a high.