Founded in 2014 in Durham, North Carolina, Huzzah is a seven-piece early hot jazz ensemble that treats the 1920s and ’30s in the present tense. With resonator and grand bouche guitars, upright bass, trombone, clarinet and violin, flute, saxophone, and saw, ukulele and vocals, the band delivers a full acoustic sound built on tight ensemble work, elastic rhythm, and unapologetic improvisation.

Our repertoire wanders fearlessly through hot jazz, swing, Tin Pan Alley, blues, jug band, and western swing — music designed to gather people in a room and make something happen. Some evenings feel like a dance hall. Some feel like a speakeasy that never quite closed. Most nights, it’s both.

Huzzah has appeared at regional festivals, cultural institutions, dance series, and curated ticketed events throughout the Triangle and beyond. We present dynamic live performances for festival stages, cultural programming, ticketed events, and select house-concert series — equally at home in a theater, a ballroom, or a big-ass living room with the furniture pushed back.

We’d love to play your festival, party, dance, funeral, yacht christening — or any other gathering that could use a little swing. Huzzah!

The Players

Lord Toph Wells  - Shiny Guitar

Blaise Kielar - Violin & Clarinet

Steve Nodata - Sax & Flute & Saw
Rody Josué Huertas - Trombonery

Rev. Dr. Hugh Arther Crumley III - Large Mouth Guitar, Hawaiian Lap Steel

FJ Ventre - Bass

Ms. Anastasia Maddox - Ukulele & Vocals