Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers

Since 1989, before swing became a national craze, jazz vocal stylist Lavay Smith and her band (led by co-founder and keyboardist Chris Siebert) have been making music as sharp and irresistible as her period costumes that recall the pinup girls of the Forties. Two decades later they are still the Bay Area's hottest swing attraction, steeped in not just the songs but the feel that makes them the real deal. Big, bluesy-voiced Smith has deservedly raked in national attention from network television to NPR, and Johnny Otis proclaims that "she and her band are a breath of fresh air!" Multiple award winners, Smith and her Skillet Lickers present not only the best-dressed but also one of the most exciting shows of East Coast Swing and Lindy Hop dance music, as well as sultry torch songs.