Ever since they first formed some 25 years ago, the Cherry Poppin’ Daddies made it their mission to veer from genre to genre across the musical map, choosing to follow their own muse regardless of ...

In the world of the Cherry Poppin’ Daddies, jazz and swing never went out of style, Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley never picked up an instrument and rock ’n’ roll is still dominated by upright basses ...

It’s easier to market a recording artist that can be pigeonholed rather than an act that’s eclectic. “That’s why we had so much trouble,” Fishbone bassist Norwood Fisher once said. “Our label ...

Should the LaSells Stewart Center carom moon-ward this weekend, deactivate PulsePoint and reholster your phone: It’s just the Cherry Poppin’ Daddies reshaping the joint into the swankiest speak in ...

I’m at war with myself over last night’s Cherry Poppin’ Daddies show. While the fanboy part of me (who’s followed the band since picking up Kids on the Street in 1997) was jazzed at seeing one of my ...

The sounds of jazz and swing will fill The Tremont House, A Wyndham Grand Hotel, during its 30th Annual Mardi Gras Ball & Parade Viewing Party on March 1. The Tremont House invites guests and ...

Thanks for running Michael Little’s cover story on one of D.C.’s truly great guitarists, Punky Meadows (“Angel on His Shoulder,” 5/31). Over the years, I have heard literally hundreds of bands live, ...

A decade ago, the neo-swing movement was in, er, full swing. That damned commercial for The Gap, featuring models foxtrotting and Lindy-hopping to Louis Prima, was cluttering our TV screens, and the ...

Eclecticism has been the mission of the Cherry Poppin’ Daddies from the beginning. The band came together in the gray light of the late 80’s pre-grunge dawn, when singer/principle songwriter Steve ...

To answer your first question, yes -- the Cherry Poppin' Daddies are still around. Additionally, they've just released a new album, and no, it's NOT swing. No, they haven't "abandoned their roots"; ...

Veteran American ska fans like myself have a hard time accepting that it isn't 1994 anymore. The days of that freewheeling, musically diverse indie subculture spearheaded by such titans as the ...