The Wiyos with My Sweet Patootie
Wiyos of Oz Tour! In the spring of 2010, The Wiyos collaborated with Wichita State University's dance department to create an original theatrical production of dance and music entitled, ‘The Wiyos of Oz‘. This very successful run of seven shows inspired the contemporary vaudevillean band to compose their own original song cycle based on the 1939 film, The Wizard of Oz. The music and themes meld contemporary concepts with a wild interpretation of the original storyline. The show is funny, intense, and musically spectacular.
Openers will be My Sweet Patootie, the new swinging folk project by former Tanglefoot members Terry Young (guitar & vocals) and Sandra Swannell (fiddle & vocals).
Tickets are on sale now from the Cedar Ticketline (612-338-2674 ext 2), from a hard-working Cedar volunteer in the front lobby during shows, from Cedar outlets (Electric Fetus, Irish on Grand, Homestead Pickin' Parlor, and Depth of Field), and online at Ticketweb.
All Cedar shows are all ages. Students with ID may gain discounted admission for tickets purchased at the door.
Formed in New York City during the summer of 2002, The Wiyos took their name from the toughest gang to prowl the streets of old New York (The Why’os, circa 1890). They have spent eight years touring extensively in the USA, Canada, France, The Netherlands and...
My Sweet Patootie is more fun than drinking martinis at a tractor pull! They are the “li’l big band” that’s busy ripping up the pea-patch with their very own strain of hayseed jazz. Armed with fiddle, finger-style guitar and two voices, My Sweet Patootie is...
Major Funders
This activity is made possible in part by a grant provided by the Minnesota State Arts Board, through an appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature from the Minnesota arts and cultural heritage fund with money from the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008
