The Acadia Barn Cats – In Concert

The Acadia Barn Cats are a maddeningly eclectic String-Swing-Vocal-Jazz quintet. They may look like a bluegrass band but when they sail smoothly into classic standards like “Begin the Beguine” or “Fascinating Rhythm”, you might say “What in tarnation?” Born in a barn in Brooksville, the Cats are classical violinists Chris Nemeth and Linda Soukup, vocalist and dobroist (what’s that?) Bob Hipkens, guitar maestro Phil Kell, and Bassist Tom Karnofsky. They play and sing a book full of swing-jazz and cabaret standards but marble their sets with originals as well as Folk, Western Swing, and Latin classics.