The Washboard Resonators

The Washboard Resonators hail from Leeds in England and can be described as sounding and looking like ‘a ragtime street band meets a Hollywood musical on a theatre stage somewhere in around 1932’. Their favorite performers include the jazz, ragtime, hokum, blues, comedy and vaudeville sounds of Louis Armstrong, Blind Boy Fuller, Fred Astaire, The Washboard Rhythm Kings, Robert Johnson, Gene Krupa, Max Miller, George Formby, Tampa Red and The Memphis Jug Band.

On stage you can expect a varied and entertaining show with upbeat songs; harmonies, tap dancing and an array of old instruments, including; washboard, resonator guitars, banjo, ukelele, snare drum, suitcase bass drum, spoons and our very own invention – the kazoosaphone.