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Elizabeth Bougerol is the co-founder, voice, and creative force behind powerhouse early-jazz revival band The Hot Sardines, which has been called "potent and self-assured" by The New York Times and “simply phenomenal” by The Times of London. With her co-founder and pianist-bandleader Evan Palazzo, Elizabeth's reimagining of sounds from the likes of Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong and Django Reinhardt launched the Sardines into touring worldwide and recording a string of albums (starting with the Universal Classics/Decca debut The Hot Sardines) that have racked up more than 70 million streams across digital platforms.

While Elizabeth's influences are rooted in early-20th century jazz, her knack for making vintage sounds feel resolutely modern, her love of sharing the history you don't know behind some of jazz's best-loved artists, and a gift of audience connection that WBGO's Nate Chinen has called "the secret sauce" have landed her at the forefront of a movement of women redefining the role of the classic-jazz singer.

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The Hot Sardines: The Latest Rage

The “hot” band touring the country these days is appropriately named The Hot Sardines. This eight-member group out of New York City has six musicians, a French-born vocalist who plays the washboard and serves as M.C., and a tap dancer. They have dug up many of the old classic tunes that for too long have been relegated to the music memory bank and are presenting them in a hip, high-energy style that is distinctively their own.

Among their lauditory reviews, we’re told: “It’s Trad jazz with an edge . . . as if the cops had just burst into a speakeasy waving their billy clubs. They’ve captured the spirit as well as the letter of the music, handling tunes that go back to the 1920s as living, breathing music, rather than forgotten museum artifacts.”

This is how The Sardines describe themselves: “Take a blustery brass lineup, layer it over a rhythm section led by a stride-piano virtuoso in the Fats Waller vein, and tie the whole thing together with a one-of-the-boys frontwoman with a voice from another era, an

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Jazz and France is a coupling that instantaneously grabs my attention. Add a woman who has followed her passion, appreciates the moment and lives life to the fullest all the while staying grounded in this ever-changing thing called life, and I want to get to know her further.

Elizabeth Bougerol is not only the front woman of The Hot Sardines vintage jazz band that is making “the old sound new” again, but she is also the co-founder with the bandleader and man at the piano, Evan Palazzo (above with Elizabeth, bottom right). The band’s music has been described by The Times (London) as “simply phenomenal” and their music has reached the No. 1 slot on the iTunes Jazz chart in the U.S. and internationally. With songs in both English and Fr