A song set in Portland in 1892 during the Shanghai days when men would get drugged while drinking at bars and kid-napped to work the ships going to Shanghai for the opium trade. Joe Kelley was famous for Shanghaiing men in Portland. This is one woman's story about saving her man. 

Gone Gone Gone

Delilah

Looking down and waiting patiently in heaven for her man to quit running from the Pinkertons and join her in the afterlife.  

Pinkerton

Lady Luck is an Indie Gypsy Swing inspired song about being down on your luck asking Lady Luck to save us. 

Lady Luck

Paint And Pageantry is a studio accident about loving someone through change. 

Paint And Pageantry

Lost Souls is an electrifying song about the wayward 

Lost Soul

Paint & Pageantry

Rio Grande

Saints & Sinners

Canary in a Cave

Poplar Tree

Bon Bon Vivant is partnering with the New Orleans Jazz Museum’s record label, Gallatin Street Records, with a recorded live performance at the museum. Selections from the band’s album Paint & Pageantry were showcased; a cover of the classic “Shout Sister Shout,” famously sung by the Boswell Sisters, a gypsy jazz favorite “Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen,” and many original songs were featured.

A portion of the proceeds from the record go to the New Orleans Jazz Museum to support all of their wonderful programs. Available on iTunes and at our website.

The Jazz Axe Man

The Jazz Axe Man (introduction)

Shout Sister Shout

Dancing In The Darkness is a collection of songs celebrating life in all is glory and tragedy!

Dancing In The Darkness

This Year

Little Evil

The Bones

Wanting

Bon Bon Vivant

Casey Jones

Another Broken Heart

USOS

Ship Is Sinking

Entropy

An indie band from New Orleans, Bon Bon Vivant has exhilarated audiences nationwide with their signature blend of roots Americana, dark ballads, funk and uptempo indie dance rock. BBV pays homage to a traditional New Orleans sound while introducing a punk/americana edge into its original songwriting. The blood harmonies of the Cosio sisters add a hauntingly beautiful soundscape to this genre bending band. Cosio’s fierce lyrics and passionate vocal work have often been compared to Amy Winehouse, Melody Gardot and Florence and The Machine.

A Bon Vivant in French is someone who lives well, who loves to eat, drink and enjoy the finer things in life. Bon Bon Vivant embodies the revelry and celebration of this lifestyle and the city that they hail from. The band plays much of its music in a dark and sensual gypsy style with lyrics like “start living now while you’ve got living left,” the music shows the duality of enjoying the light because the darkness is always near!

Bon Bon Vivant

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