The Loose Moose String Band & The Speakeasy Bootleg Band: A Double Bill Concert
Tuesday, 21 April 2026 Time: 7.30pm
Angel Field Festival 2026 commemorates 250 year's of American Independence with an American-themed double bill concert featuring two esteemed Liverpool bands, The Loose Moose String Band and The Speakeasy Bootleg Band.
The Loose Moose String Band are veterans of the Liverpool music scene. Their enormous repertoire includes familiar country hits, obscure folk, bluegrass & cajun nuggets, rockabilly, honky tonk, Western swing and a huge list of 80s & 90s pop bangers reimagined as acoustic folk classics.
Far too many weekends have passed since the band's inception for any of them to be able to accurately remember how long they have been playing together for, but evidence suggests they started over 15 years ago. Audiences across the country have loved their dynamic playing and the warm atmosphere they bring to gigs. You can tell they love playing together - and you'll love hearing them too.
The Speakeasy Bootleg Band (SBB) are purveyors of "the finest quality bootleg music since records began.... distilled & bottled in New York and Chicago", but consumed wherever finer things are appreciated. SBB play a heady mix of jazz, jive and Harlem swing, the vintage sounds of the Cotton Club and Birdland, the illegal drinking haunts of prohibition Chicago and countless rent parties, driving bass, explosive drums and sophisticated witty vocals.
This is the music of Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Louis Jordan, Cab Calloway, Fats Waller, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, and Art Blakey, the music which drove Tin Pan Alley and created the Great American Songbook.