The Bryce Edwards Frivolity Tri-OH! at Jazz On Main

“Home Is Where Bryce Edwards Is … we got on our feet and applauded, again. For 80 minutes Bryce Edwards had made time stand still and brought us back home, if only in our dreams.” -Will Friedwald, The New York Sun

Crooning troubadour and nouveau vaudevillian, Bryce Edwards, is proud to bring his original blend of hot traditional jazz and early 20th century popular music to Jazz on Main in his critically acclaimed show, The Bryce Edwards Frivolity Tri-OH! The Frivolity Hour is a transportive deep dive into the music of the 1920s and early 30s that delivers all the sweet, hot, and wonderfully nonsensical sounds of Tin Pan Alley you never knew you always wanted to hear. Bryce is a wholly unique vocalist that takes equal cues from the early crooners and soft singers of the period and the bombastic voices of the earlier acoustic phonograph era, as well as a multi-instrumentalist who wrangles jazzy sounds out of the banjo, ukulele, tenor guitar, and mandolin, as well as a plethora of novelty instruments and effects. He leads an all-star band of traditional jazz specialists, featuring Grammy award winner Conal Fowkes on piano and Scott Ricketts on cornet. Bryce fully embodies the performers of a bygone era (which includes Cliff Edwards, Rudy Vallée, Jack Teagarden, Bing Crosby, and even Jimmie Rodgers) but always keeps one foot in the present, straddling two ends of the past century as equal parts showman and historian. According to noted writer James Gavin, “Edwards replicates the vocal and sartorial style, facial expressions, body language, and humor of 1920s male singers, notably Ted Lewis, to such an astonishing degree that I sat there wondering how this could ever have happened.” Come see why the BroadwayWorld team named The Bryce Edwards Frivolity Hour one of the best solo cabaret shows of 2024, alongside entertainment royalty such as Patti LuPone, Bernadette Peters, and Marilyn Maye.