Raise Your Hem
Overview
- 4 piece band
- All-female lineup
- Eclectic mix of material
- Fresh takes on works by musical storytellers from Kurt Weill to Tom Waits as well as self-penned material
- Instruments include double Bass and Accordion
Price Range
Prices range from £450 to £1500
About
Raise your hem are a quirky Edinburgh-based group who perform fresh takes on works by musical storytellers such as Kurt Weill and the copper-bottomed genius that is Tom Waits as well as self-penned material. The group's musical chemistry draws in audiences to listen, contemplate, laugh and dance their socks off all in one evening. Double bass, accordion, an array of percussive objects, an alluring voice and songs of love, loss and mischief.
Raise Your Hem take you from the 1920s cabaret genre as represented in Weill and Brecht's Threepenny Opera to more contemporary material with a similar sentiment. Their eclectic repertoire features classics by Jacques Brel and Tom Lehrer and picks up on Yiddish theater. Both familiar and less known songs by Tom Waits and OiVaVoi are re-invented with added harmony singing and instrumental interludes.
From intimate and macabre to funny, Raise Your Hem shine by not taking themselves too seriously, thus creating an atmosphere of pure enjoyment and often silliness. Original material ranges from atmospheric to circus style and polka, with elements of audience participation and plenty of opportunity to boogie!
Where are they based?
The band are based in Edinburgh but regularly play across Scotland and the rest of the UK
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Sample Set List
Jockey full of Bourbon - Tom Waits
Tango Till They’re sore - Tom Waits
Perfect kind of day - Original
Tango Ballad - Kurt Weil & Burtolt Brecht
St James Infirmary - Traditional
Bei Mir Bist du Schoen - Jacob Jacobs, Sholom Secunda, Sammy Cahn and Saul Chaplin
Telephone call from Istanbul - Tom Waits
Red Right Hand - Nick Cave
Yuri - Oi Va Voi
Chocolate Jesus - Tom Waits
Aint necessarily so - George Gershwin
What lights this fire - Original
I've seen that face before : Libertango - words by N. Delon, B. Reynolds, D. Wilkey ; music by Astor Piazzolla
Amsterdam - Jacques Brel
Innocent when you dream - Tom Waits
The Saga of Jenny - Gershwin & Weill
Sympathique - Pink Martini
Temptation - Tom Waits
Cemetry Polka - Tom Waits
Hold your hand - Tom Lehrer
Way down in the hole - Tom Waits
Masochism tango - Tom Lehrer
Joseph - Andrews Sisters
In the morning I’ll be gone - - Tom Waits
You won’t survive - Gloria Gaynor and Jed Milroy
Bled - Amestoy Trio
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