PUTNEY — Next Stage Arts Project and Twilight Music present country, swing, honky-tonk, and old-time music quintet The Sweetback Sisters at Next Stage on Thursday, March 10 at 7:30 p.m.
The Sweetback Sisters forge their own sound by delivering arrangements that combine the soul of classic '40s, '50s and '60s-era country music with an undeniably contemporary edge.
Emily Miller (vocals, fiddle), Zara Bode (vocals, guitar), Stefan Amidon (drums), Rob Hecht (fiddle) and Jason Loughlin (electric guitar) take their inspiration from the Davis Sisters and Louvin Brothers, as well as the spirited honky-tonk energy of Wanda Jackson and Loretta Lynn.
Bode and Miller harmonize family style, and the band adds telecaster guitar and twin fiddling.
Bode and Miller started singing together in the Montpelier-based choir Northern Harmony. While performing an eclectic repertoire of shape-note hymns and eastern European harmonies, the two discovered a mutual love of good old American country music. They moved to Brooklyn, N.Y., reeled in an all-star cast of back-up musicians, and started playing in venues up and down the eastern United States.