Sunny Side

Sunny Side provides a full New Orleans style jazz band experience with 3 part harmonies, a solid rhythm section, and an energetic vocalist and dancer. The music is heavily influenced by New Orleans Jazz including Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, Fats Waller, Nat King Cole and many other classic artists. This music is great for swing dancing, singing, or to just listen to. Expect to become a part of the experience as Sunny Side engages with the energy and sound of what makes New Orleans such a special city.

For special events Sunny Side can provide a brass band for New Orleans traditional second lines. They usually perform as a 6-piece brass band and a 7-piece jazz band.

Sunny Side is a jazz band based out of New Orleans, Louisiana. They are heavily influenced by the music of Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Nat King Cole, Fats Waller, and many other early jazz legends. The band name ‘Sunny Side’ was influenced by the 1930 Fats Waller/Jimmy McHugh jazz standard ‘On the Sunny Side of the Street’. The band was created in 2019, and is composed of musicians that have played together in various jazz projects around New Orleans since 2017.

Sunny Side provides a full New Orleans style jazz band experience with 3 part harmonies, a solid rhythm section, and an energetic vocalist and dancer. Expect to become a part of the experience as Sunny Side engages with the energy and sound of what makes New Orleans such a special city. Be prepared to dance and sing.

During the 2020/2021 quarantine, Sunny Side provided a ‘Jazz in Coliseum Square Park’ series in the Lower Garden District of New Orleans hosting a variety of live music including themselves. Many locals expressed much gratitude for the music during the challenging time.

In 2023 Sunny Side is planning their third national tour stopping in cities and towns between New Orleans, New York, and Michigan while debuting their brand new album “The Felicity Sessions”.

Sunny Side has also been playing regularly for private events and weddings since January of 2020. In 2021 and 2023 Sunny Side won a “Best of Weddings” award going to the top 5% of wedding bands on The Knot.

Sunny Side can provide everything needed to perform a concert in any location. This includes a full backline (Drums, Upright Bass, Guitar), instruments (Trombone, Trumpet, Sax), full PA sound system with mixer, cables, mics, lighting, and even a battery power supply to provide a full 7-piece jazz concert in any location. Their standard PA setup usually consists of two 12" Yamaha mains, one or two 8" QSC monitors, a 20 channel Zoom Mixer, 3 horn mics, 2 vocal mics, 1 bass mic, 1 guitar mic, 2 overhead drum mics, and a kick mic. They have 2 programmable LED colored lights and 3 incandescent stage lights for night time performances.

Sunny Side is flexible to work with any venue to provide a quality concert experience.