GYPSY WRANGLERS

Swinging, bluesing and jazzing, the Gypsy Wranglers create a musical cattle drive from Paris, Texas, to Paris, France. 

Like Camembert cheese on a sourdough biscuit, their music is a special blend of New Orleans Jazz, Western Swing, Ragtime, Benny Goodman, Django and French Musette. A Gypsy Wranglers performance will take you to a New York nightclub of 1938, a Paris sidewalk cafe and a Texas roadhouse, all within a half hour.

The music, drawing from the traditions of such jazz greats as Louis Armstrong, Django Reinhardt, Bob Wills and Benny Goodman, is performed on fiddle, guitar, accordion, trombone, bass and drums, with appearances by blues harp, chromatic harmonica and mandolin. 

The Gypsy Wranglers have entertained audiences at festivals, concerts, weddings, fairs, schools, radio and cruises throughout New England, as well as Quebec, Alberta and British Columbia. 

Readers of the Valley Advocate, the arts weekly of the Connecticut River Valley, selected the Gypsy Wranglers as their favorite swing band in the annual GRAND BAND SLAM for six years in a row and the Advocate has retired their number from competition, hoisting their jersey's to the rafters.

Their three recordings, Step It Up & Go,  St. Tropez Cowboy and Ain't Nobody Here But Us, have received acclaim in local and national music reviews.

In the tradition of the jazz bands of New Orleans, the Gypsy Wranglers perform regular free public concerts, appearing most Sunday mornings from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Black Sheep Deli in Amherst, Massachusetts.

The Gypsy Wranglers are:
Doug Tanner: violin, chromatic harmonica, vocals
Terry “T-Bone” Nagel: trombone, mandolin, vocals
Craig Hollingsworth: accordion, vocals
Terry Reed: rhythm guitar, blues harp, vocals
Lynn Lovell: bass, background vocals, chicken imitations
Rico Spence: drums, background vocals