The Blue Jackets

photography by steve kashishian / plaine studios

YLC Wednesday at the Square presents Friday Night at Republic. A fundraiser for the community projects of the Young Leadership Council featuring The Blue Jackets with Sticky Wig. A limited number of $25 VIP tickets are available. VIP access includes private balcony, private cash bar and complimentary food.

The Blue Jackets
PT Walkley of the New York City local favorites Track Rabbit and long time Ed Burns collaborator, scoring several of his recent films (LOOKING FOR KITTY, and the recently completed PURPLE VIOLETS) had just finished composing the score for Burns new film THE GROOMSMEN when he gave Burns a disc of demos he was working on. The new songs had a more stripped down, straight-up, rock n roll sound and immediately stuck a chord with Burns; he especially connected to strong story telling lyrics.

Enamored by PTs new direction, Burns asked him to take a shot at the end title song for THE GROOMSMEN. The song Four Cheers was the result of that request and Walkleys new band, THE BLUE JACKETS were born.

Sticky Wig
Sticky Wig was formed in early 2007 with the two-fold desire to reconnect with each individual member’s most pure NOLA roots and to add some fresh original funky sideways tunage to the Post K New Orleans scene.

Bassist, Singer and Songwriter Dale Dolese returned home to New Orleans, after 10 years in Colorado, excited to hit the NOLA scene again. An internet ad led Guitarist Stan Gelpi and his lifelong friend, Keyboardist Glenn Grass to Dolese and the Sticky wheels began turning and churning. Glenn heard about a madman who had moved from New Orleans to Mississippi, this man, Drummer Beau Blalock, was yearning to break back into New Orleans scene again. One phone call and Beau was on the road heading to Glenn's temporary Mid-City home for the first explosion of Stickyness. In early 2008 Saxophonist and electronic toy manipulator Travis Blotsky joined the boys for a Wednesday night jam on Tulane Avenue and the Sticky icing had arrived.

This newfound brotherhood immediately seized upon the New Orleans groove and added heaping doses of funk and rock. Playing publicly for less than a year, StickyWig has made the Times Picayune's "Hot Picks" twice already by bringing smiles to audiences all over the Gulf South with their super-tight rhythm section, synchopated guitar, wailin' sax and screamin' organ

PLAYIN’ Funk Infused Rock-n-Roll with a healthy dose of debauchery and depravation. This intensely tight band doesn’t take itself too seriously but rest assured their infectious grooves will have even the most diehard wallflower shaking that JUNK IN THE TRUNK on the dancefloor. StickyWig is true New Orleans Bootie-Shakin' music, so leave your inhibitions at the door and put you head in the Wig.