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DELFEAYO MARSALIS, director of Music Doing Good, and his band will perform “Speakeasy — Songs from the Prohibition” at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Boothbay Opera House, 86 Townsend Ave., Boothbay. “Prohibition was supposed to usher in an era of sobriety and restraint. Instead, America’s noble experiment was submerged by the madcap wave of the Roaring 20s, when inventive recording ar tists on their way to fame unleashed spirited sounds that set the tone for the country,” Marsalis and his band “of speakeasy all-stars for a night of bawdy musical decadence inspired by the prohibition era.” Tickets cost $20. Proceeds benefit the opera house. Tickets can be purchased at www.boothbayoperahouse.com or by calling 633-5159.
DELFEAYO MARSALIS, director of Music Doing Good, and his band will perform “Speakeasy — Songs from the Prohibition” at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Boothbay Opera House, 86 Townsend Ave., Boothbay. “Prohibition was supposed to usher in an era of sobriety and restraint. Instead, America’s noble experiment was submerged by the madcap wave of the Roaring 20s, when inventive recording ar tists on their way to fame unleashed spirited sounds that set the tone for the country,” Marsalis and his band “of speakeasy all-stars for a night of bawdy musical decadence inspired by the prohibition era.” Tickets cost $20. Proceeds benefit the opera house. Tickets can be purchased at www.boothbayoperahouse.com or by calling 633-5159.

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