Vintage jazz performance and ukulele workshops with Miss Rose and Her Rhythm Percolators

Travel back in time to the earliest days of the Jazz Age with Miss Rose and Her Rhythm Percolators.

They’re playing one show only, at 8 p.m., at the Odd Fellows Hall on Saturday, March 13. Local singer and ukulele player Charly Robinson will open the show.

It’s a family-friendly, all-ages event. A portion of the proceeds from the show will benefit the Orcas Island Education Foundation.

The Seattle-based quartet faithfully re-creates the vintage jazz of the early 1920s to the mid ’30s – the era when this original American music provided a playful soundtrack for the flappers who danced the Charleston and sipped illicit booze in the glitzy underworld of the speakeasy.

Miss Rose and Her Rhythm Percolators play well-known popular tunes that have since become part of the great American songbook and dust off forgotten gems from the early jazz era. Audiences delight at the unabashed romance, the playful humor, and the irresistible swing rhythms. Some can’t help but dance or sing along.

To fully transport audiences, the band members dress in period clothing, share some of the music’s history, and run a slideshow of art and photos from the era during performances.

Singer Sunga Rose croons and strums a ukulele with the Percolators: Ericka Kendall (upright bass), Holly Michelle Eckert (piano/violin), and Carey Rayburn (trumpet/flugelhorn).

A selection of beer, wine, and nonalcoholic beverages will be available for purchase at the concert. Tickets are $10 per person, available in advance at Darvill’s Bookstore, Gordeaux’s, Orcas Elementary School, and at Eastsound Instruments. For more information, call 376-3148.

Also on Saturday, March 13, Rose will lead two ukulele workshops at the Odd Fellows Hall: “Beginning Ukulele (age 10 to Adult)” from 2 to 3:30 p.m., $30 and “Intermediate Ukulele: Let’s go to the bar!” from 3:30 to 5 p.m., $30. To pre-register for either workshop, contact Rose at contact@missroserhythm.com.