Seattle's premier junkyard cabaret act The Bad Things (www.thebadthings.com) return to the Rabbit Box for a night of mournful sea shanties, drunken waltzes and degenerate folk music. This will be another trip down memory lane as The Bad Things revisit their catalog that spans over 20 years. In fact, their formative months were spent on the sidewalks of the Pike Place Market, just steps from the Rabbit Box (formerly Can Can, formerly Patti Summers Cabaret) and they played their first shows on this very stage. Some wild nights for sure. Don't fear however, it won't all be about nostalgia. The band has been busy writing new material so expect to hear some new favorites scattered amongst the dusty old relics.

Opening the evening is Tacoma's Rusty Cleavers (www.therustycleavers.com). Four weirdos with a shared love of bluegrass, punk, jazz, funk, and whatever Tom Waits is. When these four odd-balls get together, their voices combine for sometimes gruff, sometimes sweet harmonies on songs about lust misuse, trust issues, and dying young. Their instruments create a twangy cacophonous orchestra of metal and wood that has been bringing audiences to a compassionate frenzy at hundreds of performances across the Pacific Northwest for the past decade. This is not your backwards grandpa’s or creepy uncle’s redneck bluegrass. This is queer-loving, Black Lives Matter proclaiming, progressive pickin’ from the heart of Tacoma.

The Bad Things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BB7wPnqjBE.

The Rusty Cleavers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sizO51_YlvA

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The Bad Things with The Rusty Cleavers