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It's HOT JAZZ!! It's DIXIELAND!! It's SWING!! It's RAGTIME!! AND THE BLUES!! For well over a decade this Victoria jazz band has stolen show after show on the "trad" jazz circuit all over North America. They have reverted to being a sextet when gigging at home with the addition of a former bandmate, Doug Rhodes on reeds and vocals and replacing Jim Armstrong with Mike Broadley on trumpet. Home is where they want to be for the foreseeable future! Featuring tight vocal arrangements on swing and New Orleans classics from the 20's to the 40's, CanUS can regularly be heard at Hermann's on two Sundays per month from 4:00-7:00 pm. Oh - and their 8 CD's are very popular, too! In the "Mississippi Rag' , Oct. 2001, reviewer Paige Van Vorst states"CanUS is a one-of-a-kind group. They perhaps ... more...