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Belleville Outfit

Based out of Louisiana’s finest music and arts city, but with hometowns littered across the United States, the Belleville Outfit serves up a truly unique mix of gypsy swing, big band jazz, and roots Americana/Bluegrass. Both innovative in their combining of genres, and true to their musical roots, the Belleville Outfit, though young, has already solidified itself as a tour-de-force in the world of acoustic music.

Band members Rob Teter, Marshall Hood and Jeff Brown toured extensively with a group based out of South Carolina called the DesChamps Band, an all acoustic swing/bluegrass group that has shared stages with such prestigious acts as The Waybacks, Junior Brown, the Del McCoury Band, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, the Duhks, and Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder, as well as released two full length records.

Now, as the Belleville Outfit, with the additional talents of Phoebe Hunt on violin, Connor Forsyth on piano, and Jonathan Konya on the drums, the group is poised to introduce their inventive sound into the ears of anyone and everyone who will listen.

"One of the striking things about the current Americana music trend is that it is the exploration of some really old styles undertaken by some really young musicians. Of all the bands making their MerleFest debuts last April, the one that came away with the unofficial "buzz maker" award was the young sextet the Belleville Outfit. Performing shows at the Americana Stage and the Hillside Stage, the Belleville Outfit wowed MerleFest fans with high-energy sets of New Orleans-style barrelhouse piano blues, big band jazz and gypsy swing, all tempered with a modern Americana sensibility and sense of humor."  - Jeff Eason, Mountain Times

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