EVERY TONGUE HAS A TALE TO TELL: A SWAMP OPERA

Every tongue has a tale to tell and I say we've got more than our share. 

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We took our name from a Dylan Thomas poem and, in the winter of 2001, set out to create our own brand of roots music - dubbed "American Swamp". We tap everything from Roots Rock and Roll, Blues and Motown to Americana, Cajun and Gospel. Once forced to describe the Bells sound in a single sentence, D. Miner retorted; "Imagine if the Stones came from Louisiana...they might sound like us". 

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We're known for two distinctly different types of show. The first is our Electrified Roots Rock 'n Roll Show for which we plug-in and are joined by our gospel singers and, on occasion, special guest artists. Our brand of roots music has proven to be a great fit with Blues, Rock, Americana and Country acts. Our "American Swamp Music" goes well with them all. 

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Our second show is an all acoustic "Swamp Opera" entitled; That Great and Dreadful Day...Tall Tales from the American Swamp. A play of the musical theatre variety, it employs the classic combination of storyteller and song with a cast of seven in period costume staged on a sharecropper's cabin set. Tales are told in story and song that take the audience on a journey through the Depression Era, the War Years and into the 1960s. Sold-out performances and standing ovations continue to propel this production.