The Band Beautiful

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The Ingenues are an 18-piece, all-women band. Dressed in matching frilly white dresses with flowers sewn on, they perform. They start with an up-tempo piece featuring three brief solos. Then Frances, an accordion player, fronts the orchestra and leads them through a piece that features eight more accordions. A harp solo is followed by a cello duet. Then, more than a dozen banjos take over: after a few licks, they break into a spirited vocal of "Shakin' the Blues Away". Out come the woodwinds to join the brass and banjos in a version of "Tiger Rag". The orchestration includes bass, bassoon, and kazoo. The women stand at the end.