Celebration of New Orleans Mardi Gras with Dom Pipkin’s Ikos
“the best New Orleans band never to come from Louisiana”
Last Show: Tuesday 21 st February 2023
PizzaExpress Jazz Club (Soho)
Celebrate New Orleans Mardi Gras with Dom Pipkin’s Ikos - “the best New Orleans band never to come from Louisiana” - Rocking Magpie
A unique British band influenced by the funk and R'n'B of New Orleans. Blues in Britain magazine calls band leader and songwriter Dom Pipkin “one for the worlds greatest exponents of New Orleans piano”. Pipkin’s piano work has been recognised internationally and he makes regular appearances across Europe and America alongside some of the biggest names on the scene, sharing stages with the late Allen Toussaint and Dr John. The full band featuring some of the UKs finest talent mixes tough street rhythms with highly infectious song writing and “leaves the audience dancing and clapping for me” – Classic Rock Blues. Zigaboo Modeliste, of The Meters says “Dom brings the whole New Orleans thing to the UK. So good!” and Paul Jones on BBC Radio 2’s Blues Show declaimed that the Ikos are “lighting up the British blues and RnB world”. The Ikos promise a night of Mardi Gras classics. Infectious and life-affirming rhythms of New Orleans, the music of Dr John, Lee Dorsey, Fats Domino and more, all in a partylike atmosphere alongside the bands gritty and funky original grooves.