Shim Sham @ The Kitchen

Roxanne 'Butterfly' eyes wide open and spellbinding feet

tip tap click clack she's stampin' and hoofin'

sounding the origins of the broadway boogie beat

coded history in staccato rhythms

telling motion and emotion

keeping alive the story of the street

each has their own hard won step up to the stage

high speedin' slow slidin' scrapin' sweepin' and drawin'

rippin' heart and soul

writing in sound

a foot flying archive

shoe shine boy roots

a living oracle to pass on down

a youthful future to carry

generations unite in the shim sham shimmy

the foot stomping congregation

blown away by the revelation

Jazz sews the threads

of a true multi-culture

the transaction is love

the story is told

Shim Sham at The Kitchen 29th January