Skin & Bone are promoting the release of their 15-track album Last Bus to Brockville — a quirky collection of Dodd and Moroney originals with a few Western swing covers to keep them grounded.
Occupying a musical niche they call "cowboy lounge" music, Skin & Bone members are not new to the road, most of them having toured together in other line-ups, both here and overseas.
Newcomer, clarinettist Emily Sterk (of the Dunedin Symphony Orchestra) finds herself in this band with her former Logan Park school teacher, such is the age range diversity of the unit.
Fiddle and mandolin player Anna Bowen said she and fellow band members Steve Hudson (drums), Mike Moroney (guitar), John Dodd (bass), and Sterk (clarinet) had become connected to each other over many years.
"Mike and John have been playing together for three decades," she said.
Since the formation of Skin & Bone in 2021, they have been darlings of the swing dance scene in Dunedin, attracting keen Lindy hoppers to their gigs.
All five are vocalists and tight harmonies and complex arrangements are a big feature of their sound.
Skin & Bone will perform in Dunedin on Sunday, July 21, at Dunedin Folk Club, Opoho Bowling Club, 80 Lovelock Ave.
