The Dixie Diehards Dixieland Band was formed in August, 2006 by a group of traditional jazz and Dixieland music enthusiasts whose members include a medical doctor, a retired college professor, businessmen and an investigative news reporter.
The Diehards title derives from members’ long-running devotion to traditional jazz music in the style of early 20^th century exemplified by such New Orleans bands as the Original Dixieland Jass Band and Louis Armstrong’s All-Stars as well as Chicago area musicians like Muggsy Spanier and Jimmy McPartland.

The term “Dixieland” refers to a form of small group jazz which typically includes a trumpet, a clarinet and a trombone and often a tuba combined with a rhythm section that may include a banjo, percussion or bass player as well as a piano. In most arrangements, the trumpet plays the melody while other elements freely improvise around it or paraphrase the melody in creative solos. 

The Dixie Diehards have won an enthusiastic reception across southern New England, not only for their old school jazz style, but for bringing an irrepressible sense of fun and frolic to their shows. That attitude almost always includes audience sing-a-longs, spontaneous dance outbursts (remember the Charleston and the Black Bottom?) and a spirit of “wonderful  nonsense” inspired by the early 20^th Century which gave them their music. 

Playing melodies that vary from rollicking numbers like “Hello Dolly,” “Doctor Jazz” and “Bill Bailey” to soulful renditions of “Basin Street Blues” and “Georgia On My Mind,” The Dixie Diehards are a throwback to the good times from an indelible era in American history.