Lester T. Raww’s Graveside Quartet

Lester T. Raww’s Graveside Quartet brings their macabre, noir-tinged sound to Haight Street’s vintage cocktail lounge and music institution, The Deluxe. Formed by members of Bay Area horrorbilly stalwarts The Pine Box Boys, the ensemble trades rustic banjos for a distinctive instrumentation of accordion, ukulele, trombone, trumpet, and musical saw. Often described as Tin Pan Alley charm steeped in Addams Family grim, the group plays what they dub “Dark Alley Jazz”—a sinister fusion of 1920s trad jazz, New Orleans funeral dirges, speakeasy swing, and vaudevillian murder ballads delivered with theatrical, deadpan delivery.