Hot Damn Scandal / James Rossi at Trout Lake Hall
July 10 @ 6:00 pm
Friday, July 10th, 2026
$15 Advance // $15 Day Of Show
6pm Doors / 7pm Show
All Ages
HOT DAMN SCANDAL
Hot Damn Scandal finds its songs under park benches and in forgotten alleyways, on the corner of Tom Waits and Gershwin. The resulting outlaw ballads, dirty jazz, circus freakouts, shanty-rags, string band funk, lonesome heart-breakers, and whiskey bottle love songs blend together in what may be best described as ‘Cabaret Americana’: theatrical, orchestral, lyrical, and endlessly danceable.
The group began as a nebula of traveling musicians formed around the songs of founder Pete Irving over 15 years ago. Firmly rooted in Bellingham, WA since 2016, they have become a staple in the ever evolving NW music scene.
With influences ranging from Roma Swing to Motown, from Klezmer too Country, they’ll be in your ears and on your mind for good after you’ve seen them once.
JAMES ROSSI
Instantly recognizable by his elastic bass vocals, harmonic sensibility and poetic bent, James Rossi is both a careful crafter of originals songs and a renovator of unsung classics from the early 20th-century.
