Two chances to see Casey MacGill

If swing music is your thing, then make plans for one or more shows featuring Casey MacGill. Critics say, “Casey MacGill performs music that swings. Nat ‘King’ Cole Trio meets the Mills Brothers. Fats Waller meets Fats Domino. Slim Galliard meets Fred Astaire. It is American music of many decades and no decade in particular, all happening at the same time, woven into a seamless, beautiful whole.” It’s an all-ages show Friday, Nov. 18 at 7 p.m. at the house concert venue at 401 Montello in Hood River. Then, on Saturday, Nov. 19 at 7:30 p.m., it’s an adults-only show the Moth Lounge featuring special guests Casey MacGill and Robert Armstrong (Cheap Suit Serenaders) — two heavyweights of the vintage music world — with Hokum Pokum (Ben Bonham and Madame Betz Oslund with Ronnie Ontiveros on bass and Dennis Williams on clarinet, both of the Hapa Hillbillies). Madame Betz is a powerful singer with a marvelously theatrical delivery, and she and Mr Bonham delve deeply into the rich tradition of naughty, rude and often very silly female/male duets.