Johnny Sketch & The Dirty Notes will celebrate their 15th anniversary with a very special night of music at Tipitina’s on Saturday, October 22.

Johnny Sketch & The Dirty Notes on the cover of OffBeat, October 2004.

The extravaganza will be something of career retrospective for the group, which first formed in 2001. As such, the band will be joined by past members of The Dirty Notes and other guests with ties to their history, including Josh Paxton (keys), Harry Hardin (violin), Nick Volz (trumpet), Brad Walker (sax), Tommy Occhiuto (sax), Greg Hicks (trombone), Aurora Nealand (sax)
and Michael Jenner (sax).

Fans will also be able to hear the band dust off old songs that haven’t been played in years, and early arrivers will be treated to an opening set from tenor sax virtuoso Ron Holloway.

“15 years worth of craziness, musical and otherwise, is going to be represented on stage at Tipitina’s,” says drummer Andre Bohren. “Come be part of the spectacle.”

Tickets for the show are currently on sale. OffBeat also giving away a pair of passes to the show as part of an online contest. Doors open at 9pm and the music is set to begin at 10pm.