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Bob Leary
Guitarist/banjoist Bob Leary hails from Massachusetts and currently is based in Southwest Florida. He is frequently featured at trad jazz, swing and Dixieland festivals and parties in the US and abroad. He was a Banjo King on Main Street at Disney World; the band leader and performer at Rosie O'Grady's in Orlando, FL; and was a featured act and band leader on the Mississippi Queen and the American Queen steamboats on the Mississippi river. For the past 8 years, Bob has been a featured All-Star for the JazzFest at Sea, and the Jazzdagen, cruises. He has played jazz festivals in Tahiti, Germany, Holland, France, Britain, Canada, and the Caesarea Jazz Festival in Israel
An evening of artful exuberance
In the right hands, Dixieland jazz is more of a feeling than a specific repertoire. It’s not what you play, so much as how you play it. Bob Leary’s sextet closed out the Charlotte County Jazz Society’s 2016-17 concert season exploring a wide array of vintage material that had toes a-tapping. The band mined quite a ...