Hotel Gypsies are a husband-and-wife duo from Manhattan, KS.
Chantelle is a classically-trained soprano who plays rhythm guitar, with the occasional fling on mandolin.
Justin's tenor voice blends beautifully in harmony, and he plays an assortment of instruments including banjo, ukulele, viola, and accordion.
Together they craft exquisite ballads celebrating love, life on the prairie, and murder.
Contact hotelgypsies@gmail.com to book a performance!
Influences:
Chantelle: Jill Tracy, Sarah Slean, Judy Garland, Fistful of Mercy, Jennifer Knapp, Christine Schafer, Nicole Byblow, Mumford & Sons, Gustav Mahler, Kurt Weill, early jazz and blues, French pop and chanson, 20th century art songs, Appalachian folk, ragtime, hymns and spirituals
(film) Arsenic and Old Lace, Alfred Hitchcock, Louise Brooks, Marlene Dietrich
(literature) A. A. Milne, The Little White Horse, Sherlock Holmes, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dashiell Hammett, Jack Kerouac
(life) the circus, vaudeville, Weimar Berlin, the Jazz Age, the Great Depression, the French Revolution
Justin: They Might Be Giants, Mike West, Charlie Parr, Calamity Cubes, Fast Food Junkies, Black-Hearted Step-Fathers, Wildcat Creek & Manhappenin's Upper West Side, Dirty Bourbon River Show, Richard O'Brien, Handsy Step-Grandfathers, Tool, G-Dub & Slick Willie, the Homestead Family, Herb Daley, the bayou, 'Merica.
Both: Doctor Who, road trips, Kansas, grave-robbing, cats, baking cookies, guitar-fetching, flowers, whiskey, beards, Mardis Gras