RAG DOLL

The Band

When Rag Doll was founded in 2012, singer Käthe von T. and pianist Amy Protscher concurred: it's Bessie Smith's fault that Rag Doll focuses on the 1920s era and its music. Both musicians have this rare mix of raw emotion and bawdy, down-to-earth humor that lets them travel back in time into the Gilded Age – which may have been a golden age for music, but not necessarily for Bessie and her contemporaries Ma Rainey, Ethel Waters, and Alberta Hunter.

Ulrikke Hanspach-Torkildsen's extrovert, virtuoso style on trombone completes the classic Bessie Smith Trio line-up. Together, the three Berliners grab their public by their heartstrings and take them onto a trip back to the heyday of ragtime, boogie-woogie, Harlem Stride and barrelhouse. The spark lights immediately and the stage is transformed into a fabulous old juke joint in the American South of the 1920s. And rule number one is: Anything goes! You can just listen, groove along, or dance until you burn the house down.
Welcome to the Roaring Twenties!

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Käthe von T. - Vocal


Ulrikke Hanspach-Torkildsen, - Trombon, Vocal


Amy Protscher - Piano, Percussion, Vocals