Key West The Newspaper

The Professor And Mary Ann will delight the patrons of Saluté! On The Beach on Friday from 6-9 PM with their whimsical charm. The winners of this year’s 53rd Annual OIRF Conch Shell Blowing Contest in the Group Category have expanded on that success to form a duo so they can continue to share their love of music with others. Their music is a mix of the old and the new – swing tunes from the 1920s-1940s, novelty tunes and rockers from the 1950s, and original songs from both participants. The instrumentation is a bit unusual – mandolin, ukulele, glockenspiel, kazoo, and conch. All in all, it’s a refreshing departure from business as usual: lighthearted, whimsical, and utterly charming.

It’s a tale as old as the sea and as new as today, of dichotomy and duality, of the unlikely yet natural pairing of disparate elements: old and young, knowledge and innocence, low and high, great and small, plain and pretty, landlubber and seafarer – The Professor and Mary Ann. What began as a brief foray into uncharted waters has evolved into an odyssey with no end in sight. Each time they set up to entertain it’s a three hour tour of unparalleled delight.