OPEN POST: Manor Music Monday With The Peters Sisters!

Clear the way! They're comin' through! Virginia, Mattie Jane and Anne Louise. That's right, the sisters. Are. In. The. House. Lucky you, you'll hear them tonight at the Manor's exclusive "Crisco Twister" after-hours club, where DJ Li'l Scratch will be spinning The Peters Sisters, a powerhouse vocal trio who started out singing at their local church in the early 1930s in Los Angeles. People took notice. In no time at all, they were swingin' and singin' at the popular Trocadero Club in Hollywood. Then the movie industry took notice. Called "rotund and delightfully upbeat," they appeared as a novelty act in several 20th Century Fox movies, though their numbers were cut from prints distributed to the South. But no matter, since they continued killing at various night clubs, including The Cotton Club in Harlem where they performed with Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway, thankyouverymuch. Yet these were international sisters, mind you, for t...