The Faux Frenchmen are acoustic guitarists Brian Lovely and George Cunningham, acoustic bassist Don Aren, and violinist Paul Patterson (clarinetist Joe Lukasik substituted for Patterson on this occasion). They've played Hot Club-driven 1930s gypsy jazz in and around Cincinnati and the Eastern and Midwestern U.S. Since 2002. The Faux Frenchmen adapt the Hot Club's instrumentation and style in forging their own re-Americanized vision of gypsy jazz.