We call ourselves a rock band because we really don't know how else to define a band with as much diversity in influence as we are. Fusion would be the second guess. We focus on solid rythyms and emphasize melodic overtones, resulting in a hell of a show! Give us a shot, you might like us so much, you'll want us back...
Category:
Band - Rock
Additional Category:
Band - Rock
Genre:
90s Hits, African, Alternative, Ambient, Beach Music, Big Band, Blues, Caribbean, Folk, Funk, Fusion, Grunge, Jazz, Latin, Metal, Pop, Reggae, Rock, Soul, Top-40, World Music
Party Band,will bring a great atmosphere into any venue,always a crowd pleaser, super charged non-stop energy, songlist can cover every range or jandra of music from one end of the specturm to the other...can do all original shows as well as , cover material..exceptional songwriting within band..
Category:
Band - Rock
Additional Category:
Band - Blues
Genre:
60s Hits, 70s Hits, 80s Hits, 90s Hits, 2000s Hits, African, Alternative, Bluegrass, Blues, Caribbean, Christian Rock, Country, Dance, Folk, Funk, Fusion, Jazz, Rythym and Blues, Reggae, Rock, Ska, Soul, Top-40
TRU FAM- up and coming Hip Hop Artist Group becoming known for their street & club banger anthems along with their poster boy looks are at it again with their smash "Pump Ya Brakes"
Category:
Singers - Hip Hop Singer
Additional Category:
Singers - R and B Singer
Genre:
2000s Hits, African, Hip-Hop, Rythym and Blues, Rap
Adam was born in Kenya and began performing at an early age. He was the co-founder of Canada’s great pan-African band, the Afronubians. After forming his own band, Tikisa, he released the award-winning Safari and Rocket Express II: African Renaissance Blues. Collaborating with the musicians of African Guitar Summit, he won a 2005 Juno Award and performed at the Live 8 concert. The African Guitar Summit’s second CD has been nominated for Best World Music Album 2006. With Tikisa, he released his latest CD, Mti wa Maisha (Tree of Life), at Lula Lounge in the spring of 2006. Tikisa delivers a fresh, eminently listenable sound...an intoxicating blend of Afro-Rumba, Fiesta, and contemporary Kenyan rhythms that will lift your soul and make your feet move. Visit us at www.adamsolomon.ca
Tato Torres &
YERBABUENA
Boricua ("Puerto Rican") Roots Music
A new Boricua generation is embracing their traditional musical expressions. The work of Tato Torres & YERBABUENA is the product of everything that leads to a contemporary Puerto Rican musical experience.
YERBABUENA (one word) is a group of individuals who come together to play the music that they love under the musical direction of singer-composer-musician Tato Torres. It is composed of musicians, singers and dancers from the New York City area, who share an intense passion for the musical traditions of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean.
The last thing that will come to your mind while at a YERBABUENA event is that you're watching a show, it feels more like a cross between a jam in the park, a spiritual ceremony and a family reunion. They convey wholeness and harmony, and their music is moving beyond belief. The music they play is, by nature, participatory. Whether bomba, plena or música jíbara (Puerto Rican mountain music), it's all interactive. And being witness to their vibrant sounds and the deep joy that making music together gives them, just leaves the audience no choice but to join in the chorus or dance for the drums. After a YERBABUENA session, you'll be uplifted, tired and happy.
The concept of YERBABUENA developed during the summer of 1999 at the renowned Rincón Criollo Cultural Center (aka "La Casita de Chema") in the heart of the South Bronx, and has been growing since. It developed out of the need for cultural expression, redefinition and re-appropriation of the Puerto Rican musical heritage by a new generation of Boricuas. For a long time, Puerto Rican musical traditions have been constricted by commercial culture and generally limited to holidays and "folkloric" presentations.YERBABUENA is an important part of the struggle to develop and promote identity through living Puerto Rican musical traditions such as bomba, plena and música jíbara.
While well-recognized Boricuas like Willie Colón, Marc Anthony and Ricky Martin are known worldwide for their "Latin" flavor, groups like Plena Libre, Los Pleneros de la 21, Viento de Agua, and now YERBABUENA, have been changing the way people listen to traditional Puerto Rican music in New York City and beyond.
YERBABUENA reclaims the Puerto Rican music often branded as "folkloric," refusing to accept its packaging as frozen-in-time museum pieces, only vaguely connected to contemporary culture. Instead, they make gorgeous music that incorporates past and present. YERBABUENA taps right into the core of who Boricuas are as a People.
Category:
Band - Dance
Additional Category:
Band
Genre:
African, Beach Music, Caribbean, Folk, Latin, World Music
Mountain Lions International - Orfordville, Wisconsin
“Making this World a Better place to Live” is the mission of the Mountain Lions International.
Sierra Leone West Africa, Wisconsin USA, and Mexico are the homelands of this culturally diverse group of musicians who met in the unlikely place of Whitewater, Wisconsin.
Mountain Lions International’s roots go back to 1997 when Dan and Joe as two UW-Whitewater students began assembling lyrics. Jon began jamming with them in the basement in 1999. Chris was sent to sit in with the Lions in Nov 2003 temporarily. Juan was added in the summer of 2005. Each of the Mountain Lions contributes their unique skills, talents, temperament, and culture to this musical group.
The MLI first played out at the Friends of Africa Picnic in July 2000 at Dretzka Park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Another 2 years of writing lyrics and putting them to music brought the Lions to being chosen to perform in an annual “Battle of the Bands” event on the UW-W Campus. The Lions receiving first place for their 45 minute set in that event was the impetus for starting to gig. It was a very exciting time for the MLI and they made sure they could perform for the three plus hours required of solo band performances in Wisconsin taverns. During 2005 MLI performed 106 times in eight states in a variety of venues to a diversity of audiences.
MLI’s “Afre-rok” music (a blend of African, Reggae, and Rock) is unique to them and displays the diversity of their musical and cultural backgrounds. Mountain Lions International music also represents their attitude about life; it is about all peoples of the world getting together and solving their differences, about joy and respect for one another. The MLI lives and breathes this concept; it is evident on their faces, how they treat one another and others, and in the lyrics of their original compositions they call ‘positive vibrations’.
MLI infects their audiences with the message “‘we must love one another”. Spend time with the Mountain Lions International and you will be keeping time, smiling, and asking, “When are these guys coming back”?
Category:
Band - Rock
Additional Category:
Band - Wedding Band
Genre:
African, Beach Music, Caribbean, Reggae, Ska, World Music
