View Full Version : it appears there will be new orleans horns a plenty at this years heat wave..
PaulC
03-30-2009, 06:27 PM
by way of wmnf,.. in their quest to secure some donations by way of a fund drive,.. wmnf personal made mention this afternoon that trombone shorty, big sam,.... aaaaaand,.. bonerama are all on board for this years heat wave,.. the 28th annual,.. on the 16th of may....
30 bands,.. six stages,.. one more great night of music on the horizon....
sounding very much like a must do evening for those so inclined....:D
festbabe
03-30-2009, 06:51 PM
Nice!
PaulC
03-30-2009, 07:21 PM
Nice!
well,.. you got the bones headin' your way in a few days,.. and likin' the sound of that april 4th swamp thingie also down your texas way.........
and,.. as per the bones schedule,.. they should be nice and rested for that tampa heat wave evenin'.....
Apr 2 2009 9:00P
Pearl at Commerce Dallas, Texas
Apr 4 2009 4:45P
The Swamp Thing and Crawfish Festival Austin, Texas
Apr 10 2009 8:00P
Maple Leaf New Orleans, Louisiana
Apr 18 2009 10:00P
Rummel High School - High School Fundraiser Metairie, Louisiana
Apr 19 2009 5:30P
French Quarter Festival New Orleans, Louisiana
Apr 23 2009 10:00P
Tipitina’s Uptown New Orleans, Louisiana
Apr 24 2009 9:00P
Festival International de Louisiana Lafayette, Louisiana
Apr 25 2009 10:30P
Rock n Bowl New Orleans, Louisiana
May 2 2009 3:00P
New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival New Orleans, Louisiana
May 2 2009 10:00P
Mid-City Lanes - Rock n Bowl New Orleans, Louisiana
May 2 2009 10:00P
Rock N Bowl New Orleans, Louisiana
May 3 2009 10:00P
Maple Leaf New Orleans, Louisiana
May 16 2009 6:00P
Cuban Club - Tropical Heat Wave Tampa, Florida
by the way,.. last year the weather was beyond great for the two outdoor stages,.. one of which i'm sure the bones will honor this year....
as for last year,.. there was a story or two regardin' rumors of mornin' showers which mr. freebo may wish to share at some point.... i know his mornin' of volunterin' activity left the man with a near unquenchable thirst for the offerin's of the olden bear family that evenin'...
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Galactic
Bonerama
Eric Bolivar 04/04/09 Sat Louisiana Swamp Thing and Crawfish Festival Austin, TX
pleadin' ignorance but didn't know eric headlined............
Galactic
Bonerama
Eric Bolivar 04/04/09 Sat Louisiana Swamp Thing and Crawfish Festival Austin, TX
pleadin' ignorance but didn't know eric headlined............
Actually, the headliner is War:
http://www.roadwayevents.com/RoadStar/Events-cat.asp?media1Id=1321
If Austin were a little closer, if we didn't have the Bones locally on Thursday, if I didn't have FQF and JF in the next month, then I'd be thinking seriously about the road trip.
PaulC
03-30-2009, 07:49 PM
Actually, the headliner is War:
http://www.roadwayevents.com/RoadStar/Events-cat.asp?media1Id=1321
If Austin were a little closer, if we didn't have the Bones locally on Thursday, if I didn't have FQF and JF in the next month, then I'd be thinking seriously about the road trip.
i stand corrected.......
thanx swag.....................
i actually knew he wasn't headlinin' the event,.. my ignorance was more in the fact that i didn't know he headlined his own sets......
and it's only a three hr. ride for you.. isn't that like 30 minutes in texas time???.... ya' might wanna let the call of road win for that seemingly fine event.........
or come visit tampa for the heat wave.... i'll be glad to guide ya'.... only 30 bands,.. and but one evenin' to enjoy.... florida produced foms,.. not quite fest like,.. but enough to drive ya' jus' a lil' cray-zeeee.....
Fred (Texas JF Fanatic)
03-30-2009, 07:57 PM
Actually, the headliner is War:
http://www.roadwayevents.com/RoadStar/Events-cat.asp?media1Id=1321
If Austin were a little closer, if we didn't have the Bones locally on Thursday, if I didn't have FQF and JF in the next month, then I'd be thinking seriously about the road trip.
damn, you would have to post that :)
and it's only a three hr. ride for you.. isn't that like 30 minutes in texas time???.... ya' might wanna let the call of road win for that seemingly fine event.........
Well, it's 200 miles. But I-35 is notorious. On a good day, 3 hours. On a bad day, well, a lot longer.
festbabe
03-30-2009, 08:37 PM
well,.. you got the bones headin' your way in a few days,..
..
I'm there :D
Belle
03-30-2009, 08:47 PM
Actually, the headliner is War:
http://www.roadwayevents.com/RoadStar/Events-cat.asp?media1Id=1321
If Austin were a little closer, if we didn't have the Bones locally on Thursday, if I didn't have FQF and JF in the next month, then I'd be thinking seriously about the road trip.
I used to take my motorcycle for a ride from Ft. Worth to get hamburgers at Dirty Martin's..you can do this
Actually, the headliner is War:
http://www.roadwayevents.com/RoadStar/Events-cat.asp?media1Id=1321
If Austin were a little closer, if we didn't have the Bones locally on Thursday, if I didn't have FQF and JF in the next month, then I'd be thinking seriously about the road trip.
That ain't the 'real' War either. It's just Lonnie Johnson who won the name in court. The rest of the band, the 'real' War is known as the Original Low Riders.
Lonnie is causing them no end of trouble- they book shows and comes and steals them away, or he files suit if the advertising says anything about "formerly known as War".
please don't patronize Lonnie and War, he's evil!
Do patronize Original Low Riders. They played at Ray's Room two Fests ago and were the bomb biggety!!!!
PaulC
04-04-2009, 12:06 AM
forced to sit here doin' some late night business crap,.. made somewhat easier by the addition of a rapidly drainin' glass of wine,.. bottomless almost.... while listenin' to the funkiest,.. horn filled version of "rock steady" by aretha that i know of,.. i suddenly felt the need to surf....
by way of surfin' that goofy world wide net i found me some gold nuggets....
some additions expected,.. but from what i gather,.. this here is the most recently announced headliners of the 2009 heat wave lineup..
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BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet - the best known Cajun band in the world. Bandleader Michael Doucet is often credited as the key figure in popularizing Cajun music.' In their live show, the Grammy winners present the best of Cajun musical traditions, filling dance floors and exciting festival audiences everywhere.
Chuck Prophet and Mission Express - longtime WMNF favorite whose music has come to encompasses a dizzying array of styles - an affection for sweeping pop-soul and funky spaced-out blues, roots rock, wry humor.
Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue - Trombone Shorty's set at the 2007 Tropical Heatwave was a revelation: a young artist, a consummate entertainer who we will be hearing for decades to come.
Michael Burks – (by way of funkie junkie land) Guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Michael 'Iron Man' Burks stands tall as a major contemporary blues figure. With a nickname earned by his hours-long, intensely physical performances, fearsome guitar attack, tough, smoky vocals and the thousands of miles logged behind the wheel of his touring van, Burks is a modern blues hero. Nobody in today's blues world successfully bridges searing electric guitar blues with unbridled rock and roll energy like Burks. The Chicago Sun-Times recently said Burks is 'poised on the brink of major stardom.'
Sara Borges and the Broken Singles - Inspired by a plethora of American music, from the classic country of Bob Willis and Wanda Jackson to the modern Boston and L.A. punk scenes, Sarah Borges and The Broken Singles blend steel guitar and hard-driving rhythms into an infectious brand of roots-rock. In previous appearances at WMNF's Birthday Bash and Rockabilly Ruckus, Borges showed she is a terrific crowd pleaser.
Bonerama - When Bonerama struts onstage with its four-trombone frontline, you can guess it's not quite like any rock 'n' roll band you've seen. When they tear into some vintage New Orleans funk, there's no questioning from which city these guys hail. And when those 'bones start ripping into Hendrix and Led Zeppelin licks, all stylistic bets are off. Even in a city that doesn't play by the rules, New Orleans' Bonerama is something different.
Eilen Jewell Band - (note to me,.. request her "high shelf booze" tune) Jewell's heart-achingly hushed style and intimate grasp of roots music's wild graces were revealed in her first two CDs. Set to a swaying, irrepressible groove, the subdued emotion in her soft soprano feels like music straining beneath skin. We eagerly await her new album where her elegantly unflinching songwriting combines with a rustic, pre-Beatles swagger that encapsulates vintage R&B, Midwestern garage rock, Chicago blues, and early rock and rockabilly, while maintaining the haunting, folk-inspired purity that first made her an artist to watch.
Big Sam's Funky Nation - Presiding over his Funky Nation is Big Sam, formerly the trombonist for the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, who blows the funk out of his trombone and refuses to let the audience sit still. Between solos and trombone riffs, Big Sam second-lines (a uniquely New Orleans style of street-dance) and gets the crowd going both in movement and in replies to his call-and-response MC-style. A talented group of jazz-trained musicians makes up the Funky Nation, bringing with them the improv-style associated with jazz and the horn-heavy front section that's the hallmark of big band funk.
Kinobe and Soul Beat Africa - Soul Beat Africa, coming directly from Uganda, have been bringing their energetic and highly visual show to audiences across Europe and Africa for several years, and this is their first North American tour. These musicians represent the new vanguard of Ugandan performers, gifted instrumentalists steeped in the music of their homeland, but with ears opened to the sounds of the world at large. Driving poly-rhythms underlay transcendent melodies. Traditional African instruments – koras, kalimbas, adungus, endongos, ngonis, drums – blend with guitars and keyboards, drawing on influences from around the globe. This is a new groove for a new world.
Blair Carman and the Belleview Boys - (by way of that round eye ;) ohio land) 'The best thing to happen to honkytonk and rockabilly piano playing since Jerry Lee Lewis.' - a phrase that's been used to describe the wild piano pounding rock-n-roll talent of this young man from Cincinnati Ohio. Take the 1957 hands of Jerry Lee Lewis and the 1957 look of Elvis Presley and the raw energy of those two artists and what do you get? A piano pumpin', thumpin rockabilly kid named Blair Carman.
Modern Skirts - The Athens alternative indie pop quartet is on a rise to success, accelerated by the release of the new All Of Us In Our Night. Music fans all over the world are learning who this band is and are loving what they're hearing. So are industry insiders and some world-famous friends. Mike Mills of R.E.M. and David Lowery of Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker produced tracks on the new CD.
Bonerama - When Bonerama struts onstage with its four-trombone frontline, you can guess it's not quite like any rock 'n' roll band you've seen. When they tear into some vintage New Orleans funk, there's no questioning from which city these guys hail. And when those 'bones start ripping into Hendrix and Led Zeppelin licks, all stylistic bets are off. Even in a city that doesn't play by the rules, New Orleans' Bonerama is something different.
We saw them on Thursday night, and the frontline is down to three trombones.
When they came thru town a couple of months ago, they had replaced the sousaphone with a bass (4 bones, guitar, bass, drums). On Thursday, they were still a seven man band, but they had added keyboards (3 bones, guitar, bass, drums, organ).
They still get mighty funky when they want to, though.
PaulC
04-09-2009, 10:53 PM
jus' sayin'........
Cuban Club Ballroom
6:00 -- 7:00
The Duppies
7:20 -- 8:20
Cold Joon
8:40 -- 9:50
Blair Carman and the Belleview Boys
10:10 -- 11:10
The Vodkanauts
11:30 -- 12:50
James Intveld
Cuban Club Bandshell on the Patio
5:10 -- 6:10
Johumames Posse
6:35 -- 7:45
Sara Borges and the Broken Singles
8:10 -- 9:40
Michael Burks
10:05 -- 11:35
Chuck Prophet and Mission Express
11:55 -- 1:05
Magadog
Cuban Club Cantina
5:10 -- 6:05
The Mojo Gurus
7:45 -- 8:45
Eilen Jewell Band
9:05 -- 10:05
Kinobe and Soul Beat Africa
10:25 -- 11:25
Pack A.D.
11:45 -- 12:45
The Beauvilles
El Pasaje Plaza
5:40 -- 7:10
Big Sam's Funky Nation
7:40 -- 9:10
BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet
9:40 -- 11:10
Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue
11:30 -- 1:00
Bonerama
New World Brewery
6:00 -- 6:45
Birdstreet Players
7:00 -- 7:45
Lauris Vidal
8:00 -- 8:45
Roppongi's Ace
9:00 -- 9:45
Ted Lukas & The Misled
10:00 -- 10:45
Will Quinlan & The Diviners
11:00 -- 11:45
GreyMarket
12:00 -- 12:45
The Sheaks
Orpheum
6:30 -- 7:30
Stolen Idols
7:50 -- 8:50
Poetry Showcase
8:20 -- 9:30
David Dondero
9:10 -- 10:10
Modern Skirts
11:40 -- 12:40
The Visitations
goin' by the abc thing they thought wise to teach us early on,.. three of the 1st five bands out of 30,.. when considered alphabetically are from n.o.....
may need to evenly split the big sam time frame with a local b-team,.. the bird street players.... http://www.myspace.com/worldjeff
much like the best fest there is,.. ready and rarin' for lots of movin' feet to get to the beat.....