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Sunday April 5, 2009 -- Fred Wesley & The New JBs with Laura Reed & Deep Pocket
7:00 pm
Tickets: $22 in Advance, $25 Day of Show.
Call 540-745-6643
OR
Stop by Fret Mill Music in Roanoke, Rocket Music in Blacksburg or the Harvest Moon in Floyd
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 One of the music world's most-sampled artists thanks to his work with the Godfather of Soul James Brown, Fred Wesley is one of the key architects of funk music. Born in Mobile, Ala., he began his professional career as a teenage trombonist with Ike and Tina Turner. He was music director, arranger, trombonist and a primary composer for James Brown from 1968-1975, then arranged and played for Parliament-Funkadelic and Bootsy’s Rubber Band. He has played with and arranged for a wide variety of other artists including Ray Charles, Pancho Sanchez, New York Voices, Slide Hampton, Van Morrison, the SOS Band and Cameo, to name a few.
 Laura Reed & Deep Pocket will kick off the night for Fred Wesley. Laura Reed & Deep Pocket fill the stage with captivating, soul shaking, and conscious music. The crowd is immersed with lyrics of truth and a voice of intensity backed by bass, organ, drums, horns, and harmonies reminiscent of Motown and funk.
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| Friday April 24, 2009 -- Enter the Haggis
9:00 pm
Tickets: $16 in Advance, $19 Day of Show.
Call 540-745-6643 OR Stop by Fret Mill Music in Roanoke, Rocket Music in Blacksburg or the Harvest Moon in Floyd
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 There aren't many groups in North America who could lay claim to possibly 18 different genres of music, but Toronto's Enter The Haggis is one of them. To engage this quintet is to indulge rock, fusion, bluegrass, traditional Celtic fare, agitpop, folk, even Latin flavors. Sounds awfully confused, right? Wrong. ETH is one of those rare jewels that actually pulls it all off as if to own everything.
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