Metromix Chicago has named Chicago Afrobeat Project one of the Top 10 Acts at Taste of Chicago.Check out the full story, and check out ourshow on Monday, June 29. The show will feature our dancers, our friend Antar as vocal emcee, and our old pal Chadwick for some live painting. It’s a Power Show ya’ll! Everybody say “yeah yeah!!'”
Summer Tour on it’s way…
Our West Coast tour ’09 is approaching the final stages of planning. We’ve got dates booked for the 4th of July weekend through the 3rd weekend of July. The band has confirmed performances in Colorado, Oregon, and California. Some highlights include a show on July 4th at the Peak to Peak fest in Nederland CO, a set at the Oregon Country Fair, Bend Fest near Eugene OR, Yoshi’s in San Fran, Zanzibar in Santa Monica, and others. Check in the ‘Shows’ section for complete details.
Later in the summer we’ll be heading to the Southeast with a stop at the Mulberry Mountain Music Festival in Arkansas, then heading out to hit some other cities in the surrounding states.
Indy and Cleveland this weekend (4/10 & 4/11)
What’s up, ya’ll?
Ahh… the economy. It’s on everyone’s mind. But there’s no better way to put aside recession blues than to head to an afrobeat show. Whether our country is beginning to bounce back from the economic downturn or not, the CAbP tour machine hits the road again this weekend with a quick run east. We stop at the Jazz Kitchen in Indianapolis on Friday, 4/10 and at Brothers Lounge in Cleveland on Saturday, 4/11.
In other news we’re deep into our next studio project — probably a little over halfway complete with the entire album. We have more recording to do in the next couple months, and we’ll then dig into the intense editing/mixing phase in late June.
We’re taking a different conceptual approach to this work which will surprise both critics and fans a like. Plenty of special Chicago guests will be featured as is the case with our other albums, but the overall sound is different for us this round. It’s still CAbP, but we’re approaching the songwriting from a different mindset — and keeping a tight seal on all the surprises.
We’re working on the project over at Fullerton Recording Studios in Logan Square run by our keyboardist and engineering whiz Kevin Ford. Check it out:
We’ll see you this weekend:
Friday, 4/10 – Indianapolis, IN
The Jazz Kitchen
10 pm
$10
Saturday, 4/11 – Cleveland, OH
Brother’s Lounge
10 pm
$5
supported by: Groove Prophets
Peace people!
CAbP