This Friday brings us to Lucas School House in Saint Louis for an evening show, then Saturday at the Broadway Oyster Bar for an afternoon show (3pm). That night, we’re performing at “Forty Niner Bye Bye” in Springfield, Illiinois. Then a late added show–House of Blues on Sunday–sets us opening up once again for Steel Pulse, international mainstays in Reggae. Thanks to all our supporters for keeping us moving! Too bad the Bears lost a fair fight in Miami, but yo, in 2027, when we’re in our fifties, they’ll come back for what they left behind!! They’ll be passing scoring touchdown bombs and we’ll be passing kidney stones! PEACE!, WE OUT…
St. Louis, Davenport, and Chicago
This weekend (Feb. 1st through 3rd) takes us down to St. Louis for a show at Wash U (private / for students), then to the Red Stone Room once again in Davenport, Iowa, and back on Saturday for our “First Beat” show at the Kinetic Playground. The last show at Kinetic drew one of the funnest crowds there for us so far. We start at around 1:30 AM. Kinetic Playground is across the street from the Aragon Ballroom on Lawrence, near Green Mill and the Riviera.
The Red and Black: “Chicago Afro-beat Project set to perform funk, jazz in Athens”
This article originally appeared in “The Red and Black.”
For a type of music that originated in Nigeria, Africa, Afro-beat has come a long way to have reached the Chicago, Ill., area. Now the jive is heading south, as the Chicago Afrobeat Project comes back to Athens’ own Georgia Theatre.
Drummer Marshall Greenhouse said the tour would start in Athens due to the good experience they had playing here last summer.