Vieux Farka Touré – African guitar master / World Music legend
9/3/2011
Traveling down Linden Blvd towards JFK Airport, Vieux Farka Touré had a realization. Having just left The Bunker recording studio in Brooklyn, he was discussing the sessions with his manager, Eric Herman. A newly constructed song, played in part by his father—the great Malian guitarist Ali Farka Touré—came on over the car stereo, and Vieux said, “This is what we call ‘the secret of the blues.” The two friends laughed, though it quickly dawned on him that his off-the-cuff remark was a perfect summation of his third album. The Secret (Six Degrees Records) was born.
Special LATE act - Space Capone - Mad, Electronica dance wizard
"Harmonically sophisticated, Transformation is a commercial funk record that effortlessly combines banality and exactitude in its search for a plausible heaven that includes personal appearances by Al Jarreau....The best funk of the early ’80s—Gladys Knight and the Pips’ brilliant “Bourgié Bourgié,” say, or Chic’s “I Got Protection” and “Real People”—itched with unfulfilled desires and misgivings about the value of its own sophistication. Space Capone’s music has integrity, but it might benefit from some alienation—a state of mind that almost always trumps the bourgeois compulsion to tame the past." - Nashville Scene
FREE - Vieux Farka Toure at 7pm! Special late night Dance Jam with Space Capone 9pm to welcome back U.T.C. students!
"On the Water" - Paddler’s night.
Paddle to the concert in your kayak, canoe or standup paddleboard. Meet L2Boards, the TN Valley Canoe Club, Waconda Bay SUP Yoga and many more paddling folks.
