The Beat Root Blues Band Live at Goa Chitra With surprise guest artists.
The blues is a unique form of music that is getting a revival after decades all across the world. For Goans this music is a rare opportunity and history was created at the Goa Chitra amphi-theatre last December with the “Beet Root Blues Band” performing for the first time in Goa. It was a phenomenal first performance and by public demand this all blues band is all set to rock Goa once again on Saturday 15th Jan. 2011 at the Goa Chitra amphi-theatre as part of The Great Music Revival Concert series 2010-2011. This concert series is a creative initiative to raise funds and bridge the gap between the past and the present with the musical ingenuity of Goa’s own testimony to its rich unforgettable musical past, the concert is scheduled to showcase local and international talent.
This band has been billed to perform alongside five time Grammy winner Buddy Guy and other blues legends like Jonny Lang, Shemekia Copeland and Matt Schofield at the Mahendra International blues festival in Mumbai scheduled for the 4th, 5th and 6th of February.
The Beat Root Blues Band features Pratish Motwane on vocals/harp, Dave Kelly on guitar, Colin D'Cruz on bass and Claude Abranches on drums. And this time round there will be some surprise guest artistes who will jam with the band.
Pratish has been passionate about music and the blues in particular as far back as he can remember. He balances a career in the corporate world where he is on the board of directors of several multinationals, with his music career that took off in New York City where he was based in the early nineties. He returned to India and decided to tilt the scale in favor of the blues forming The Beat Root Blues Band in 2004 and then touring the length and breadth of the country over the last six years belting out nothing but every style of the blues.
Dave is a UK based, smoking hot blues guitar player who has toured the world as the wailing guitar in innumerable all blues bands. He will be recording and touring with The Beat Root Boys over the next six months. Dave plays every blues man’s favorite axe the Fender telecaster and actually makes the instrument emote onstage. He has been influenced by all the legends that blues has produced over the years and looks forward to performing alongside some of them when the band performs at the biggest ever international blues festival in Mumbai come February 2011.
Colin used to be one of the original members of the band before he moved to Goa in 2008 to set up base as a music producer. He runs a state of the art recording studio from his home in Sangolda and has been recording and broadcasting local talent on Goa's 105.4 FM Rainbow. Pratish reconnected with Colin when he decided to record his own songs and along with the recording project, he decided to go on the road with the band once again.
Claude is one of India's drum legends. He has been at it for close to four decades starting off as a nightclub drummer in the early seventy’s. He gigged with just about every jazz/blues artiste in Mumbai and around the country on five star hotel residencies before hitting the concert and festival circuit. He has an amazing feel for rhythm and sinks naturally onto the groove of a song even if he plays it for the first time.
The concert promises to fire up the audience once again with some smoking blues right through the evening.
Every track they cover shall bare a distinct stamp of each musician’s fire power. Be there to enjoy the sheer energy created onstage through some exciting interplay between four virtuosos and their guests.
The event will start at 8.00 p.m. sharp on Saturday 15th Jan. 2011 and is inclusive of dinner. There would be limited entry; members and guests are requested to confirm their booking by 12th of Jan to avoid disappointment.
For details contact on 08326570877/ 08322772910/09850446065 or email [email protected].
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