Gabe Barnett stopped by. New releases by Lindi Ortega, Barrence Whitfield & The Savages, J & The Straight Shot, Lord Huron, Elise LeGrow, Victor Wainwright & The Train, Blackberry Smoke, Marshall Lawrence, Peter Karp, Kyle Hollingsworth of String Cheese Incident. Plus, vintage tunes by Spirit, The Animals, Champion Jack Dupree, Gene Pitney, Maria Muldaur, and Anders Osborne. If you play this back, louder is alway better with this show.
Opening with further tribute to flugelhorn and band leader, legend Hugh Masekela – and Bob Marley… a tip of the hat (and a bow) to Tony Allen… then on to Ethiopia ! A couple tracks from an East-coast based brass ensemble the "Debo Band", along with popular vocalist "Gigi" – both inspired by Ethiopia. Also I add a West Coast American-Ethiopian vocalist, Meklit. Then a set of female vocalists that I admire quite a bit… first a set of Lila Downs (coming to the Ordway again in early March, you probably shouldn't miss it !
