A selection of global music stars will help raise the temperature at the Hare and Hounds this July and August, promising summer sounds, tropical beats, feel-good live experiences with plenty of funk, reggae, soul, jazz, hip-hop, disco, Afrobeat, Latin and Caribbean music on the menu.
Daddy G 22 July Hare & Hounds Birmingham
Grant ‘Daddy G’ Marshall, co-founder of influential UK group Massive Attack, was partly responsible for shaping the distinct, atmospheric and beat heavy sound of trip-hop in the early 1990’s, drawing inspiration from Jamaican sound-system culture whilst pushing the boundaries of vocals, instrumentation and music technology. Following the success of Massive Attack’s fifth and well received studio album Heligoland, the producer and musician returns to the Hare & Hounds on 22nd July for a live show featuring local collective the Alternative Dubstep Orchestra who mesh dub, dhol drumming, ska, tabla, brass and much more, showcasing the very best of musical styles Birmingham has to offer. Advance tickets £8.
Roy Ayers 24 July Hare & Hounds Birmingham
On 24th July, US soulful hip-hop producer Pete Rock will join legendary vibraphonist Roy Ayers and his band for a ground-breaking band, DJ and MC experience featuring live sampling, beats and rhymes alongside performances of tracks from Ayers’ celebrated back catalogue.
Bronx-born soulful hip-hop producer and DJ Pete Rock has racked up 25 million record sales, worked with Kanye West, Lady Gaga, Run DMC, Madonna and KRS-One amongst other artists and has seen his music used in hit TV show The Wire as well as in cult film Menace to Society. Roy Ayers, a long-time funk, jazz and soul star, is widely recognised as one of the prophets of acid-jazz and has led R & B bands, collaborated with African superstar Fela Kuti, ventured into house music and penned classic rhythmic tracks like Everybody Loves The Sunshine and We Live In Brooklyn, Baby. Advance tickets £15.
Will Holland, aka Quantic, who plays at the Hare & Hounds with his Columbian jazz band Combo Barbaro on 5th August, is one of the world’s foremost proponents of Latin, Caribbean and African flavoured dance music. The group’s recent album Transition in Tradition is a multi-cultural patchwork of cumbia, deep funk, tropical dub and many styles in between. In 2007 Holland moved to Cali, Colombia’s third largest city, to pursue his passion for both unearthing lost treasures from Colombia’s musical past and making new music with the golden array of talent available today. Now in 2011, in partnership with the city’s Soul Food Project Soundsystem, Quantic brings his heady mix of good time grooves to Birmingham, promising a night of rare sounds and infectious rhythms at the height of summer. Advance tickets £15.
Alternative Dubstep Orchestra 22 July Hare & Hounds Birmingham
Pink Floyd, Radiohead and Beatles fans may already be familiar with the reggae collective Easy Star All-Stars, following the release of their best selling and critically acclaimed albums Dub Side of the Moon, Radiodread and Easy Star’s Lonely Hearts Dub Band, the latter being the first reggae album to break the Billboard top 200 twice in twenty years. The New York based band, who have a rotating roster of musicians, released their first album of original material earlier this year. Support for their appearance at the Hare & Hounds on 10th August comes from UB40’s Brian Travers and Dubber. Advance tickets £15.
Easy Star All-Stars 10 Aug Hare & Hounds Birmingham
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