Snarky Puppy will be making their live premiere in Singapore on the 23rd of October 2014. It will be held at the Kallang Theatre at 7:30 PM and tickets are available now through SISTIC Website: www.sistic.com.sg, SISTIC Mobile app, SISTIC Hotline: (65) 6348 5555 and SISTIC Authorized Agents. http://www.sistic.com.sg/events/puppy1014
Snarky Puppy is a collective of musicians in Dallas and New York City playing an infectious mixture of jazz, funk and world music. Music to move the brain and booty.
The once Texan, now New York-based, Grammy award-winning quasi-collective Snarky Puppy has gone from the best-kept secret to one of the most respected names in instrumental music. Although still "underground" in many respects, the band has earned high praise from critical stalwarts like the BBC, Village Voice, Guardian, and Boston Herald, and has performed at some of the best venues and festivals in Asia, Europe, Australia, and North America.
The band has always used live performance as its chief form of evangelism, and maintains a more intense tour schedule than almost any band in the idiom. Over the course of 2013, Snarky Puppy gave almost 200 performances and workshops on four continents, including North Sea Jazz, Monterey Jazz Festival, Jazz á Vienne, Blue Note Tokyo, and the Melbourne International Jazz Festival.
Debuting in 2004 and releasing a series of well-received albums along the way, Snarky Puppy finally gained the recognition they deserved after 10 hardworking years. Their most recent album, “Family Dinner - Volume One,” earned a Grammy for Best R&B Performance with featured guest Lalah Hathaway, as well as charting #1 on the ITUNES Jazz Charts.
Bandleader, Michael League shared his band’s journey during his speech at the Grammys: “I started this band ten years ago at a little college in Texas, and they spent the last ten years with me, eight of them touring very unglamorously on the road and sleeping on floors and couches, and to be here, right now, is completely unimaginable.”
Snarky Puppy seamlessly fuses a deep knowledge and respect for musical tradition with sonic and conceptual innovation in a way that is able to reach the most critical- or most carefree- audience. The convergence of musicians from white and black America (who also perform regularly with artists like Erykah Badu, Snoop Dogg, Kirk Franklin, Justin Timberlake, Roy Hargrove, and Marcus Miller among others), which occurred while the band was in its adolescence at the University of North Texas, has naturally established a system of balance that instantly draws listeners to the music- raw funk and sensitive dynamics, relentless pocket and lyrical melodicism, lush harmony and soulful simplicity, and most importantly, a delicate mixture of composition and improvisation.
The group is led by award-winning bassist/guitarist/composer/arranger Michael League, whose creative grass-roots approach to a tougher-than-ever industry has created a new model for independent artists. Snarky Puppy is a three-headed creature: first, and most obviously- an original music ensemble. Second- a production team and session band for individual artists. Third, and probably most importantly- Snarky Puppy is a group of musicians enthusiastically committed to music education and community outreach. Working with groups like ROAM (Roots Of American Music) in inner city Cleveland and the Music Lab at Jefferson Center in Roanoke, as well as giving clinics at hundreds of colleges, high schools, and middle schools worldwide, the band has made a strong commitment to spreading their love of music and general positivity to a young generation looking for something real to be inspired by.
Check Snarky Puppy out! All musicians/music lovers would enjoy! Pure live with zero overdubs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuhHU_BZXSk - WHAT ABOUT ME
http://youtu.be/kk0WRHV_vt8 - SHOFUKAN
http://youtu.be/eZBlRkF0-to - THING OF GOLD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pYHLfKqHL4 - YOUNG STUFF
