KIDS CONCERT: OzoKids on Saturday, January 29th at SLO Brew!
If music matters to you, then this is the perfect occasion to introduce your little tikes to the passion of a live concert. SLO Brew had success last year with Hip Hop Harry (Discovery Kids), and now they’ve scored a show that will thrill us adults as equally as the youngins. The ten-piece multicultural music collective known as Ozomatli have tailored their explosive, energetic stage show into a jump-around-recess-block party. Bring your kids, borrow your nieces and nephews, babysit your cousins! The show is this Saturday, January 29th at 3pm in the afternoon.
Celebrated Los Angeles culture-mashers Ozomatli welcome the New Year with a series of “Ozokidz” shows – a special family friendly set geared towards children and adults alike.
Many Ozomatli fans who’ve embraced the band since their inception now have kids of their own, and Ozo are thrilled to now offer a show that an entire family can enjoy together. The band are currently in the studio with acclaimed producer Tony Berg, recording a children’s album for release in 2011.
Ozomatli has spent 15 years working diligently to spread its message of peace, communication and understanding through music, with a long standing tradition of performing for children all over the world, from the schools of North St. Louis to the orphanages of Southeast Asia.
Vocalist Asru Sierra adds, “we felt it was a great idea to do a family record so that everyone can come together and dance as a family at our shows. And they don’t have to be kids, as long as you’re a kid at heart… which we all were to begin with, anyway!”
CONCERT: The Lovin’ Spoonful tonight (1/26) at SLO Brew!
Tonight at SLO Brew, you can take a trip back to the era of the British Invasion and the gleeful sound of AM-Pop with The Lovin’ Spoonful. Recently reunited, they were inducted in the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame in 2000. The show starts at 7pm with openers, Unfinished Business.
Right on the tails of the Beau Brummels and the Byrds, the Lovin’ Spoonful were among the first American groups to challenge the domination of the British Invasion bands in the mid-’60s. Between mid-1965 and the end of 1967, the group was astonishingly successful, issuing one classic hit single after another, including “Do You Believe in Magic?,” “You Didn’t Have to Be So Nice,” “Daydream,” “Summer in the City,” “Rain on the Roof,” “Nashville Cats,” and “Six O’Clock.” Like most of the folk-rockers, the Lovin’ Spoonful were more pop and rock than folk, which didn’t detract from their music at all. Much more than the Byrds, and even more than the Mamas & the Papas, the Spoonful exhibited a brand of unabashedly melodic, cheery, and good-time music, though their best single, “Summer in the City,” was uncharacteristically riff-driven and hard-driving.
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