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Joy Dragland + Azro Cady + Dilemastronauta @ The Way Station
Live Music: May 1, 2015, 8pm-12am, The Way Station, 683 Washington Ave, BK, http://waystationbk.blogspot.com/ $5 suggested donation
8pm- Joy Dragland
Genre: pop, funk
Joy and the Boy bring the party with them wherever they go! Blending their own pop and funk grooves, as well as the occasional fun cover song, the band features singer-songwriter Joy Dragland and musician/producer Leo Sidran (son of Ben Sidran). Their first performance as a duo was in Madison, Wisconsin at a 2000 political rally at the Wisconsin State Capitol in front of 30,000 people. Since then, they’ve released three studio albums and their cover of Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On” debuted in the Top 40 pop radio charts in Spain.
http://www.joydragland.com
9pm- Azro Cady
Genre: Rock and Roll
For fans of: McClintock Sphere, Richard Katz. Smiling Jack Ebbets
Harry Smith on milk.
“These guys make great songs fly and train dreams come true.”- Robbie Leaver, BIRDTHROWER
www.azrocady.com
10pm- Dilemastronauta
Genre: Experimental Latin Soul
For fans of: Susana Baca, Roy Ayers, John Coltrane.
“The astronaut is one of the few individuals who gets an opportunity to see the earth as a whole from above and by doing that a new sense of being part of a big picture is brought upon him”. This new vision is what has inspired Andres Jimenez who is a drummer, percussionist, arranger, song writer and composer from Bogota Colombia and who is based in New York city since 2000: “Dilemastronauta is my attempt to depict the Astronaut’s dilemma which is -I am from here but also from there, I am from everywhere… it is the immigrants dilemma here on earth, I try to translate this feeling through sounds and visual art.
According to www.bodymusicnyc.com: “ Dilemastronauta brings jazz, rhythm, and intense percussion together for a beautiful and unique sound...”-
www.dilemastronauta.com
