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Red Baraat (ArtYard, Frenchtown, NJ, March 10, 2024) [DID NOT ATTEND]

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[DID NOT ATTEND: March 10, 2024] Red Baraat

My family and I saw Red Baraat seven years ago at a free festival.  They were great.

Their sound?

Red Baraat is “the pioneering 8-piece Brooklyn Bhangra, party juggernaut…. the drum and brass + guitar band delivers an unprecedented, high energy, gut-busting fusion of jazz, hip-hop beats, rock muscle, funky go-go, and scalding hot bhangra.”  And what’s that?  Well, bhaṅgṛā is a type of upbeat popular music associated with immigrant Punjabi youth. It was invented in England starting in the 1970s by people from the Punjab region of India and Pakistan.

I have definitely wanted to see them again. They play around, but never conveniently.   They played in Philly on the 29th, but I couldn’t go.  Then I found out that they were playing in ArtYard in Frenchtown!

I went to get us tickets and found out it was sold out!   Which is awesome for the band and the venue.  I hope this means they’ll bring even more cool bands to their location and I hope it means that Red Baraat will come back.

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Joseph Keckler (ArtYard, Frenchtown, NJ, February 2, 2024) [DID NOT ATTEND]

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[DID NOT ATTEND: February 2, 2024] Joseph Keckler

I saw Joseph Keckler open for Sleater-Kinney five years ago.  It was a great and memorable performance:

The short version is that he has an utterly amazing voice.  It is deep and rich and operatic and I can honestly say I have never been in the presence of someone who could sing like that before.

But he doesn’t sing opera.  Well, he does, sort of.

He came out on stage and didn’t introduce himself.  He asked us how we were doing and then said that he wasn’t doing great.  Then he turned on a laptop and played a musical motif and he began to sing in beautiful Italian.  The video screen behind him projected the translation of the words.  And they were hilarious.

It was a song about going to a party and eating shroom-laced chocolate.  Then walking home and wanting to kill himself until he remembered he had to brush his teeth.  It is called, naturally enough “Shroom Trip Opera.”

I saw that he was touring and then I was shocked that he was playing in Frenchtown (not all that far from me).  I was thrilled to discover there was a performance space closer than Philly.  So he introduced me to this location as well. (more…)

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