PSA - public service announcement(s)
• Béla Fleck and The Flecktones were just touring recently and doing gigs with Bruce Hornsby and the Noisemakers. Both bands played Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield (Littleton, CO) on July 24, 2011.
Just last week, the Live Music Archive admins were asking us patrons for listener favorites shows that were taped this summer. They wanted to hear the best shows to be listened to, so they could be considered for Staff Picks. A taper named "Royboy" recorded this show. On Aug 5, he torrented it to etree (the folks who run the LMA) for public sharing. Last week I uploaded this show to the LMA and put it into the Béla Fleck and The Flecktones collection (over 300 shows). Then I recommended it for Staff Picks. They selected it, and now
it appears on the LMA home page, under Staff Picks (right side of web page).
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones Live at Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield on 2011-07-24Béla Fleck and The Flecktones:
-Howard Levy - keyboards, harmonica
-Victor Lemonte Wooten - bass
-Béla Fleck - banjos
-Roy "Future Man" Wooten - synthaxe drumitar, percussion
Guests:
+ with Bruce Hornsby - piano, accordian, vocals
* with Casey Driessen - violin
^ with Bruce Hornsby and the Noisemakers:
-Bruce Hornsby - piano, vocals
-John "J. T." Thomas - keyboards, organ
-Bobby Read - saxophones
-J. V. Collier - bass
-Doug Derryberry - guitar
-Sonny Emory - drums
Notes:
-- Co-Headline with Bruce Hornsby and the Noisemakers
-- Each band played one long set
-- The Flecktones closed the show
-- During Prickly Pear, Bruce joins Howard for the piano breakdown. Two men, one piano
-- Freedom Jam is a Howard harmonica solo / jam following various traditional USA song themes
-- Falani includes a prelude by Béla
-- A Night On The Town was a duet with Béla Fleck and Bruce Hornsby only
-- For the final songs of the encore, both the Noisemakers and the Flecktones full bands were on stage
• I was just telling this story to Planet Bluegrass and Denver Botanic Gardens several days ago. Both of these organizations were sponsors of, and vendors at,
The 2011 Sustainable Living Fair, held this past weekend in Fort Collins, Colorado. I volunteered there and visited with both of them.
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