Ghost-Note Smack ‘Em Tour Kicks Off Right After GroundUP Music Festival
Snarky Puppy percussion beasts Robert “Sput” Searight and Nate Werth have this plan to funk everything up. Their Ghost-Note is intent on doing exactly that, an amalgam of jazz, hip hop, funk, and world with band and a rotating cast of friends who join the conversation from time to time.
They’ve been at it since 2015, with their first album Fortified and last year’s Swagism. Let’s check out the band members — and their amazing pedigrees!
Robert “Sput” Searight (Snarky Puppy, Herbie Hancock, Kendrick Lamar) – drums; Nate Werth (Snarky Puppy) – percussion; A.J. Brown (Snoop Dogg, Fred Hammond) – bass; Dwayne “MonoNeon” Thomas (Prince) – bass, guitar; Sylvester Onyejiaka (Prince, Quantic) – baritone sax, tenor sax, flute; Dominique Xavier Taplin (Prince, Toto) – keyboards; Jonathan Mones (Funky Knuckles, RC & The Gritz) – alto sax, flute; and Mike Jelani Brooks (Kirk Franklin, RC & The Gritz) – tenor saxophone, flute.
Regardless of which set of musicians actually steps on stage in front of you, you WILL be funked up, and you’ll say THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
Their Smack ’Em Tour 2019 begins this Friday (February 8th) in Miami Beach at the GroundUP Music Festival, also featuring performances by Snarky Puppy (all three nights), David Crosby, Bokanté, and Lalah Hathaway. They continue with six dates with outstanding South Florida fusion band Electric Kif, beginning with a show presented by Bungalow Entertainment at The Abbey in Orlando (Leisure Chief also on the bill). From there, they hit three other Florida venues before heading to Charleston and Atlanta.
The beginning of March finds Ghost-Note on the West Coast for five shows with Umphrey’s McGee before returning to the East Coast for shows from Massachusetts to North Carolina, including two with Brandon ‘Taz’ Niederauer, and they’re slated for Electric Forest in June.
Ghost-Note: good for what ails you, no matter what it is!
GHOST-NOTE SMACK ’EM TOUR 2019
02/08 GroundUP Music Festival | Miami Beach FL
02/09 GroundUP Music Festival | Miami Beach FL
02/13 The Abbey | Orlando FL w/ Electric Kif
02/14 Dunedin Brewery | Dunedin FL w/ Electric Kif
02/15 Heartwood Soundstage | Gainesville FL w/ Electric Kif
02/16 1904 Music Hall | Jacksonville FL w/ Electric Kif
02/17 Charleston Pour House | Charleston SC w/ Electric Kif
02/19 Aisle 5 | Atlanta GA w/ Electric Kif
02/20 5 Points Music Sanctuary | Roanoke VA
03/01 Fox Theater | Oakland CA w/ Umphrey’s McGee
03/02 The Wiltern | Los Angeles CA w/ Umphrey’s McGee
03/07 Midtown Ballroom | Bend OR w/ Umphrey’s McGee
03/08 McDonald Theater | Eugene OR w/ Umphrey’s McGee
03/09 Showbox SoDo | Seattle WA w/ Umphrey’s McGee
03/14 Regatta Bar Jazz Club | Cambridge MA
03/15 New Park Brewing | West Hartford CT
03/16 (le) poisson rouge | New York NY w/ Brandon ‘Taz’ Niederauer
03/17 The Ardmore Music Hall | Ardmore PA w/ Brandon ‘Taz’ Niederauer
03/18 Creative Alliance | Baltimore MD
03/20 Jammin’ Java | Vienna VA
03/21 Pisgah Brewing Company | Black Mountain NC
03/22 Heist | Charlotte NC
03/23 The Pour House Music Hall | Raleigh NC
03/24 High Rock Outfitters | Lexington NC
04/21 Star Theater | Portland OR
06/28 Electric Forest Festival | Rothbury MI
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