Cha Wa + Tyron Benoit
Schedule
Sat, 29 Apr, 2023 at 08:30 pm
Location
The Rabbit Hole | New Orleans, LA
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Grammy award nominated @chawaband returns to the @therabbitholenola on the first Saturday of Jazz Fest!Saturday, April 29th
with support from @tyronbenoitband
Doors 8:30 | Show 9:30 *sharp*
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About Cha Wa
New Orleans brass band-meets-Mardi Gras Indian outfit Cha Wa radiates the energy of the city’s street culture. “My People,” the band’s follow up to their Grammy-nominated album “Spyboy,” feels like pure joy, a distillation of generations of New Orleans expression. But it also never fails to remind us how hard-won that joy was and still is: not least in the tense, funky and explosive title track, with its declaration “My people, we’re still here.”
“Mardi Gras Indian songs are inherently songs about freedom,” the band’s drummer Joe Gelini says. “And that struggle is as relevant today as it’s ever been.” Popmatters describes the band as "a grand gumbo of singing, intoxicating rhythms, and deep funk grooves that are impossible to resist.”
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"I’ve seen the future of New Orleans music and its name is Cha Wa." - Paste
“Powerful, relatable, vibrant.” - NPR All Things Considered
"Cha Wa, with bass lines played on sousaphone plus trumpet and two trombones, bring the city's brass band tradition to bear. Add sick jazz-funk guitar, and...full-beaded holiday regalia, and the result was a portable Mardi Gras Dance Party!" - Rolling Stone
“Cha Wa blends Mardi Gras Indian tradition and modern pop magic.” – No Depression
About Tyron Benoit:
Tyron hails from Houma, Louisiana, where music and culture are plentiful.
"Growing up around the house, I remember hearing a lot of classic country: George Jones, Hank Williams (Sr. and Jr.), Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings, and Ernest Tubb. Going to my grandpa's house is where the Cajun and Folk influences came from. He was a fantastic fiddle and harmonica player. But when we left the house, it was Led Zeppelin, Toto, and Steely Dan. Everybody was into classic rock, and it was good!"
Tyron recalls, "I remember the first record I ever owned. It was a Ray Charles album. I must have been around 10 years old. Even when sharing a record player with three other brothers, or when the player finally broke, I just remember holding onto it, hiding it, like it was a piece of treasure. Little did I know how valuable it really was in terms of musical influence. I wouldn't realize that 'til much later in life, but looking back, it never left me, holding onto that record, even when I couldn't play it. Ray Charles is still one of my all-time favorites."
Tyron has graced many stages over the years from New York to Colorado to Austin and back home in Louisiana. This year he has been invited to play the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, French Quarter Festival, and
Rum Boogie Cafe (Memphis), Shack-Up Inn (Clarksdale), the Durango Blues Train, Sunbanks Festival, the Silver City Blues Festival, and much more...
The Tyron Benoit Band brings the grooves and the heat to every performance and never fails to fill a dance floor...
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Where is it happening?
The Rabbit Hole, 1228 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd,New Orleans,LA,United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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