Otis Redding and Friends - Johnny G & The E Types

Name: Otis Redding and Friends - Johnny G & The E Types
Start: 2024-10-19T17:30:00+10:00
Location: Centro CBD Wollongong

Schedule

Sat Oct 19 2024 at 05:30 pm

UTC+10:00

Location

Centro CBD Wollongong | Wollongong, NS

On October 19, soul music lovers in the Illawarra will come together to celebrate one of modern music’s most prolific and soulful entertainers, Otis Redding.
On October 19, some of Sydney’s finest musicians return to Centro CBD to pay tribute to the sweet soul music of Otis Redding with a special concert. Come and experience his soul classics performed by Sydney’s finest and authentic soul band, Johnny G & the E Types featuring special guest vocalists Glenn “Soul Man” Whitehall, Soul Sista # 1 Julz Di Sisto and the E Types horn section.
Just some of the many Otis Redding soul classic hits performed at this series of concerts include Sitting on the dock of the bay, Hard to handle, Mr Pitiful, These Arms of mine, Try a little tenderness, Love Man, Shake, Security, I can’t turn you loose, Pain in my heart, I’ve been loving you too long, Respect…. plus much more soul.
Johnny G & The E Types will also perform the soul classics of Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, Etta James, Eddie Floyd, Dusty Springfield, Sam & Dave, Booker T & The MGs and mo’. Hits including In The Midnight Hour, Knock On Wood, Mustang Sally and You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Women will get you up dancing like it’s Memphis 1967.

Otis Ray Redding, Jr. (September 9, 1941 – December 10, 1967) was an American soul singer. Often called the 'King of Soul', he is renowned for an ability to convey strong emotion through his voice.[ According to the website of the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame (where he was inducted in 1989), Redding's name is 'synonymous with the term soul, music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm and blues into a form of funky, secular testifying.' In addition, rock critic Jon Landau said in 1967, 'Otis Redding is rock & roll'. Redding died in a plane crash at the age of 26, one month before his biggest hit, '(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay', was released.