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ANNUAL GALA DANCE PARTY WITH SOULSHA at Next Stage

Apr
06
ANNUAL GALA DANCE PARTY WITH SOULSHA at Next Stage
Next Stage Arts Project will host its annual Gala Benefit event, Dance Party, to benefit Next Stage programming, featuring the Afro-Celtic Funk band Soulsha on Saturday, April 6 at 7:30 pm. The party will include an auction, great food and a beer and wine cash bar. Soulsha is a party, a revolution, and an adventure through different traditions. It brings together some of Boston’s top musicians in Scottish, West African and Funk music to create a sound you won’t find anywhere else on the planet Soulful call and response singing, masterful improvisation, traditional Sengalese and Scottish dancing and incredible energy make every Soulsha show and unforgettable live experience. Intricate rhythms, soaring bagpipe melodies, and New Orleans-infused horn lines come together seamlessly, and the joy of music rises above all the differences, reminding us that were all in this together. The band formed through a series of serendipitous meetings in the thriving and intersecting multi-cultural melting pot of Boston. Many of the members are virtuosic and highly esteemed tradition-bearers in their styles. In Soulsha, they saw a chance to bridge divides. The music they’ve created is a conversation between cultures that breaks music they’ve created is a conversation between cultures that breaks down all boundaries, moving the audience to abandon their assumptions as they lose themselves on the dance floor. Soulsha will delight lovers of everything from jam bands to bluegrass. While it shares obvious roots with afro-Celt Sound Systems electronic fusion, the funk-inspired sound of Soulsha puts tradition and interchange center stage, bringing the party energy of Rebirth Brass Band and the cultural gravitas of masters like Malian Toumani Diabate. The sound is fun but deep, fresh but familiar, immigrant and yet deeply American. For several years, Soulsha has been developing their sound while bringing audiences to their feet at a string of northeastern US Festivals. This is purely infectious stuff. It’s fresh, bold and exciting and defies you to listen without moving and grooving to the beat. — Boston Irish Reporter Don’t miss the party everyone will be talking about! Tickets are $35 each or two for $60 and at the door, and purchase includes a raffle ticket to a pair of tickets to a Next Stage event, and Next Stage swag. For more information contact info@nextstagearts.org or call (802) 387-0102. Next Stage Arts Project, winner of a National Endowment for the Arts and ArtPlace America grants, is a non-profit organization dedicated to revitalizing Putney’s cultural and economic village center through theprogramming, development and operation of Next Stage. The newly renovated performance space at 15 Kimball Hill is now accessible, comfortable and air-conditioned, with a great dance floor.
Date and Time
April 6, 2019 @ 7:00 pm
Location
Next Stage
15 Kimball Hill
Putney
VT 05346
Contact
rweisel
802-387-0102



Next Stage Arts Project will host its annual Gala Benefit event, Dance Party, to benefit Next Stage programming, featuring the Afro-Celtic Funk band Soulsha on Saturday, April 6 at 7:30 pm. The party will include an auction, great food and a beer and wine cash bar.

Soulsha is a party, a revolution, and an adventure through different traditions. It brings together some of Boston’s top musicians in Scottish, West African and Funk music to create a sound you won’t find anywhere else on the planet Soulful call and response singing, masterful improvisation, traditional Sengalese and Scottish dancing and incredible energy make every Soulsha show and unforgettable live experience. Intricate rhythms, soaring bagpipe melodies, and New Orleans-infused horn lines come together seamlessly, and the joy of music rises above all the differences, reminding us that were all in this together.

The band formed through a series of serendipitous meetings in the thriving and intersecting multi-cultural melting pot of Boston. Many of the members are virtuosic and highly esteemed tradition-bearers in their styles. In Soulsha, they saw a chance to bridge divides. The music they’ve created is a conversation between cultures that breaks music they’ve created is a conversation between cultures that breaks down all boundaries, moving the audience to abandon their assumptions as they lose themselves on the dance floor. Soulsha will delight lovers of everything from jam bands to bluegrass. While it shares obvious roots with afro-Celt Sound Systems electronic fusion, the funk-inspired sound of Soulsha puts tradition and interchange center stage, bringing the party energy of Rebirth Brass Band and the cultural gravitas of masters like Malian Toumani Diabate. The sound is fun but deep, fresh but familiar, immigrant and yet deeply American. For several years, Soulsha has been developing their sound while bringing audiences to their feet at a string of northeastern US Festivals.

This is purely infectious stuff. It’s fresh, bold and exciting and defies you to listen without moving and grooving to the beat. — Boston Irish Reporter

Don’t miss the party everyone will be talking about!

Tickets are $35 each or two for $60 and at the door, and purchase includes a raffle ticket to a pair of tickets to a Next Stage event, and Next Stage swag.

For more information contact info@nextstagearts.org or call (802) 387-0102.

Next Stage Arts Project, winner of a National Endowment for the Arts and ArtPlace America grants, is a non-profit organization dedicated to revitalizing Putney’s cultural and economic village center through theprogramming, development and operation of Next Stage. The newly renovated performance space at 15 Kimball Hill is now accessible, comfortable and air-conditioned, with a great dance floor.