This past Saturday, a friend and I attended a house concert given by Roy Wooten (also known as Futureman, drummer for Bela Fleck and the Flecktones). The concert, after opening with an A Capella number by a Chinese Opera singer, featured a program based on “The Black Mozart“, including dramatizations based on his life and a performance of some of his music.
And then things got interesting. Roy led a string quartet in playing several movements of a new quartet he recently wrote while adding percussion, and then invited Ron Block (from Alison Krauss & Union Station) to join in on Banjo. After playing about five movements, he decided to switch to the Remix versions and asked a DJ, a Rapper, a Dancer, and a French Horn player to join in. I don’t think I can say I’ve heard that combination before, but I sure hope to again. It was a very cool concert.
I still liked Spike Jones and the whole “Lets string up a toilet seat and use that as a musical instrument” idea, although a DJ, a rapper, a dancer, and a french horn player, could be (almost) as good.
I saw Bela Fleck, Sam Bush, Edgar Myers, Roy Wooton and a special appearance by Victor Wooton a few years back in springfield MO. I think it was one of the the top 5 best concerts I have ever been to.
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okay, so you go to the coolest concerts ever. I think the wootons are the most amazing musicians, and I would pay an insane amount of money just to see vic play again…
There is a Flecktones concert here in Nashville on the 19th of this month at the Ryman Auditorium that I’m planning on going to. More info here