SILA! San Francisco Carnival After Party

Description

Bring your dancing shoes!

Sila has played such prestigious events as the inaugural Outside Lands Music Festival, Stern Grove Festival, Sierra Nevada World Music Festival, Fillmore Jazz Festival (headliners for five years in a row including at the 25th Annual festival), and Earthdance Festival Festival.

Joining Sila on stage will be Samba Dancers from the San Francsico Carnival Parade.

Winner of NAACP Image Awards and SF Weekly Music Awards, SILA a native of Kenya, sings of the African experience: the problems he and many others face every day, in a language understood throughout the world. His lyrics and beats reflect the music, the language, the energy, and the spirit of growing up in Africa.


The band's current lineup consists of:
Dave Shul: Guitar (Michael Franti & Spearhead)
Roger Cox: Tenor saxophonist
Mike Shiono: Bass
Khalil Doak-Anthony: Guitar
Bennie Murray: Drumm
Andre Webb: Trombone

In keeping with his mission to combine music with humanitarian efforts, SILA has for the past five years co-produced the Afrofunk Festival, raising musical consciousness among audiences to raise much-needed funds for education, medical, and health services for East African children orphaned by the AIDS epidemic. Playing benefit shows, Sila explains, is his way‚ to stay connected to other people, to remember that it's not only about us but community."

SPECIAL GUESTS
DJ JEREMIAH (AKA MR AFROBEAT)
THE EMPRESS
NAIMA SHALBOUB

Press Reviews:

"The best of all possible worlds in World Music terms: uptempo, polyrhythmic, socially conscious (but not pedantic), strikingly melodic, and eminently danceable." - San Francisco Bay Guardian

"Mixing the legendary sounds of Fela Kuti with some tricks gleaned from James Brown and P-Funk,Sila and company create a dancefloor-ready throb guaranteed to move you." -San Francisco Weekly

"James Brown's dance floor boogie strut infused with the manic drumming and serpentine guitar jams of Sila's native Kenya." -San Francisco Magazine

"Guaranteed to keep you glued to the dance floor." -San Francisco Bay Guardian

Winner, "Best Funk Band" Los Angeles Music Awards

"Kenyan Funk Master" - San Francisco Chronicle

Africa's James Brown" - Oakland Post

More Info

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http://www.brickandmortarmusic.com/event/101849/

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