Our family went to their show last year at the Gardens, and our 3 year old daughter, Juliana, was an unstoppable dancing machine until the end of the show. If you saw a screaming brown haired kid not wanting to leave after the last song, that was probably her. She spent nearly the whole show up near the stage dancing with the adults.
If you have no idea who this band is, check out these YouTube videos:
Here they are playing "Ain't nothing with that" on Letterman, which was also used in some NBC commercials last year. Typically if David Letterman says that the next band is going to "blow the roof off the dump", it is going to be good.
Here they are playing "I need more love" on Letterman.
I wish their cover of "Purple Haze" from the Conan O'Brien show was on YouTube.
From the
GR Press:
The series continues June 16 with the return of Robert Randolph, who delivered, in my opinion, the best Gardens concert of 2007, buoyed by some stunning pedal-steel guitar work and an infectious, soul-rock sound.
This time around, he's fronting the Robert Randolph Revival, coming straight to Grand Rapids from Tennessee's Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival. The group will play only a limited number of dates with a host of gifted pedal-steel guitar players and singers.
"We're probably one of the luckiest venues around to be able to snag it," said Chris Mautz, who books the Gardens' concert series. "I'm stoked about that. The buzz (about Randolph) coming out of last year will spread and get people excited about it.
You can see the complete summer line up for the Gardens
here.
