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Red Square, downtown Albany's venue for live, original music, is pleased to announce that The Skatalites - with their roots in the foundation of ska and rocksteady in Jamaica - will be performing live on Saturday, June 30, 2012. Tickets are on sale now at www.redsquarealbany.com, and are $17 in advance and $20 at the door. Doors open at 8 p.m. Opening the show will be New Paltz's favorite rocksteady/ska/reggae outfit The Big Takeover (bigtakeoverband.com).
For more information, visit www.redsquarealbany.com, call the club at 518-465-0444, or reply to this email address - info@www.redsquarealbany.com.
Check out some recent Cheap replica handbags press on The Skatalites:
Jamaicas answer to the Motown house band and Booker T. and the MGs combined
ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE
I first knew the bittersweet theme from The Guns of Navarone from a 1961 hit instrumentalbut it was nothing like the Skatalites version that Don Drummond adapted. The melody is the same, of course, but with the blazing horns and heavily pronounced beat, it was totally on fireand so full of life that remains the hallmark of ska and the Skatalites.
Jim Bessman | BILLBOARD MAGAZINE
I saw the Skatalites at the Palace in Los Angeles in 1989, playing with Bad Manners. I remember how astonishingly tight they were, and how swinging their jazzy ska groove was. Ive been an admirer for at least
wow, is it 20 years by now?
Phil Freeman | Managing Editor: GLOBAL RHYTHM MAGAZINE
I am comforted each time I hear The Skatalites. They are each and all a precious keepsake of what is wonderful and joyous about Jamaican culture.
Pat McKay | Reggae Format Gucci replica handbags Manager: SIRIUS SATELLITE RADIO
The Skatalites are pure energy: hot like fire, with a scorching, skanking rhythm and big-band bravado.
Mark Harris | Editor: REGGAEREVIEWS.COM
About The Big Takeover:
The Big Takeover is a high energy sextet, with a refreshingly upbeat, yet groove oriented, party-making approach to interpreting the Jamaican tradition of rocksteady, ska and reggae music. Formed in the funky college replica handbags town of New Paltz, NY in 2007 and named after bassist Rob Kissner and drummer Sam Trittos proclivity for commandeering the stereo at campus parties, this band of self taught musicians has aquired a habit of making audiences look, listen and dance.
With over 300 live performances in the Northeast, ranging from Maine to North Carolina and a studio album (Following Too Close 2008) behind them, the band look forward to what their 2011 release, Tale of My Life, is leading them to.
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