THE BEAST IS BACK! The original monsterfunkers return home for the first New Orleans Afroskull appearance since 2007! Join us at the legendary Maple Leaf Bar on October 23rd for an awesome merging of the classic New York AND New Orleans Afroskull lineups. We are super psyched to welcome back Matt Barone on keyboards for the first time in seven years! Along with Funky Dollar Bill on bass, and one of our fiercest horn sections ever, this show will be huge!!!
AFROSKULL @ THE MAPLE LEAF
Saturday, October 23, 2010
with:
Joe Scatassa – guitar
Bill Richards – bass and vocals
Matt Barone – keyboards
Jason Isaac – drums
Seth Moutal – percussion
Jeff Pierce – trumpet
Michael Jenner – sax
Rick Trolsen – trombone
with special guest The Madd Wikkid and more!
In other news:
- November marks one year since the release of To Obscurity and Beyond. It’s been a great year filled with plenty of shows, awesome reviews, radio airplay and, best of all, new fans. Thanks to everyone who has been a part of it! We’ll be closing out the year with our last show of 2010, appropriately enough at the Bitter End in NYC. Join us at 11:30pm on Friday, November 5th.
- The latest review of To Obscurity and Beyond is a keeper. Check it out at the ProgArchives.
- We got a great recording of a recent show at the Bowery Poetry Club. Stream it or download for free at the Live Music Archive.
- Eyewitnesses are reporting that two of our songs were used in another episode of Man V. Food on the Travel Channel. Listen carefully to hear the ‘Skull in MvF’s recently-aired Knoxville episode (among many others).
- Don’t waste your vote this election season. Vote for Afroskull in the Jambands.com 250!