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What an amazing night, and perhaps the most "Snarky" experience I have had.
As you probably know, SP just gave what Michael called their shortest tour in history (2 nights; DC & Brooklyn).
This was not a traditional Snarky Puppy concert, but a tribute to one of their influences, Susana Baca. In this was, it reminded me a bit of the Dallas Empire Central sessions honoring Bernard Wright. It also echoed their Family Dinner series.
The concert featured four Latina singers, Silvana Estrada, Silvia Perez Cruz, Gaby Moreno and Fuensanta. Each was amazing. There was not a dud song all night.
As with the best of Snarky, it was ensemble work and a celebration of other musical traditions, with opportunities for spotlight solos (Zach, Marcelo and Bill in particular). It was an embrace of complicated rhythms (at one point there were 7 percussionists!).
By the last song and the encore, the entire 3,000+ audience was standing and dancing to the music.
I am glad we already have a bootleg recording of the show, but I would encourage Michael and the Pups to mater and release this, at least semi-officially. Every hard core Snarky Puppy fan will love this concert, and it is a great way to introduce casuals to the band.
I will try and upload a few more videos as comments.
To all involved, BRAVO! for such a wonderful night of music.
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Definitely hope they do a real release of this show it was great! I saw them do something similar back in 2017 at Carnegie hall and I’ve never found a recording of it since. I’m still hoping that one pops up eventually
oh, it's certainly being released. there were at least 10 people on the film crew, each with probably ten thousand dollars worth of equipment on their person.
Thanks for this! I wish I'd been in the area to go!
Don’t know about Brooklyn, but they were running a lot cameras at the Kennedy Center. I’m hopeful for a DVD release. I would snap that up in a heartbeat.
No dvd. That was PBS cameras, don’t know when they’re airing it.
Wish I coulda gone
Pardon me while I sound like a whiny baby, but I didn't realize they weren't going to play ANY Snarky Puppy music. Obviously the music was phenomenal, but my 7 year old has been listening to all the albums nonstop for the last 4 months, and didn't get a chance to sing along with the band on anything she would have recognized. She was probably the youngest person at the show and we had a good time, but not even one Latin style SP hit we could groove to. End rant.
Exactly. The whole show was extremely disappointing. I'd been listening to Snarky for 10 years in my home country but they never performed there. Came to the US and thought I'd witness all many great acts, including Snarky which has set up a lot of home ground in NYC with GroundUP etc.
Turns out they chose NYC's King Theatre, their largest venue yet, to put 4 randos on the stage for their first and last show together, half of them had 5 minute stupid monologues and no talent compared to Snarky Puppy's members who not just chose to remain silent throughout the show, but did not even play their own music in their own show!!!???
What the heck was that? I am so frustrated and offended with this display of disrespect to listeners who somehow managed to attend 1 show of theirs.
Absolutely no reason to disrespect the talent of the guest singers here. This is just an unbelievably ignorant take. Anyone with ears could appreciate how talented those singers were and any true fan of SP would have an open mind when it comes to hearing them play new music we haven’t heard. I understand being frustrated if you weren’t aware of the nature of the show before paying for tickets, but that information was readily available.
Agree 100%. I admit I wasn’t as familiar with the Family Dinner concept, so it was a bit of a surprise for me, but a very pleasant one, indeed. Voices were great, and I really appreciated their different styles. Truly four very distinct musical styles.
Those two shows stated very clearly that those extremely talented women would be featured those two nights. Did it specifically say we wouldn’t be playing SP tunes, no. You should ask for your money back since you’re that disappointed. However, the level of disrespect in your comment is completely out of line. The members did what we were there to do, which was make amazing music with amazing artists and each other.
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Im sorry you were disappounted, but they were pretty explicit that this would not be a normal concert. From the Kings Theater site: “ In a very special show mirroring their “Family Dinner” series, 5-time Grammy winners Snarky Puppy will play host to four of the most important singers in the Spanish-speaking world. Silvana Estrada (Mexico), Silvia Pérez-Cruz (Spain), Gaby Moreno (Guatemala) and Fuensanta (Mexico) represent different generations, continents, and musical traditions, but are bound together by their ability to communicate the deepest of emotions through song. This very special performance will feature music by all four women arranged by and performed with Snarky Puppy.”
In any case, I'm not disappointed as much by the absence of Snarky OCs, but rather how talentless the guests were and how ridiculously bad most of their songs were, and how Snarky puppy just became a background music band with not much left to add since the compositions were so featureless.
I've never been to a worse concert in my entire life. I am appalled at Snarky's decision to include people with such a disparity in musical abilities than themselves on such an important stage and ruin the show.
Yeah but they weren't explicit about them ONLY doing this and not performing ANY of their own compositions. Not one instrumental song, only shitty vocals.