ACCLAIMED STRING BAND RANI ARBO & DAISY MAYHEM IN CONCERT AT THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ART- JULY 9
THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ART
5200 Woodward Avenue in Detroit
Show times: TWO SHOWS- 7:00 PM and 8:30 PM
Ticket price: Free with museum admission.
Venue website: http://www.dia.org
Information phone: 313-833-7900
This evening will also include gallery tours,
drop in art events and workshops for the entire family:
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Meet Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem:
Meet Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem:
Wicked grooves, sublime lead singing, great harmonies, sparkling original songs, and a deep repertoire that spans 200 years of American music. Four people who share an irresistible chemistry on stage- an unusually gleeful string band that celebrates both tradition and improvisation that stumps the categorizers and thrills audiences.Musically, Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem serves up a jubilant and unabashed mix of traditional, original, and contemporary sounds. Arbo’s beautiful, expressive alto is at the helm, with rich four-part harmonies, a 100% recycled drum set, fiddle, guitar, and bass. These artists draw their vintage American sounds and their incisive songwriting from the same deep well. In one show you might hear a pre civil war song from the Georgia Sea Islands sung over a New Orleans style groove or an old Irish fiddle tune with new lyrics, capped with a solo on a South American box drum.
A Leonard Cohen song with claw hammer banjo?
An original Unitarian funk gospel song?
You begin to get the idea.
With influences from Doc Watson to Django Reinhardt, from Ghanaian drumming to the funky Meters, and from Fiddlin’ John Carson to Bob Dylan, daisy mayhem celebrates America’s rich musical past and brings it into the present. Their show fearlessly explores the nooks and crannies of the human condition; The Boston Globe called it “playful and profound.” Here are four musicians who pick up what’s lying around — from tin cans, to old songs, to stories — and create something wonderful and new. Ranky Tanky, the band's stellar family album was released in January, 2010 and was the winner of the Parent's Choice 2010 award for best family CD.