Bluesfest Touring are thrilled to confirm yet another series of fantastic New Zealand sideshows, adding to the array of talented artists already announced to perform their own shows in our major cities next Easter.
2015’s Bluesfest sideshows are fair bursting at the seams with options to choose from. Music fans should prepare their diaries to make sure they don’t miss out on what promises to be a most impressive 2015 Bluesfest Touring Season.
Daptone/Dunham alumni Charles Bradley will be bringing Funk, Soul and his remarkable story to New Zealand next March. Along for the ride will be his all-star band The Extraordinaires, (comprising of members of The Dap Kings, The Menahan St Band, Budos Band and others) – a combo that will blow away audiences both in the intimate club circuit and festival scenes.
“Every brass blast and chicken scratch could have come straight off a 1968 Stax Records release, but it’s Bradley’s ragged, resilient powerhouse singing that makes this soul…”
Rolling Stone, Top 50 Best Albums of 2011
“Cathartic, explosive soul that reaches deep and shakes you to the core.” Austin American Statesman, SXSW review
Charles Bradley burst onto the scene after releasing his widely-praised debut album No Time For Dreaming (2011) at the tender age of 62. His incredible against-all-odds rise has
been well-documented: how he transcended a bleak life on the streets to soul super-stardom, after being discovered impersonating James Brown by Daptone Records in Brooklyn.
A glistening voice in modern soul, with distinctively rough-hewn timbre, it’s the unmistakable voice of experience and personal connection to the music that keeps you captive when Charles Bradley is on stage. Each note and gruff inflection is an expression of his tumultuous personal path, and it has the world-over sitting up and taking notice, including the likes of SXSW and Rolling Stone.
Bradley is a classic showman. He sells every syllable, dropping to his knees, outstretching his arms, shaking his hips. And that voice, both pleading and plaintive, anguished and extraordinary. – Los Angeles Times, SXSW review
Bradley returns to New Zealand in 2015 as part of the celebration of the release of his second album Victim of Love: an offering of gratitude to his fans and supporters,packed with joy and a broader musical scope, including experiments with psychedelic soul The Temptations explored in the early '70's.
