Get your tickets now for Chris Dave and the Drumhedz in New Orleans on Wednesday, September 12. Chris Dave has been around the world and back playing for and recording with some of music’s most established and iconic artists including: Adele, Maxwell, D’Angelo, Beyoncé, Kenny Garrett, Terrence Blanchard, Wynton Marsalis, Pat Metheny, Donald Brown, MF Doom, Bilal, Lupe Fiasco, Me’shell N’Degeocello, Lalah Hathaway, Ledisi, Sonny Rollins, the Robert Glasper Trio/Experiment, Pharoah Monche, TLC, Toni Braxton, Kevin Mahogany, Kim Burrell, Mos Def, Erykah Badu, Common, Talib Kweli, Jill Scott, A Tribe Called Quest, Mint Condition (Janet Jackson World Tour), Michelle Williams, Dianne Reeves, Sa Ra, Geri Allen, Yolanda Adams, Soulful Symphony, Reginald Veal and more. You already know the Drumhedz. You just don't know that you know the Drumhedz. They've beenplaying on your favorite albums for years, setting the tone or keeping time at the best shows you've everseen, making the young stars sound like legends and the legends sound like gods, quietly stackingGrammys without ever delivering an acceptance speech, and moving onto the next gig with the simplesatisfaction of a job well done. They're the session players and the road warriors, or, "Cats that werelooked over, but they're bad," in the words of the Drumhedz bandleader Chris Dave, who's drummedfor everyone from Adele to Bieber and Dolly to D'Angelo. "They all have stories like mine." Sure enough,the group's self-titled debut LP showcases a family of musicians whose credits coil like ivy around nearlyevery pillar of modern sound, getting together to do things to music they couldn't on anyone else'sproject.
Wednesday, Sep 12, 2018 8 PM
Chris Dave and The Drumhedz
Cafe Istanbul
Getting there
2372 St. Claude Avenue, New Orleans, LA
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