About this Event
Get It Right the First Time in association with Hometown Bar-B-Que is thrilled to welcome Club d'Elf to the Industry City Bandshell presented by JuneShine Hard Kombucha and Two Robbers Hard Seltzer.
Club d'Elf is Will Bernard (John Medeski's Mad Skillet) : guitar, Aaron Johnston (Brazilian Girls / David Byrne) : drums; Matt Kilmer (Louie CK) : percussion; Mike Rivard : bass & sintir.
The venue is located in an open-air courtyard featuring a full concert sound stage. Fans can order Hometown BBQ. Additional food and drinks made at Industry City will be available for purchase. Concert is rain or shine.
How to get here:
Take the D, N, R lines to 36th street station in Brooklyn and walk west one block to Industry City. 2 stops from Manhattan.
More on Club d'Elf:
Club d'Elf has been helping audiences lose track of time for almost twenty five years with its mesmerizing synthesis of Moroccan traditional music and electronic, dubbed-out funk. Circling about bassist/composer Mike Rivard and drummer Dean Johnston, each Club d'Elf performance features a different line-up, drawn from a constellation of some of the most creative improvisers from the jazz, DJ, rock & world music scenes of Boston, NYC and beyond. The band's music draws from a wide spectrum of styles, including jazz, hip hop, electronica, avant garde, prog-rock and dub. Under the tutelage of member Brahim Fribgane (who hails from Casablanca) the band has absorbed Moroccan trance music, which is now an essential part of the mix. Diverse audiences are drawn to Fribgane’s mesmerizing oud stylings, and Rivard’s commanding playing of the Moroccan sintir. Trance forms the central core of the Club d’Elf aesthetic, weaving together the band’s various influences.
The band's new album, 'You Never Know', offers gnawa refracted through a prism of contemporary psychedelia—Morocco turned technicolor. The record unfurls upon kaleidoscopic clouds of spiced smoke, shifting from chopped dub-jazz through trance epics that reimagine Boston as a city of bazaars. Club d'Elf pay tribute to the music and musicians who have been primary influences, with half the album being covers of gnawa, Miles Davis, Joe Zawinul, Moroccan band Nass el-Ghiwane, and Frank Zappa. The other half consists of original music inspired by Rivard's personal journey into darkness following a near death experience in the remote jungle of the Peruvian Amazon.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Industry City Bandshell in Courtyard 1/2, 220 36th Street, Brooklyn, United States
USD 22.50