December 16th, 2011 - The Boom Booms
w/ Behind Sapphire
$10 - Buy tickets for this event here!
$15 Advance
Doors at 8pm, show at 9pm
19+
The Boom Booms are a six-piece Latin-soul-funk-rock-reggae band, forged from friendships born on the school yards, soccer fields, cafe patios and eventually bars of East Vancouver. They recently played at Pop Okanagan and just won $75,000 in the PEAK Performance Project.
They make music that makes people want to dance — or “Get up and love somebody,” as lead singer and guitarist Aaron Nazrul calls it. Whether breaking into song and dance on the streets of Paris, storming stages with Congolese musicians in Brussels, playing to thousands at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival or serenading abuelitas in South America, the charming sextet is able to reach across cultural barriers and connect with people of all stripes, on levels equally rhythmic and emotional.
The video for their 2007 feel-good party anthem “When the Night” made it to #6 on the Much More Music countdown in 2008, and was optioned for a recent episode of 90210. “Delivered”, a surreal banjo ballad that conjures up images of a jungle river baptism, earned them the award for Best Roots Song at the Just Plain Folks Music Awards, which are judged by the world’s largest independent music organization.
The talented lineup is: Aaron Ross on vocals and latin-friendly nylon guitar, Geordie Hart on stand-up, sit-down and strap-on bass, Sean Ross on vocals + ukulele/cavacino, Tom Van Deursen on black, sexy electric guitar, Theo Vincent on ragin’ percussion + drumkit, and Richard Brinkman on drums that he keeps deep in his pocket.
Founding members Aaron Ross and Geordie Hart are lifelong friends who formed their first band in fifth grade. They discovered their mutual passion for Latin music and culture during a musical odyssey they embarked upon through Cuba and Mexico as 20-year-olds — so much so that many of Ross’ viscerally poetic lyrics are written and sung in Spanish. Recently, African influences have begun to make their way into the Boom Booms’ groovy stew.
The group’s magnanimous influences include the Buena Vista Social Club, Gregory Isaacs, The Budos Band, Manu Chao, Fat Freddy’s Drop, Damian Marley, Otis Redding, Sam Cook, Marvin Gaye, Ray LaMontagne, Tabu ley Rochereau and Paul Simon.
It is fitting that just seconds into Behind Sapphire’s eponymous record, guitarist Matthew Mazankowski utters that most sacred of musical tropes: “I’m free to make my noise,” he sings in the harmonized verse that leads off the album’s rootsy opening track, “The Call of the Wild.” As is the case with just about anyone that has employed the singer’s greatest declaration, Behind Sapphire is unabashed in its embrace of musical freedom – be it merrymaking or noise-making, both.
After years of shuffling, tangling and realigning, the Vancouver-born band – Grant Cassell (vocals), Matthew Mazankowski (guitar), Steven Ward (drums), Lindsay Sjoberg (guitar) and Brayden Pichor (bass) – have formed a creative cauldron from which has emerged the release of their debut album in 2010, a spot in the Peak Performance Project’s Top 20 the same year, two cross-Canada tours including stops at festivals all over the country, and the Space Cadets – the band’s costumed street team which orbits their shows, occasionally touching down unannounced.
Recently, Behind Sapphire released a music video for “Oh My, What A Fine Day” featuring Twilight actress Jodelle Ferland before embarking on their “Oh My, What A Fine Tour” – a three month, cross-country adventure that brought the mythical world of their album to stage. Populated by beanstalks, tugboat towns, traffic jams, crazy critters, and yellow chalk fish, the album’s lyrical flights of fantasy capture the West Coast of the imagination – one half-lived and half-dreamed.
Behind Sapphire takes this make-believe to stage with a fantastically woven live show that spills over with quirky energy and intense celebration. The band seems nothing short of a feather, a megaphone, space-men, a pair of gumboots, or an entire orchestra in their ambition to captivate.
It is clear that Behind Sapphire is willing to reach deep into their own pockets of imagination to capture yours. They truly believe they are “free to make their noise” and invite the world to come make it with them.
$10 - Buy tickets for this event here!
$15 Advance
Doors at 8pm, show at 9pm
19+
The Boom Booms are a six-piece Latin-soul-funk-rock-reggae band, forged from friendships born on the school yards, soccer fields, cafe patios and eventually bars of East Vancouver. They recently played at Pop Okanagan and just won $75,000 in the PEAK Performance Project.
They make music that makes people want to dance — or “Get up and love somebody,” as lead singer and guitarist Aaron Nazrul calls it. Whether breaking into song and dance on the streets of Paris, storming stages with Congolese musicians in Brussels, playing to thousands at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival or serenading abuelitas in South America, the charming sextet is able to reach across cultural barriers and connect with people of all stripes, on levels equally rhythmic and emotional.
The video for their 2007 feel-good party anthem “When the Night” made it to #6 on the Much More Music countdown in 2008, and was optioned for a recent episode of 90210. “Delivered”, a surreal banjo ballad that conjures up images of a jungle river baptism, earned them the award for Best Roots Song at the Just Plain Folks Music Awards, which are judged by the world’s largest independent music organization.
The talented lineup is: Aaron Ross on vocals and latin-friendly nylon guitar, Geordie Hart on stand-up, sit-down and strap-on bass, Sean Ross on vocals + ukulele/cavacino, Tom Van Deursen on black, sexy electric guitar, Theo Vincent on ragin’ percussion + drumkit, and Richard Brinkman on drums that he keeps deep in his pocket.
Founding members Aaron Ross and Geordie Hart are lifelong friends who formed their first band in fifth grade. They discovered their mutual passion for Latin music and culture during a musical odyssey they embarked upon through Cuba and Mexico as 20-year-olds — so much so that many of Ross’ viscerally poetic lyrics are written and sung in Spanish. Recently, African influences have begun to make their way into the Boom Booms’ groovy stew.
The group’s magnanimous influences include the Buena Vista Social Club, Gregory Isaacs, The Budos Band, Manu Chao, Fat Freddy’s Drop, Damian Marley, Otis Redding, Sam Cook, Marvin Gaye, Ray LaMontagne, Tabu ley Rochereau and Paul Simon.
It is fitting that just seconds into Behind Sapphire’s eponymous record, guitarist Matthew Mazankowski utters that most sacred of musical tropes: “I’m free to make my noise,” he sings in the harmonized verse that leads off the album’s rootsy opening track, “The Call of the Wild.” As is the case with just about anyone that has employed the singer’s greatest declaration, Behind Sapphire is unabashed in its embrace of musical freedom – be it merrymaking or noise-making, both.
After years of shuffling, tangling and realigning, the Vancouver-born band – Grant Cassell (vocals), Matthew Mazankowski (guitar), Steven Ward (drums), Lindsay Sjoberg (guitar) and Brayden Pichor (bass) – have formed a creative cauldron from which has emerged the release of their debut album in 2010, a spot in the Peak Performance Project’s Top 20 the same year, two cross-Canada tours including stops at festivals all over the country, and the Space Cadets – the band’s costumed street team which orbits their shows, occasionally touching down unannounced.
Recently, Behind Sapphire released a music video for “Oh My, What A Fine Day” featuring Twilight actress Jodelle Ferland before embarking on their “Oh My, What A Fine Tour” – a three month, cross-country adventure that brought the mythical world of their album to stage. Populated by beanstalks, tugboat towns, traffic jams, crazy critters, and yellow chalk fish, the album’s lyrical flights of fantasy capture the West Coast of the imagination – one half-lived and half-dreamed.
Behind Sapphire takes this make-believe to stage with a fantastically woven live show that spills over with quirky energy and intense celebration. The band seems nothing short of a feather, a megaphone, space-men, a pair of gumboots, or an entire orchestra in their ambition to captivate.
It is clear that Behind Sapphire is willing to reach deep into their own pockets of imagination to capture yours. They truly believe they are “free to make their noise” and invite the world to come make it with them.
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