New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Timbre Rock & Roots Official Website) OCBC
Titanium Presents Timbre Rock &
Roots is back for the third year running on Friday and Saturday, 30 & 31 March 2012 at the
Marina Promenade located on the Singapore Grand Prix F1 tracks behind the Singapore Flyer.
Timbre Rock &
Roots has carved out a niche for presenting quality artists appealing to a more mature audience. Along the way, the festival also picks up emerging acts that have proven to be "dark horses" waiting to be discovered on site.
"Last year's line up was much more diverse with folk legend
Bob Dylan to mainstream commercial artists the likes of
John Legend and Imogen Heap. This year, it was a deliberate effort to programme acts that will get the crowds grooving and dancing from the start to the end." says Mr.
Peter Noble, Co-Festival Director.
Indeed, this first wave of a two-part artist announcements already sees legendary soul & funk superband Earth, Wind & Fire, the greatest rocksteady two-tone ska band of all times The Specials, multiple Grammy award winner Keb Mo and the return of the explosive Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue and music legend
Buddy Guy.
Friday, 30 March 2012
When The Specials kicked off the first night of their sold out 30th anniversary tour in April 2009, nobody could have realised just how incredible these live shows would be, and the utterly amazing reaction of fans around the world. The audiences were packed with music lovers who had waited since 1981 to revisit this stunning band alongside The Specials 'virgins' who had never had the chance to see them live. When the curtains dropped and Terry Hall, Lynval Golding, Neville Staple, Roddy Byers, Horace Panter and John Bradbury exploded on stage to Do The Dog. Dancehalls across
Europe erupted with young and old stomping as if their lives depended on it. Likewise at Timbre Rock & Roots, The Specials is going to put that same energy in your feet. Are you ready for greatest Two-Tone,
Black & White Unite rocksteady dancehall band of all times?
Blues fans will not want to miss out on Friday night's line up with not one but two Grammy-award winning blues musicians with singer/songwriter/guitarist Keb Mo and his rich, distinctive, smoky voice which spins emotive and passionate stories, and music legend
Buddy Guy, whose fans include music greats in their own right such as Eric Clapton,
Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan and many more who were deeply influenced by the man himself. Get ready for two very distinctive blues performances -Keb Mo's, whose music has long been regarded as a living link to the seminal Delta blues and has taken the blues beyond its traditional audience, with his wide-ranging, appealing music and infectious performances; and
Buddy Guy, who for 50 years has blazed his trail of energetic blues and blues rock, releasing over 60 albums,' mingling the most deepest of blues with a creative, unpredictable and radical gumbo of the blues, rock, soul and free jazz that morph at every performance.
Saturday, 31 March 2012
Prepare to put on your boogie shoes and get ready for a real treat with
Earth, Wind & Fire (EWF) headlining the Saturday night at the festival. Soul-funk superstars and 6-time Grammy award winners, EWF took the world of music by storm with their infectious blend of rhythm and blues, rock, and soul - a sound destined to be imitated by many groups, but never successfully duplicated by any. Celebrating over 40 years of global successes, EWF features the sublime Philip Bailey on lead vocals alongside original members, Verdine White (bass) and Ralph Johnson backed by their amazing horn section and band. Hear them perform their hits: "
Shining Star", "That's The Way Of The World", "
Sing A Song", "
September", "
Boogie Wonderland", "After The Love Has Gone" and many more. This will be one show to have you dancing from start to finish under the stars.
Without a doubt, the overnight sensation of last year, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue are back by popular demand. Blowing everyone's mind away with their brand of "supafunkrock" performance last year and earning rave reviews from almost every major newspapers post-festival, Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews has since been picked by many in the music industry as the next big thing. A superstar in the making and definitely not to be missed, especially with material from his outstanding new album "For True".
