Los Angeles, CA (Top40 Charts / Imagine1) Two music icons, Mandrill and the Lowrider Band will combine forces on the night of August 4, 2012 at the historic John Anson Ford Amphitheatre in Hollywood for a soulful and scintillating journey into the world of global Funk, Rock, Latin, R&B and Jazz Fusion.
"We are excited about this opportunity to share the stage again with our brothers from the Lowrider Band," said Mandrill co-founder Ric (Doc) Wilson. "We have a lot of love for the members of the Lowrider Band and that's why we're calling this the Brotherhood Reunion Concert."Wilson further stated, "This is going to be a treat for both bands, reminiscent of back in the day when the members of Mandrill and Lowrider together routinely sold out arenas in the US. There is no question that the audience of devoted fans will be fully nourished on the evening of August 4th."
The Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles (ICYOLA), a showcase of some of the city's most gifted young classical musicians, will guest star with Mandrill on several songs in keeping with Mandrill's on-going effort to cultivate young talent.
ICYOLA is conducted by Charles Dickerson.(www.icyola.org)
Mandrill, featuring the Wilson Brothers - Lou, Ric (Doc),
Carlos and Wolf, is the definitive creator of global/funk/fusion and has thrilled audiences the world over for more than three decades.
Seventeen albums later, they are one of the most sampled bands in the industry. Recently, they performed to sold-out crowds in Times
Square and at the TanJazz Festival in Tangier, Morocco.From Madison
Square Garden to Carnegie Hall to the Montreux Jazz Festival, Mandrill has shared the stage with legends such as Miles Davis, Duke Ellington,
George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic, Tito Puente, Earth Wind & Fire, The Eagles,
James Brown,
Deep Purple and
David Bowie."Mandrill's music has shaped Rock & Roll history," wrote Kenneth Mallory of The Washington Afro-American).(www.mandrillmusic.com).
Southern California's own dynamic Lowrider Band - led by multi-platinum, Grammy-winning singer/songwriters
Howard Scott, Harold Brown, Lee Oskar and B.B. Dickerson-- is best known as the prolific team that has dished up many of radio's greatest tunes: "The Cisco Kid," "Why Can't We Be Friends," "Spill the Wine," "Slipping into Darkness" and "The World is a Ghetto," just to name a few of the mega-hits from the band's exhaustive discography. (www.lowriderband.com)
Tickets prices start at $30, $24 for full-time students with ID and $12 for children 12 and under. Tickets are available at www.FordTheatres.orgor 323 461-3673 (for non-visual media 323 GO 1-FORD). For groups of 8 or more, please call 323 769-2147
