Bumbershoot 2010, Day One….
First stop for the day was the KEXP in-studio session with The Budos Band, playing a number of tracks from their new Budos Band III album. The band is self-described as Afro-soul, and pretty much every song the band plays makes you feel like you’re Indiana Jones running from the enormous rolling boulder in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Seriously. If that’s not enough to get you to take a listen then nothing else I say could do the trick. Thanks to KEXP’s website, you can hear the entire session at http://kexp.org/streamarchive/streamarchive.asp. Enter “Saturday, September 4th” for the date, and “2:29 PM” for the time, and you can stream the entire 30-minute performance in a number of formats.
Next we headed over to catch Wheedle’s Groove, a collection of Seattle funk and soul musicians from the 60′s and 70′s who got together in 2004. They were welcomed onto the stage by Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn, who proclaimed September 4th, 2010 as “Wheedle’s Groove Day” in the city of Seattle. They had about 20+ different musicians on the stage over the course of their set and played songs from a huge range of Seattle artists, and even threw in a soulful cover of “Hey Jude” for a crowd singalong. READ MORE
