Date(s): 19th October 2008
Venue: Shakespeare Inn
A not to be missed double bill at Sheffield's Shakespeare Inn, Gibraltar Street
Cheap at Twice the Price !! Tel. 0114 2799655 Read on for more details.
Curtis Eller is New York City's angriest yodelling banjo player. He sings about pigeon racing, performing elephants and Jesus, all of which he has seen with his own eyes. He started his show-business career at the age of seven as a juggler and acrobat in the Hiller Olde Tyme Circus in Detroit, but has since turned to the banjo because that's where the money is. His biggest musical influences are Buster Keaton, Elvis Presley and Abraham Lincoln.
Mr. Eller has appeared at funerals, horse races, burlesque shows and vaudeville revues. Haunted by the ghosts of silent film and wearing a dead man’s clothes he has staggered his way into the hearts of audiences from Los Angeles to Amsterdam. On his autumn tour of England he will be performing songs from his previous albums, “Banjo Music For Funerals”, and “Taking Up Serpents Again” alongside material from his eagerly awaited and wonderfully received new release, “Wirewalkers and Assassins”. Sporadic yodelling and some strong language can be expected.
Moussu T e lei Jovents consists of the founder of Massilia Sound System together with its guitarist and a famous Brazilian percussionist. The group takes its inspiration from Marseille in the thirties, a veritable musical melting pot, where Provençal songs could be heard alongside local operettas by Vincent Scotto or the black music bursting onto the scene at the time (i.e. blues and jazz, with music from the West Indies and Brazil too). This provides the background for the group's new, up-to-the minute songs, sea and harbours shanties that reek of the briny air, shipyard cranes and rocky inlets. A new repertoire to match the coastline of this part of the world, from Marseille or La Ciotat, a true blend of old and new, local and universal, full of nostalgia and foot-tapping rhythms !
Tickets for this show are only available to Four Rivers Productions mailing list members until 8th September. To join the mailing list send a blank e-mail to andy.whitehouse3@btinternet.com with the word "Join" in the subject box. From the 8th September tickets will be available from www.wegottickets.com, Jack's Records, or the venue.
Curtis Eller Website
Moussou T et Lei Jovents Website
Photo credits: Tim McGuire for Curtis Eller
Ian Anderson for Moussu T et Lei Jovents
How Much?: £ 10
Telephone: Tel. 0114 2799655
