Kevin Welch - guitar, lead vocals
Jon Evans - bass, vocals
Alex Calatayud - percussion
Larry De La Cruz - percussion & sax
Scott Johnson - drums
Jacob Aginsky - keys & laptop
Influences
Brazilian greats, large and small. Roots music of the African diaspora. American jazz and everything in the nooks and crannies and in between.
Boca do Rio is musicá organica -- live music played live.
The music is inspired by the thousands of musicians and the music lovers that have gone before us and laid the rhythmic foundations of samba, baião, samba-reggae, the dances for the orishas, and all that gives homage to the beats. It is the African diaspora alive through rhythms and pulses – it is the commonality that binds humans to the air we breathe, the food from which we nourish, the water we imbibe, and the love through which we flourish.
Boca do Rio exists to share and celebrate music and everything that it brings to our lives through the cross-pollination of the Americas. It’s the water that flows from mountains to oceans, from inside to out. It’s the earth beneath our feet, the soil beneath the concrete, the minerals from the stars that grace each of our cells.
It's been so long since I've been to a show and heard your great sounds. Hope all is well with you guys. When is the next time you perform in San Francisco?
Hi boca do rio! SoundSafe loves you! Please make a local music profile page for yourself on soundsafe. org SoundSafe is a 501c3 non-profit working to preserve, strengthen, promote, and unite the Bay Area music community. Upload songs to our radio station, promote your shows, network, and take advantage of our educational resources for the music business. http://soundsafe. org/profiles/new See you there and Long Live Bay Area Music!
thanks for supporting The American Economy! you should come hear us play Beer Friday @ Devil's Canyon Brewery Friday, January 30th 6-8PM for a free, all ages show in Belmont :)
I think I may have the distinction of being Vivendo de Pao's first fan. Certainly among the first to hear what would later become a North Beach phenom! Thank you Kevin, for introducing me to the wonderful world of Brazilian sounds.
Oi bocas locas! Hope you guys can make it to the show!
Come join the celebration over the release of our new CD – Boteco!!
‘Boteco’ is an artful mixture of neo-futuristic traditional Brazilian rhythms with the right quantity of the best North American spices. It is funk and rock boiling and baking with samba, maracatu, frevo and baiao.
Put Pele and Mohammed Ali in a fictional mix machine. Now add Frank Zappa, Sergio Mendes, Tom Jobim and Roger Waters and fused in to one. What a mix eh? Bat Makumba is this fusion, multiplied by 2.
CD Release Parties: 10/31 Someday Lounge – Portland, OR 11/01 Cozmic Pizza – Eugene, OR 11/06 Moe’s Alley – Santa Cruz, CA 11/07 The Old Ironsides – Sacramento, CA 11/13 The Great American Music Hall – San Francisco, CA 11/21 Stage Door – Mount Shasta, CA 12/04 Harp Inn – Costa Mesa, CA 12/05 Santa Monica Bar & Grille – Santa Monica, CA ...more to come
Saludos desde Puerto Rico!!!!Truco y Zaperoko se siente contento de formar parte de sus amigos, próximamente saldrá al mercado nuestra tercera producción EN PLENA RUMBA...ya para Septiembre, esperamos que puedan disfrutar de la misma. ¡Que viva la Plena con Moña!
Hola a todos! Presenting.... [da, da DAH!!] our debut album... Gringolandia!
Please come celebrate with us and get your dance on at our album release festival on AUGUST 8 (08-08-08) at ASHKENAZ in Berkeley!!
It will feature performances by Last Legal Magic, Abdoulaye Diakate, MamaCoatl, and traditional West African and Colombian dance.
Album artist Tobias Greene (drawinginthedark. com) will be painting faces, and Nathan Hiatt will be painting on stage as we rock out... there's a rumor of bike-powered smoothies, too - boo-ya!
The festivities will kick off at 8:08pm with Drummm, a hands-on facilitated drummm workshop.
Ashkenaz is always ALL AGES, and wheelchair accessible.
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