Hey guess what! STILL RAINING! We're starting to think the higher authority was trying to tell us something, like, ditch now while you still can, go home! But we were strong! We held our grounds, and pulled through it all thick and thin, damn it! Billy Dean's words rang through my mind, he always liked to say, with bit of stubborn Aussie lilt to it, "It's just a bit of weather!" Well, it's more true here and now than ever, and I tried to bear that in mind and not gave in to it for wanting to hide in the hotel and sleep.
Off into Boston we went, took the cable car and thought we should go see the Fine Arts Museum. Halfway on route we changed our minds and decided to go into town and see Boston Commons, and the shopping areas. Still cold, but the park was very nice and pretty, with ducks and swans swimming along.
And here was the plaque commemorates the first all black volunteer soldiers who fought in the civil war, the movie Glory with Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, and Morgan Freeman, was based upon. Thank goodness for pop culture, otherwise we'd never learn anything about history! :P
Back to hotel and took a little nap and off we went to the concert.
Opening band was led by a Nigerian American woman, a poet, educator, performer Iyeoka Ivie Okoawo, who apparently had lived in Hawaii. She kept making references to Hawaii. She's got an interesting low key male backup vocal also did some rapping. They were quite good.
Femi's band came on one by one... bass, drums, guitar, keys, percussion, and a 5 piece horn line: 2 trumpets, trombone, tenor sax, and baritone. Plus 3 scantily clad butt shaking, booty gyrating dancing mamas! Ha!
Femi finally came on and brought out his own alto sax and trumpet, he also played some keys. What a great band. Full sound. We enjoyed the show very much, although I felt that he wasn't very "at ease" throughout the whole show. Could be because he was having trouble with sound, or bad sound check, or something else entirely, but one thing I know for sure, I wouldn't want to play any wrong notes/parts if I were in his band! Boy, those hard stares from him were quite scary! :P
I enjoyed the jazzy bits, also enjoyed his borrowing from the Soukous sound and mix with a little jungle into his sound. A newer kind of Afro beat than of his legendary father, whose charisma exuded on stage even when he was drunk high or displeased... a dynamo.
He did one long set, plus a few songs for encores. We met 2 other guys at the show who stood next to us. One of them was called Jeff Remz, who was the editor and publisher for Country Standard Time, a website for country, bluegrass and Americana. Very nice guys who have seen a lot of music and a lot of knowledge.
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