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Soulsha - Next Stage Annual Gala

Next Stage Arts Project will host its annual Gala Benefit event, Dance Party, to benefit Next Stage programming, featuring the Afro-Celtic Funk band Soulsha. The party will include an auction, great refreshments and a beer and wine cash bar.

Soulsha is a party, a revolution, and an adventure through different traditions. It brings together some of Bostons top musicians in Scottish, West African and Funk music to creat a sound you wont find anywhere else on the planet Soulful call and response singing, masterful improvisation, traditional Sengalese and Scottish dancing and incredible energy make every Soulsha show and unforgettable live experience. Intricate rhythms, soaring bagpipe melodies, and New Orleans-infused horn lines come together seamlessly, and the joy of music rises above all the differences, reminding us that were all in this together.

The band formed through a series of serendipitous meetings in the thriving and intersecting multi-cultural melting pot of Boston. Many of the members are virtuosic and highly esteemed tradition-bearers in their styles. In Soulsha, they saw a chance to bridge divides. The music theyve created is a conversation between cultures that breaks music theyve created is a conversation between cultures that breaks down all boundaries, moving the audience to abandon their assumptions as they lose themselves on the dance floor. Soulsha will delight lovers of everything from jam bands to bluegrass. While it shares obvious roots with afro-Celt Sound Systems electronic fusion, the funk-inspired sound of Soulsha puts tradition and interchange center stage, bringing the party energy of Rebirth Brass Band and the cultural gravitas of masters like Malian Toumani Diabate. The sound is fun but deep, fresh but familiar, immigrant and yet deeply American. For several years, Soulsha has been developing their sound while bringing audiences to their feet at a string of northeastern US Festivals.

This is purely infectious stuff.its fresh, bold and exciting and defies you to listen without moving and grooving to the beat. Boston Irish Reporter

Dont miss the party everyone will be talking about!