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DEBO BAND - returns to The Lizard Lounge! Alternating three week residency

Thursday 4/24 -
ALTERNATING WEEK RESIDENCY with Sub Pop Recording artist
DEBO BAND
$15 advance / $15 at the door
8:30 doors / 9:30 show
www.deboband.com

Tickets here for 4/24 only

"If George Clinton had come from Ethiopia instead of outer space, the result might have been what Debo Band gives you." Boston Globe

Debo Band's Sub Pop debut is on NPR's 50 Favorite Albums of 2012 "This is one of the best finds of the year, bar none. The Boston-based Debo Band takes traditional Ethiopian sounds and scales to a new place with sousaphone, accordion, violin and electric guitar. a party where funk, soul and free jazz swirl together with the heady, sultry melodies and harmonies of Addis Ababa.

Debo Band takes over the Lizard Lounge for three alternating Thursdays!

Debo Band is a 11-member group led by Ethiopian-American saxophonist Danny Mekonnen and fronted by charismatic vocalist Bruck Tesfaye. Since their inception in 2006, the band has won raves for their groundbreaking take on Ethiopian pop music (think Ethiopiques), which incorporates traditional scales and vocal styles, alongside American soul and funk rhythms, and instrumentation reminiscent of Eastern European brass bands. Debo have toured Ethiopia twice, appearing at both the Ethiopian Music Festival in Addis Ababa and Sauti Za Busara in Zanzibar, the largest music festival in East Africa. In North America, they've shared stages with Gogol Bordello, Amadou & Mariam, Antibalas, The Family Stone, and Ethiopian great Tilahun Gessesse. Recent and upcoming performances include the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, Bumbershoot, Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, The Kennedy Center, Montreal Jazz Festival, New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, South by Southwest, globalFEST 2012, Joe's Pub, International Festival of Arts & Ideas, and Montana Folk Festival. Their self-titled debut for Sub Pop / Next Ambiance was produced by Thomas "Tommy T" Gobena of Gogol Bordello and features album art by critically-renowned painter Julie Mehretu. It was recorded at Machines with Magnets (Battles, Deer Tick) and mastered by Grammy-nominated engineer Joe LaPorta at The Lodge.