Rani Arbo and daisy mayhem last January in Walker Hall.
Yee-Fun Yin
Rani Arbo is back!
01/05/2010
TAFT SCHOOL'S
MUSIC FOR A WHILE
PRESENTS
Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem
FRIDAY, JANUARY 8
7:00PM
WALKER HALL
IF YOU COULDN'T ATTEND LAST YEAR, NOW IS YOUR CHANCE TO HEAR THIS GREAT BAND!
THIS ONE HOUR CONCERT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC -
NO TICKETS REQUIRED
SPECIAL BONUS
CHILDREN'S miniCONCERT AT 4:30PM IN WALKER HALL.
CHILDREN OF ALL AGES ARE INVITED TO ATTEND.
"If Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem offer to cook at your place, you better open up all the doors,
and borrow every table and chair you can because the whole town should come." That's the word from Folk Alley magazine, and it's been echoed at performance halls across the U.S. and Canada. On stage, this band exudes hospitality, good humor, intellect, spirit, and breathtaking musicianship — and it's a hard combination to refuse.
Musically, Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem serves up a jubilant and unabashed mix of traditional, original, and contemporary sounds. Arbo's beautiful, expressive alto is at the helm, with rich four-part harmonies, a 100% recycled drum set, fiddle, guitar, and bass. These artists draw their vintage American sounds and their incisive songwriting from the same deep well.
In one show you might hear a pre civil war song from the Georgia Sea Islands sung over a New Orleans style groove or an old Irish fiddle tune with new lyrics, capped with a solo on a South American box drum. A Leonard Cohen song with clawhammer banjo? An original Unitarian funk gospel song? You begin to get the idea. With influences from Doc Watson to Django Reinhardt, from Ghanaian drumming to the funky Meters, and from Fiddlin' John Carson to Bob Dylan, daisy mayhem celebrates America's rich musical past and brings it into the present. Their show fearlessly explores the nooks and crannies of the human condition; the Boston Globe called it "playful and profound."
Here are four musicians who pick up what's lying around — from tin cans, to old songs, to stories —and create something wonderful and new.
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