THIS AIN'T NEW WORLD AFRICAN - BUT I LOVE THIS MONKEY FUNKER ! ! IT'S THE RUBBERBANDITS WITH THEIR HUGE HIT "HORSE OUTSIDE" ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

I HAVE TWO WONDERFULLY BEAUTIFUL NIECES NAMED AMANDA WHO ARE ALWAYS TURNING ME ONTO FUNKY MUSIC.
WELL, AMANDA McR. SENT ME THIS VIDEO AND I INSTANTLY FELL IN MAD EQUINE LOVE WITH THE FUNKY FUNNY, FUNNY, DIRTY HOSTILITY OF THE IRISH MANIACS WHO CALL THEMSELVES THE RUBBERBANDITS & THEIR GREAT RECORD "HORSE OUTSIDE".

"fcuk your honda civic - i've a horse outside - fcuk your subaru - i've a horse outside - and fcuk your mitsubishi - i've a horse outside - giddyup baby ! !"

DJZigZag

BILLY ! BILLY ! ! BILLY PRESTON JAM ON SON ! ! WHAT A STAR ! HERE HE IS ON SOUL TRAIN DOIN' "NOTHIN' FROM NOTHIN'" - MEMORIES OF A HERO ! ! !

WAGRadio NEW WORLD AFRICAN MUSIC HERO

BILLY PRESTON BILLY PRESTON

CALVIN RICHARDSON SINGS "YOU'RE SO AMAZING" on the nationally syndicated U.S. TOM JOYNER TV progam - LOOKIN' LIKE A YOUNG BOBBY WOMACK ! !

ARGUABLY THE NUMBER ONE SOUL SINGER AROUND TODAY.
THE RICHARDSON LAD KNOWN AS CALVIN HAS HAD SO MANY HITS THAT WE'VE STOPPED COUNTING.
HERE'S HIS 2nd TO LATEST - "YOU'RE SO AMAZING" - SUNG LIVE ! !

ON THE SOON-TO-BE-PODCASTED

GROOVIN' BLUE 11 - 02

WE ARE GONNA GET TO HEAR THE BROTHER'S LATEST CHOON

"AMERICA'S MOST WANTED"

WHICH IS WHAT OUR CALVIN IS ! !

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*THE LAST SHOW in the series EAST END SOUTHERN MUSIC TOUR (IS FUN) 2010 ! ! - - IS POSTED * * WE ARE SAD BUT SHOW NO. EIGHT IS ON YO' PLATE ! ! ! !

HARD TO BELIEVE THE LAST OF THE EAST END SOUTHERN MUSIC TOUR (IS FUN) 2010 SHOWS IS PODCASTED ! !

HARD TO BELIEVE THAT THERE ARE EIGHT SHOWS IN THE SERIES ! ! ! . . .

CUZ WHEN SWEET DADDY FONK AND ZIGZAG STARTED PUTTING THEM TOGETHER THEY WERE THINKIN' THEY'D BE LUCKY TO GET FOUR SHOWS OUTTA THE TAPED ON-THE-ROAD MATERIAL THEY HAD.

BUT HERE IT IS - THE END OF FEBRUARY, 2011 AND THE OCTOBER 2010 TRIP TO THE LAND OF NEW WORLD AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC'S BIRTH - THE SOUTHERN STATES - HAS GIVEN US, NOT ONLY SOME WONDERFUL TRAVELLIN'-DOWN-THE-ROAD MEMORIES BUT REFRESHED SOME GREAT MUSICAL THRILLS FROM THE BOYZ EAST END YOUTH AS WELL ! ! !

DJZigZag IS ALREADY TALKIN' TO SWEET D. F. WONG ABOUT THEIR POSSIBLE 2nd TRIP (maybe in October of this year * 2011 * ) . . . to ARKANSAS, SOUTH CAROLINA, NORTH CAROLINA, LOUISIANA, TEXAS, MISSOURI, OKLAHOMA and . . . . who knows where else the SOUL BIRD FLIES ! ! ! !

We SHALL see . . .

PLUS . . . if ya wanna read a write-up 'bout EAST END BLUES AND ALL THAT JAZZ from VanCity's GEORGIA STRAIGHT newspaper then "click" on the subject title of this latest post and you will be taken there.

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BLACK HISTORY MONTH CELEBRATION SERVES UP A SOULFUL SPOONFUL OF EAST END HISTORY AND ALL THAT JAZZ ! ! !

Black History Month celebration serves up East End history and all that jazz

* Simply click on the sentence above to read the recent article by Cheryl Rossi in the Vancouver, B.C. - Courier newspaper about the upcoming musical performance at the Firehall Arts Centre, 280 East Cordova.

The East End Blues and All That Jazz show runs

Friday the 18th and Saturday the 19th at 8:00 pm

and Sunday the 20th at 2:00 pm.

Phone 604 689 0926 for tickets !

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! ! ! OH MY HOLLY HEY SEUS ! ! ! MS. ESPERANZA SPALDING . . . WHAT CAN YA SAY - SOME GOT IT AND THEN SOME GOT IT IN GRETZKY-LIKE DIMENSIONS ! !

Why was she just voted the best new artist of the year on the GRAMMY AWARDS ! ? ?

Whew !
TALENT and . . . . . STAR QUALITY ! ! !

***ALSO*** TO ACCESS A GREAT INTERVIEW WITH Ms. SPALDING

simply click on this post's subject heading

for her "ONE ON ONE" informative interview with RIZ KHAN.

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FEB. 18-20, 2011 at the FIREHALL ARTS CENTRE (280 E. Cordova St.) - "EAST END BLUES and ALL THAT JAZZ" starring THELMA AND CHIC GIBSON

Ya got ta' go and hear two of our finest gospel and blues singers in EAST END BLUES and ALL THAT JAZZ at the FIREHALL ARTS CENTRE from FEBRUARY 18th to the 20th ! !

This BLACK HISTORY MONTH CELEBRATION OF THE LIFE AND TIMES of EAST VANCOUVER'S HISTORIC BLACK NEIGHBOURHOOD (where SWEET DADDY FONK grew up ! !) is a tribute to the contributions that Black Canadians have made, and continue to make, to the cultural and social fabric of our city.

We are gonna take a musical tour walkin' down memory lane to the Fountain Chapel - heart and soul of the historic community. We will jump, jive and hurt ourselves at Ernie King's Harlem Nocturne. We will wave at Mrs. Wong (Sweet Daddy's moms) just before we cross the alley from his house and drop in on Vie's Chicken and Steak House and the Country Club. That's all centred at Hogan's Alley - bulldozed when they built the Georgia Viaduct in the early '70's.

Sweet Daddy and I always looked longingly (with Mr. Wong looking a little longer) at the beautiful sister of our pal Sy Risby. Well, that sister - Ms. Thelma Gibson - along with brother Chic danced and sang at the Gibson family's the Country Club along with their older brother Len. As a matter of fact, there wasn't a club in Van-City's East End that didn't know the name and herald the talent of the three Gibson siblings be it the Smilin' Buddha, the Mandarin Gardens, the legendary Harlem Nocturne etc, etc.

Along with the Gibsons, "East End Blues and All That Jazz" has the aforementioned dynamic talent of one Ms. CANDUS CHURCHILL (a longtime listener to WAGRadio, we have to add) plus equally talented TOM PICKETT. Rounding out the musical peeps are pianist/musical director BILL COSTLIN & bass player TIMOTHY STACEY.

THIS IS A SOULFUL EVENING OF GOSPEL, BLUES, JAZZ AND NEW WORLD AFRICAN MUSICAL VANCOUVER MEMORIES that was created by the late great DENIS SIMPSON and Vancouver Moving Theatre's SAVANNAH WALLING, assisted by brother LEONARD GIBSON with contributions by CHIC and THELMA GIBSON.

Y'all should be at the FIREHALL ARTS CENTRE AT 8:00 P.M. on one of the TWO NIGHTS

FEBRUARY 18th & 19th

OR the SUNDAY AFTERNOON MATINEE at 2:00pm ! ! !

Tickets: $20.00 / $15.00 for students and seniors

Box Office: 604.689.0926

For more information just click on the subject heading at the top of this post and you will be taken to the Vancouver Moving Theatre website.

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