Left Coast Live 2011 will be happening in full effect on Saturday, October 8th.
Among the many acts hittin the stage @ Left Coast Live...
one of them will be Panama-Oakland duo...
L O S R A K A S
& another will be Cuban - Afro Beat-Electronic- member of Antibalas...
C H I C O M A N N
Live on stage @ Left Coast Live 2011
On the LIGHTSON STREET STAGE
Set-Time: 9:00pm - 11:30
TICKETS
Festival passes are on sale now and can be purchased online at
www.leftcoastlive.com. Passes will also be available for purchase at the festival gate.
o Online Advance Tickets: $15
o At Gate: $20
HOURS
Festival opens at 3 p.m. until midnight.
ABOUT -
www.leftcoastlive.com
Left Coast Live (LCL) is a music experience that showcases more than 25 national, regional and local live acts playing on three outdoor stages and partner venues in downtown San Jose October 8, 2011. In its 3rd year, Left Coast Live ignites the Bay Area music community, establishing Silicon Valley as a regional destination for live music. Left Coast Live is open to all ages.
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About Los Rakas -
http://losrakas.com/
Los Rakas represent pan-American flows. Two cousins who grew up in Panama before spending their teens in Oakland, California, Raka Dun and Raka Rich put a distinctive "Panabay" twist on hip-hop and reggae, bridging the streetwise sounds of the places they've called home. Drawing on Panamanian plena's faithful approach to reggae classics and the Bay Area's independent and idiosyncratic hip-hop scene, Los Rakas merge familiar dancehall melodies with a lyricism all their own.
There are groups that come along and change the way we listen, appreciate and connect to music. Hailing from Panama but now residing in California, Los Rakas blends Hip-Hop, Plena, Reggae and Dancehall music with Spanish and English lyricism creating songs that leave your head noddin' and body rockin.' Los Rakas (DunDun and Rico AKA Filthy Rich) tag team the mic with a tenacity reminiscent of old school veterans in the game and the passion of the newer artists on the scene.
2010 was a flagship year for the group, winning the Latin Alternative Music Conference's (LAMC) Jack Daniel's 'Discovery Artist' prize in New York City (an award that goes to the most promising group at the conference and the first time awarded to an urban group), with endorsements from Gibson Guitar and SHURE; culminating with their breakout performance at The Bowery Ballroom with a 6 piece band. The duo played alongside Manu Chao, Cypress Hill and Erykah Badu at the unprecedented, Smoke Out Festival and opened the 'How The Grouch Stole Christmas' tour in December 2010 for 18 sold-out shows with Living Legend's The Grouch and Rhymesayer's Brother Ali.
Tastemakers like the FADER, XLR8R Magazine, Okayplayer to more traditional outlets like The New York Times & National Geographic have hailed the group. Their hit summer single of 2010, 'Abrazame' ft Favi (Uproot Andy Hold Yuh) {a latin take on the Gyptian 'Hold Yuh' smash} is currently in rotation at 106 KMEL (San Francisco) and La
Mega 97.9 (New York) and spreading fast. The future is bright for this young duo.
RAKA RICH
Born in Northern California, Raka Rich began his international journey early on in life, immediately moving to Panama City, where he lived until he was 12. From childhood, he was drawn to music and seduced by the variations between sound and rhythm. Soon, his own lyrics spawned, sewing the seeds of an emerging new sound.
RAKA DUN
One of ten children raised in the barrio of Nuevo Veranillo, Panama, Raka Dun (pronounced Doon) of Los Rakas, has his sights firmly set on international stardom. More than just a dream, Panama understands the kind of commitment and hard work it takes to succeed. Raka Dun began entertaining at the age of 10, touring his home country with a traditional folkloric dance group
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Chico Mann -
http://chicomann.com/
The sounds of Africa have taken multi-instrumentalist Chico Mann—aka Marcos García—all over the world. So itʼs fitting that after spending years learning to speak Afrobeat, albeit with a Cuban accent, Chico Mann has employed several dialects to make a larger musical statement, creating a hybrid of Afro-Cuban rhythms, Afrobeat and classic freestyle that has emerged to be one of the new, vibrant musical styles of today.
Born in New York City to Cuban parents—his mother a pianist and disc jockey, his father a record label head and producer of merengue records—a young Chico started early, diving headlong into the spheres of guitar, piano, and break dancing; the works of Willie Colón, Fela Kuti, Lisa Lisa, and Afrika Bambaataa led the way. His father told him to steer clear of the business, but did he really have a choice?
Fast forward to the early 2000s. When he wasnʼt burning up stages worldwide with the mighty Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra, Chico was home cooking up a more personal sound, featuring himself on all the instruments (guitar, bass, keyboards, programming) and vocals (in Spanish!). A debut album Manifest Tone, Vol. 1 emerged in 2007 and now 2010, he is ready to drop another groundbreaking statement - Analog Drift, his first for Wax Poetics Records. Here Chico Mann introduces the rhythms of Afrobeat to the music of Cuba, the Latin freestyle flavors of 1980s New York and Miami, and the synth-heavy electro beats of dance floors across the globe.
This is music is good for your mind and behind. And itʼs always real. The total package. Chico says it best himself: “If you want it you can have it / If you want it, you can take it, you can grab it.”
So go out and get what you want, and let Chico Mann provide the soundtrack.
Be sure to cop your tickets
