Moussu T e lei Jovents and Curtis Eller
19th October 2008
Shakespeare Hotel
More great live music at The Shakespeare with a double headlined show featuring Marseille's finest in the shape of Moussu T e lei Jovents, coupled with New York's angriest yodelling banjo player (and great Sheffield favourite) Curtis Eller.
Moussu T e lei Jovents consists of the founder of Massilia Sound System together with its guitarist and a famous Brazilian percussionist. As warming as a shot of Pernod, their music draws on the music of the heady days of the 1930's when Marseille was a melting pot of influences from the desert blues of Africa to the slinky rhythms returning with trade from the Carribean and Brazil. Irreverent and relaxed on stage the band draw the audience in with hypnotic tunes that simply reel you in like the best of JJ Cale but with a Mediterranean flavour. A must see.
Curtis Eller is without question New York's angriest yodelling banjo player. He sings about pigeon racing, performing elephants and Jesus, all of which he has seen with his own eyes. He started his show-business career at the age of seven as a juggler and acrobat in the Hiller Olde Tyme Circus in Detroit, but has since turned to the banjo because that's where the money is. His biggest musical influences are Buster Keaton, Elvis Presley and Abraham Lincoln.
Pricing
Admission / Standard Adult Prices from
£10.00
Tickets
Tickets available from:
Shakespeare Hotel
146-148 Gibraltar Street
West Bar
Sheffield
S3 8UB
Phone: 0114 272 9048
Jack's Records
Unit 1 Aberdeen Court
95-97 Division Street
Sheffield
S1 4GE
Phone: 0114 276 7093
