2008 Woodie Awards
'08 Performance Series opens at MSU
by Derek Wehrwein
Issue date: 1/24/08
Section: Music
The 2008 Performance Series opens at Minnesota State with two concerts over the next six days, including one from Scottie Miller, who returns to MSU after performing here in September.
The series kicks off tonight with the New Primitives, a Twin Cities-based group that plays rythm and blues, Ska, Reggae and World Dance music. Scottie Miller and the Inhibitors perform Tuesday. Both concerts are at 7:30 p.m. in the Halling Recital Hall at the Performing Arts Center. General admission is $15, while tickets for non-MSU students are $12 and $9 for MSU students with a MavCard.
The New Primitives employ a variety of instruments, including timbales, trap drums, bass guitars, saxophones and ewls. The band consists of Stanley Kipper, who once toured with artists such as Little Richard and Bo Diddley, and Chico Perez, Joel Arpin, Matthew Stevens, Tom Peterson, Brian Powers, Javier Trejo and D.J. Trichrome. The band, which was formed in 1999 and has won several Minnesota Music Awards for "best Reggae band," describes its music as "an amalgam of the communities and lives of its members."
A Minneapolis resident and blues pianist, Miller began playing the piano at age six and has toured both at home and abroad. His albums include "Day of Reckoning" (2004) and "Livin' Between the Black 'N White" (2006). He has been a finalist in the "Solo/Duo" category at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, Tenn.
Miller is joined by bassist John Iden and drummer Mark O'Day, who he's been performing with since 2002, and saxophone player Brian Simonds.
Tickets can be purchased online at www.mnsu.edu/music. For more information, call 507-389-5549.
Derek Wehrwein is the Reporter variety editor
The series kicks off tonight with the New Primitives, a Twin Cities-based group that plays rythm and blues, Ska, Reggae and World Dance music. Scottie Miller and the Inhibitors perform Tuesday. Both concerts are at 7:30 p.m. in the Halling Recital Hall at the Performing Arts Center. General admission is $15, while tickets for non-MSU students are $12 and $9 for MSU students with a MavCard.
The New Primitives employ a variety of instruments, including timbales, trap drums, bass guitars, saxophones and ewls. The band consists of Stanley Kipper, who once toured with artists such as Little Richard and Bo Diddley, and Chico Perez, Joel Arpin, Matthew Stevens, Tom Peterson, Brian Powers, Javier Trejo and D.J. Trichrome. The band, which was formed in 1999 and has won several Minnesota Music Awards for "best Reggae band," describes its music as "an amalgam of the communities and lives of its members."
A Minneapolis resident and blues pianist, Miller began playing the piano at age six and has toured both at home and abroad. His albums include "Day of Reckoning" (2004) and "Livin' Between the Black 'N White" (2006). He has been a finalist in the "Solo/Duo" category at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, Tenn.
Miller is joined by bassist John Iden and drummer Mark O'Day, who he's been performing with since 2002, and saxophone player Brian Simonds.
Tickets can be purchased online at www.mnsu.edu/music. For more information, call 507-389-5549.
Derek Wehrwein is the Reporter variety editor
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