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The People’s String Foundation
September 6, 2014 @ 5:15 pm
ELECTRIC STAGE
The South West is the appropriate home for the beautifully evocative, languid and lush music of The People’s String Foundation – the urban jazz collective.
Theirs is unfamiliar territory, scaling the heights of jazz, hip-hop beat-work, Middle Eastern melodies- performed with an eye toward experimentation and nods toward the avant-garde. Essentially the brainchild of multi-instrumentalist and jazz singer Ben Sutcliffe and world/blues guitarist Zaid Al-Rikabi – the duo combine to wonderful songwriting effect, but it’s in their live performances that the group combine, enlisting the assistance of a troupe of inspired musicians – encompassing the very uniqueness of “that moment, that gig