Gaining fans one by one through their travels, the band shifted tactics and decided to make a live, in-studio album with some added components- a live audience and video cameras. The sound began to change dramatically, illustrated in Snarky Puppy’s third album, Bring Us The Bright. League and several other members moved an hour south to Dallas and became deeply embedded in the city’s rich gospel and R&B scene, and as a result, added heavyweight musicians such as Bernard Wright, Robert “Sput” Searight, Bobby Sparks, Mark Lettieri, and Shaun Martin to the band’s ranks. In its first ten years, Snarky Puppy made endless loops through the United States playing in any little place that would take the risk of booking them. This trip, done in a passenger van and trailer with a shoestring budget and sleeping bags in lieu of hotel rooms, was the beginning of a very arduous decade of touring and recording in all but complete obscurity. After making the album The Only Constant in a local studio, the band booked its first “tour” of tiny bars and college basement parties between their home in Texas and League’s mother’s house in northern Virginia.
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The first Snarky Puppy show took place in the basement of a small pizza shop (J&J’s Pizza on the Square), and the band started playing for free around town. He created the group (made up of 10 university students) as an outlet for his compositions with the humble goal of weekly rehearsals in a tiny garage apartment a few blocks from the town square. Snarky Puppy was formed in 2004 in Denton, Texas, where founder Michael League was attending the University of North Texas. The success that the group has achieved has opened doors to new creative possibilities: their own record label, collaborations with a diverse array of artists, playing opportunities in underserved regions, their own annual music festival, and ambitious recording projects unlike anything they’ve undertaken before.īut it wasn’t always this way for the Texas-born, Brooklyn-based ensemble. In fact, Snarky Puppy is as driven and focused in its 18th year as it has ever been. But on the heels of their most recent Grammy Winning album, Live At The Royal Albert Hall, the band is doing anything but. “Of course we’ll be mixing them in with material from previous albums (including some very old songs we haven’t played in years), but it will be really special sharing the new ones with the audience who first welcomed us to Europe in 2012.(plus per ticket fee, directly supporting the Capitol Center/Bank of NH Stage)Īfter almost 2,000 shows, 13 albums, 4 Grammy awards, 8 JazzTimes and Downbeat awards, hundreds of masterclasses at educational institutions around the world, and over a decade and a half of 19 rotating band members, who have each embarked on their own solo careers in addition to working as sidemen with a variety of artists across the musical spectrum, it would seem as though Snarky Puppy is ready to slow down a bit and enjoy the ride. League said: “The band is so excited about bringing 11 new songs to the UK on our upcoming tour.” The ensemble was originally formed in Texas as a 10-piece by band leader Michael League, and has since collaborated with the likes of Marcus Miller, Justin Timberlake and Snoop Dogg, spanning genres throughout their decade-and-a-half long career. The nine dates will be as part of their world tour in support of their twelfth studio album Immigrance, which was released in March this year. The three-time GRAMMY-winning collective Snarky Puppy will tour the UK in November 2019. Snarky Puppy have announced nine UK dates next month in support of their new album Immigrance, Getintothis’ Lewis Ridley reports.
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