Primitive Culture, Panchromatic Steel, Mal-O-Dua

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Jeffrey Alexander

Panchromatic Steel

Three heavy hitters with island influences lend their talents to this benefit for Music Makes a Difference. The proceeds from this show go to Savory Sunday, an organization that feeds homeless people in the basement of the state Capitol every Sunday. With sets from the infectiously danceable steel drummers of Panchromatic Steel (pictured), Hawaiian-French swingers Mal-O-Dua, and funk and reggae grooves from Primitive Culture.

press release: Music Makes a Difference! presents an exciting night showcasing three local musician groups! Tickets are $10 in advance, or $12 at the door on the day of show.

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Mal-O-Dua is the love-child of two artists who fuse Hawaiian music with French gypsy jazz (and that is just putting it simply!). They feature a slack key guitar, bottle neck guitar, standard tuned guitar, and ukulele. If all of this hasn't convinced you yet....well, you're hard to convince!

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Panchromatic Steel is a steeldrum band playing authentic island calypso, jazz, classical and even some familiar pop/rock tunes. Do you know what a steel drum or steel pan is?!? Get ready for this mouthful: "the steel drum is a sawed-off 55-gallon oil drum with the top stretched into a bowl shape and painstakingly hand-hammered to create tone-producing centers, which are struck by rubber-tipped mallets." So yeah, you know that this is a show you don't want to miss!

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Primitive Culture blends funk, rock, reggae, latin, rhythm & blues: say that five times fast!! They whip up some majorly danceable tunes with the masterful use of guitar, drums, bass, percs, horns, and of course, saxophones.