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Tropic Culture show today February 6 at the Double Door Inn.
Hi Music world,
It has been a great week for Tropic Culture. Although the wheather is a nuisance, we still are moving along with having our shows. Last Saturday we had an acoustic set at Pura Vida. The snow and ice did not help but we decided to do it anyway,. A full house of listeners and we thank Teresa once again for making it happen and facilitating our music. The following Sunday we performed for a festival conference where we build relationships with event sponsors and agents. It was a great experiences. Later in the week we went up to Greensboro to perform at the Blind Tiger. Had a great time. Thanks for the pizza. Today we will be performing at the Double Door Inn in Charlotte, NC. This will be a turning point for Tropic Culture as we are performing for some industry professionals. Wish us Luck. More importantly we hope that all can make it out . The opening band will be a Funk-reggae band called ZF and the Essentials. See you tonight. Much Love, Tropic Culture Happy Holidays
Happy Holidays and a fun new Years. As always be safe and have a designated driver. Lots of good things coming for 2010. Keep on the loop as we are coordinating with our community at large. Also when you get a chance, we would like to hear your thoughts on our new website. Something new for the New Years.
Happy Holidays, Tropic Culture Last nights Tropic Culture's acoustic show at Pura Vida
Yesterday evening we had the privilege to perform an acoustic set at Pura Vida Worldly Art in Charlotte, NC. The listen ing room in the back has a great intimate atmosphere where all get to experience the vibe of the music and emotional transitions and interpretations. Familiar faces were seen as well as new unknown faces. We thank Teresa for the opportunity and greatly appreciate all who were there for the performance. A unique event happened yesterday. Petey, who is typically our bass player, took upon himself to try to play the Puerto Rican Cuatro. The Cuatro is a 5 course 10 string instrument. Its along the family line of guitars but smaller. It was a great success and he did a phenomenal job. Just another arsenal added to our repertoire of instruments. Yesterday we had Petey, Gabe, Alberto, Jani, and Jorge come together to show half the size of Tropic Culture. Instruments represented were guitars, Bass, Cuatro, Vocals, Latin Percussion and Violin. We look forward to doing it again soon. Coming up this Thursday is our Full band gig at the Visulite Theater. Hope to see you all there. If you are interested in visiting and seeing what Pura Vida Worldly Art store is all about, visit them at http://puravidaart.com/. you check the schedule and meet the owner and so forth. See you all This Thursday. Checking out....
J.... Tropic Culture's song "Noche Guerra" selected to be the background track
When Tony called us about utilizing our song to be the background track for the 2009 Recap video of the Latin American Festival in Charlotte, we were exstatic. Finally the video is out and you can see it here. Thanks Latin American Festival 2009 for selecting our song "Noche Guerra".
Latin American Festival this past weekend
On Sunday,
We got the privalage to perform at the 2009 Latin American Festival in Charlotte, NC. Along with some great artist local and nationally known. The national acts were Grupo Fantasma and Jorge Villamizar from Bacilos. Look them up their music its pretty awesome. Our homegrown town of Charlotte has brought some great talent throughout the years and this year it was even better. This year along with Tropic Culture, Leydy Bonilla, Sin Recursos, Elio Carvajal, and Orchestra Mayour made a presence to the Charlotte Community. It was lots of fun. If you are interested in checking any of the artist mentioned just go this link: http://www.festivallatinoamericano.org/2009.html. It will have all the artist that played this year and their associated websites. Thank you Tony for the opportunity and we enjoyed it greatly. thanks to all our devoted friends, family and fans that attended the event. We will see you soon. Next Charlotte Show will December 3, 2009 at the Visulite Theater. Until Next time, checking out J.... This Past Weekend
What a weekend. On Saturday we headed our way to the Flat Rock Music Festival. It was raining the entire ride up there and finally cleared out when we got close to the facilities. Speaking of facilities We drove our trailer and vehicle through some trails. We got stuck in Mud to find out we were going the wrong way. Had a tractor come to our rescue and pull us out. THANKS! So we made it finally to our destination after all the road challeges we acquired. The Festival was pretty awesome with the GYM bein full of people, barefooted, happy and ready to party. WE ended up starting about 1:00 am. Played for 2 hours and started to pack so we can head over to our next destination: The International Folk Festival. We stopped half way and got to our hotels at 6:30 am in the morning. Slept for about 3 to 4 hours and headed our way up for another 2:30 hour drive. WE finally get there and this stage was HUGE! Lots of people around and ready for us to get started. While performing I had a fLy or Nat driving me nuts. it would not leave me alone. It would fly by my ear. I would turn my head over really quick to try to get it away. While I was playing. It had to look funny, or look like I had a condition as I did it serveral times through out the show. finally I just stopped and took care of the problem, to than have another come by and do the same thing again. Well, we had a great time. We like to thank Kathleen and all the great help we had at the Flat Rock Music. We like to thank Kelvin for being a great sport and accommmodating us at the international Folk Festival. Great job to both.
Until next time... checking out! Jorge Past few gigs experience
Its time to drop a line or two and wanted to write about our past month and a half dates.
First I like to start with the Acoustic set for the GAP's 40th year anniversary celebration. WE got the priveliage to perform an acoutic set at the Greensboro Four Seasons Mall. Most importantly we met some wonderful individuals: James, John, Dotie, Emily, Dale and others that I really can't remember off the top of my head. Thanks for the support and being there for Tropic Culture. The Following week we made it over to the Blind Tiger in Greensboro, NC. Doc was a great host and gave us the oportunity to throw down at the Blind Tiger. Thanks Doc and everyone there to support us: Julie, Aaron, and many of our friends from the area. That Saturday we ended up playing an acoustic set at Pura Vida Worldly Art. not only was it fun, it was a great intimate experience with everyone's eyes on us. The liscening room was great and Teresa was a great host. We met Carlos, The videographer and Alex, the photographer. Both great individuals that love what they do. We certainly appreciate the love for the arts, not just music but photography, arts, andvideography. Teresa thanks and all who attended the events. Labor day weekend came by really fast and hit us a mini tour of three shows that weekend. On Friday we played at the Rock Shop, where we shered the stage with some pretty nice rock bands from different areas: The Token Black Experience, Gaylord, and Sixgun Republic. Thanks Shawn for having us there, love the place. And to all the musicians and bands, preciate the compliments. Its was rough that night as we left the rock shop at 3:40 in the morning to arrive in Jacksonvill, NC at about 6 in the morning. We had to meet Benjie at 11 in the morning to register our ourself to get into Camp Lejeune. We played that afternoon at onslow beach. The weather was relly relaxing, wind was going and Gabes (Lead Guitar) family and friends were there to cheer, amongs others. We really appreciate the hospitality that camp lejeune and families have presented to us. We got the privalage to eat some puertorican and mexican dishes before and after the show. Boy was that good. Can't wait to go for some more. By the way, Thanks Susan for having us. Finally we woke up Sunday Morning to drive back home to get ready for our Midtwon Sundries at the Lake show. We got the opportunity to open for Bankie Banks. You guys have to check him out. Cool stuff. Gene was a great host as always and we enjoyed every minute of it. For now that is all and thanks for all of you that make the Tropic Culture world happen. Hasta Next time, checking out, Jorge tropic Culture needs your Help!
TC Fam,
There are 2 voting competitions we are involved with and need your assistance with both. Please click on the links below and vote once a day. You will have to confirm your vote with your email. A message will be sent to your email address once you vote and all you have to do is click on the link and the vote gets confirmed. We need help on placing on the top 25. Vote everyday until August 31, 2009. Only one vote per day. 1. Jansport Battle of The Band 2. Taylor Guitar Sponsorship We appreciate your help. See you soon, Tropic Culture Tropic Culture news and updates
Tropic Culture will be in the Finals of Battle of the Bands sponsored by Amped 4 Cure. Any money raised from the event will go to this great organization. We hope to see all the support out there on July 23, 2009 as it will be based on audience response. For further details look at our events page.
Tropic Culture will have the privilage to be part of the largest-ever simultaneous live acoustic music event, hosted by Gap. On August 20, 2009, every Gap store in the U.S. and Canada will host an exclusive, live acoustic music night to celebrate Gap’s 40 years of heritage in jeans and music. Tropic Culture will be a part of this event with an unplugged Acoustic show at the GAP in the Four Seasons Mall in Greesnboro, NC. If you are there come support the event. Check out the details at our events page. further blogs, news and information to come your way. Thanks, tropic Culture Cinco De Mayo
Hi TC Fam,
We will be throwing down for cinco de mayo at the Cantina located at 1511 East BLVD, Charlotte, NC. Events starts at 5 pm and we get up at 8:00 pm. Drink specials, food, entertainemnt, the whole works. Come on by and get some coronas and dance it off to the Tropic Culture groove. See you there! P.S. for those of you who lack in the spanish skills, cinco de mayo is May 5. This Tuesday May 5. Later Love, TC 
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