SOULIVE
With the SHADY HORNS
& Special Guest NIGEL HALL

& THE BENEVENTO/RUSSO DUO

AT THE STUDIO AT COLTON THEATER

Date: Friday, May 1, 2009
Time: Doors open at 9pm
Place: The Studio at Colton Theater, 2300 Saint Claude Avenue, New Orleans
Tickets: Advance tickets are $25 available at www.backbeatpresents.com

Please join us on Friday, May 1st for a night of soulful funk and rocking
jazz with New York's preeminent groove machine Soulive and the alternative
jazz/rock pair, the Benevento/Russo Duo.

Since forming Soulive in 1999, guitarist Eric Krasno, organist Neal Evans and
drummer Alan Evans have developed a reputation as one of the most sought after
instrumental soul-funk trios around, a hard-touring live act that's
thrown down
everywhere from small rock clubs to opening arena shows for the
Rolling Stones.
The musical relationships that Soulive has developed, from Chaka Khan, to Dave
Matthews, Talib Kweli John Scofield, Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi,
Robert Randolph,
Joshua Redman, and so many others, speak volumes about both how
versatile these
talented musicians are. Jazz, hip-hop, rock, soul, funk, R & B,
Blues-- musically,
there is not much Soulive hasn't done. Joining the funk powerhouse for a very
special performance will be the raging horn section of Lettuce, The
Shady Horns,
and emerging soul vocalist Nigel Hall.


Following the funky beats of Soulive will be a performance by the
essentials of
the jam band scene, the Benevento/Russo Duo. The Benevento/Russo Duo formed in
2002 when Joe Russo was offered a Thursday night residency at New York City's
Knitting Factory. He enlisted childhood chum Marco Benevento and the
two performed
as an organ and drum combo for $50 each. With hardly any written
material at first,
the Duo made a virtue out of necessity by converting loose sketches
into 20-minute
improvisations. From the very beginning, the group proved that they could also
handle instrumental revisions of Led Zeppelin or Radiohead songs with
equal skill
and audacity. Far from its initiation, when the Benevento/Russo Duo
was conceptualized
for economy, these days the band remains a twosome of pure artistic
desire. The
Benevento/Russo Duo was the winner of New Groove of the Year in 2005,
at the 5th
Annual Jammys. They are an indie-rock band that jams. They are a
jazz-combo that rocks.