Great American Music Hall (Venue Partner)
859 O'Farrell St
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7 Walker
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Friday Aug 6, 2010 (8pm)
Saturday Aug 7, 2010 (8pm)
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$25
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Grateful Dead timekeeper Bill Kreutzmann and Crescent City funkster Papa Mali, along with Matt Hubbard and Reed Mathis (Tea Leaf Green), have joined together for a new project billed as 7 Walkers. Currently working on a new CD, the sessions have been made up almost entirely of new material that has been co-written by Robert Hunter and Papa Mali.
Drummer Bill Kreutzmann, best known as the steadfast heartbeat of the Grateful Dead from 1965-1995, has devoted his life to stretching and surpassing the percussive limits of music. Armed with his signature dynamic rhythm and uncanny subtly, Kreutzmann's lifetime pursuit has garnered him the reputation as an unequivocal, if enigmatic, backbeat.
Malcolm Wellborn's personification, Papa Mali, is a salute to his home territory of north Louisiana. Malcolm was raised in Shreveport, where absorbing the blues along Bayou Pierre was just as much a matter of course as chasing the mosquito fogging truck with friends — and equally intoxicating. He spent his summers with grandparents in New Orleans digging that city's rhythm (and blues) and after hearing the Wild Tchoupitoulas and the Meters on the streets of New Orleans at age eleven, he developed an early and ongoing attachment to Crescent City funk.
