After a long break, obviously due to the pandemic and resulting lockdowns, Boulevard Music is hosting live music again, starting with an acoustic set by Led Zeppelin tribute act Led Zepagain on Saturday, Sept. 10.
“Experience the original social media – it’s called LIVE MUSIC,” reads a statement from Boulevard Music. See live music, experience human beings, get off the couch and even make new friends.”
The News spoke to Led Zepagain prior to a Boulevard Music Festival appearance back in 2017, when bassist Joe Wootten said that, “Ever since I’ve been in the band, we’ve always strove to be as accurate as possible to the recordings. We’ve tried to be as authentic from a looks standpoint, equipment, but most importantly from a musical perspective. We just want it to be a situation where people are hearing the songs like they remember them on the record. We don’t want to put our own personality into it at all. We just want to make it as close to seeing Led Zeppelin as you possibly can. Others do that to varying degrees, but some of them don’t. Sone of them just figure, ‘Hey, we’re not gonna dress like them or try to look like them – we’re just gonna go up and play the music.’ That’s fine, but we’ve always tried to take an approach that we want you to have the complete experience of seeing Led Zeppelin in concert.”
That show was also an acoustic gig, and Wootten said, “The show that we’re going to be doing in Culver City is a little bit different in that what we’re doing is playing the music all acoustically. There’s going to be no electric instruments on stage. It’s all acoustic and we’re playing with a string quartet. They’re not playing the parts that were on the recordings. We actually asked somebody to write some original string parts against what Zeppelin had done on the recordings. So we’re playing the songs like the recordings, but they’re playing other counterpoint melodies that really make it interesting and fresh.”
On Saturday, Sept. 17, Tony McManus will perform, and a statement from Boulevard reads, “Tony has both extended and transcended the parameters of contemporary Celtic music. Ranked by peers and predecessors alike alongside the guitar world’s all-time greats, his fiendishly dextrous, dazzlingly original playing draws on traditions from the entire Celtic world, along with still further-ranging flavors such as jazz and Eastern European music.”
In addition, fingerstyle guitarist Christie Lenée performs on Friday, Oct. 21, and the Carl Verheyen Bands is at Boulevard on Saturday, Nov. 19.
For more information, go to Boulevardmusic.com.
