Rehearsals begin!
And today, we start the first of many rehearsals in order to get the sings into shape! WAHOOOOO! Just over a month away to the first shows and we MAY announce a couple of more island gigs shortly too!The improbably fantastic.
It’s almost uncanny. Sometime in 2005, someone asked me if there’d every be another Roots Roundup show. Given the last one at that point was in 1998. my reaction was a kind, gentle, well, not terribly likely, maybe when hell freezes over kind of response....
Brisk. Brisk, I tell you.
That’d be ticket sales. Which, is pretty amazing to all of us. That being said, if you really do want to go, we highly advise getting your tickets in advance. 3 days down the road and the show is 1/3rd sold already and it’s two months away. The easiest...
And with that…
Tickets are now on sale, posters are going up, rehearsals getting booked… woohoo! Looking for advance tickets (which, we HIGHLY recommend..) go here
Wait, what?
So, the previous Roots web site was likely written sometime in 2006 and it was old, dusty, creaky and crappy. Which, may be kind of appropriate now that I think about it… Greg had contacted me recently…. “So Barry is into doing a show, I’ve got...
Roots Roundup plays a high energy hybrid of globe-spanning music, mashing up the sounds of rock’n roll, reggae, ska, afro-beat, folk, funk and pure old school punk rock.The Roots Roundup lineup has evolved over the years as members pursued various musical interests including performing, writing, recording and teaching. Core Roots members Greg Hathaway, Dave Hannah (Dym-E-Tree), Barry Taylor, Keith Rose, David Hathaway, Mark Campbell, Shuggy Milligan and special guest trombonist Andy Cakes reunited in 2005, treating a full house of loyal and new fans to a truly rip-roaring two-night performance at the Fairview Pub in Vancouver.
Originally formed in 1985 in a small apartment in East Vancouver, Roots Roundup became widely known through the late 80′s and early 90′s as one of Canada’s hardest working, hardest touring and hardest rockin’ worldbeat dance bands. They released numerous independent recordings including “Get Rooted”, “What We Do”, “Syzygy” and in 1997, “Rootrospective”, a 16 song collection spanning their entire recording career.