Walking Bear Productions Present:Omar Lady Alma, DJ Junior, Hosted by
Wes Felton, Eavesdrop Radio / WKDU Aug 18 2019 · SunDoors: 6:30 pm /
Show: 7:00 pm THE ARDMORE MUSIC HALL $30 Advance / $35 Day of Show /
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Omar Website Facebook Links Omar first came to prominence more than 2
decades ago, when his debut single for indie label Kongo Dance Mr.
Postman/You And Me made him a hot name on London’s underground. It
was soon afterwards that the success of his Ohio Players-influenced
love ballad, the much celebrated There’s Nothing Like This, led to
his signing to Gilles Peterson’s Talkin’ Loud label. Omar released
a couple of albums for the Phonogram affiliate during 1992/3, the
first a re-working of his Kongo set for the wider audience, the
second, Music, a vastly more orchestral and organic affair that
highlighted Omar’s maturing as a composer, arranger and vocalist.
Thereafter Omar signed to RCA, for whom he cut two further albums that
notched up acres of critical acclaim as well as introduced him to
several of his musical heroes and heroines. On 1994’s For Pleasure,
the set that includes such Omar signature songs as Saturday, Outside
and the Erykah Badu favourite Little Boy, he worked alongside the
legendary former Motown producers Leon Ware and Lamont Dozier. On
‘97’s This Is Not A Love Song, largely a collaboration with
LA-based producer David Frank, he did a great cover of The
Stranglers’ Golden Brown and got to sing with one of his all- time
favourite vocalists, Syreeta Wright on two songs, including the
sumptuous slowie Lullaby. By 2000, Omar had moved on again, this time
signing up with hip French imprint Naïve Records. The following year,
now well established as the leading icon of the UK’s resurgent soul
movement, Omar released his fifth album, Best By Far, a self- produced
set on which he allowed his interest in cinematic soundtracks and jazz
to rise to the surface. Once again, the star names turned out: on the
album version of Be Thankful, a re-cut of the William DeVaughn
seventies soul hit, it’s Erykah Badu who came good on her promise to
work with our man. [On the version released as a single, it was Angie
Stone on co-lead.] Meanwhile recent MOBO winner Kele Le Roc supplied
the strident lead on the anthemic groove Come On, also a single edit.
A former principal percussionist of the Kent Youth Orchestra and later
graduate of the Guildhall School Of Music in London, Omar has now been
making music for more than 21 years. And while it would be true to say
that during that time the high quality of his work has not really been
reflected by number of pop hit singles he’s enjoyed, there’s
certainly no sign of his being discouraged. Quite the contrary in
fact: with Sing [If You Want It], Omar is just embarking on a new
phase of his career, one that’s designed to bring him directly to a
wider public than ever before. “I’m enjoying life so much right
now,” he says. “I play with great bands, there’s always new
music to make, new styles to blend, new people to reach... man, I went
to Sainsbury’s the other day and it felt like I’d been on
Crimewatch or something, the amount of people looking over and coming
up to shake my hand. It really feels like a new beginning for me.”
Omar’s 7th studio album ‘The Man’ (Freestyle Records) was
released on June 24th 2013, and received fantastic support from BBC
radios’ Gilles Peterson, Trevor Nelson, Benji B, as well as Jazz
FMs’ Chris Philips and peter Young and has garnered some of the most
glowing accolades of his entire career. Omar returns with a brand new
album that many say is without doubt the strongest of his entire
career. The buzz generated by the single release of the album's title
track, The Man, confirmed beyond doubt that Omar is very much at the
top of his game, with everyone from BBC 6 Music's Gilles Peterson, BBC
Radio 2's Trevor Nelson and Jamie Cullum giving both major support and
high praise for the simply magnificent new high point for Omar's
renowned ability to write devastatingly catchy melodies. Across the
rest of this new album, opener Simplify sets the template, with its
luscious and majestic string backed introduction raising the curtain
on this deep, hard grooving number. Omar also joins forces with
Germany's Hidden Jazz Quartett on High Heels - growling organ spars
with the tough, jagged drumbeat on this tough, funk driven
collaboration. Elsewhere, latin textures and rhythms have always been
part of Omar's far reaching musical vocabulary, and on Come On Speak
To Me and Ordinary Day restless south American beats underpin the
crisp and fresh melodies. tfly_artist_bio_links(); Lady Alma Website
Facebook Watch Links Lady Alma's fans run the gamut - from progressive
artists like Moby, Kindred the Family Soul, India.Arie, Joan Osborne,
Musiq and Les Nubians to regular working-class folk in West London
clubs and West Philly barber shops. In cities everywhere from Atlanta
and Amsterdam to Toronto and Tokyo, vocal sensation Alma Horton --
known to her fans worldwide as LADY ALMA - has become the name to
know, deemed "the heart & soul of Philadelphia's soul scene" and
heralded as "the truth in a roomful of lies" among tastemaker's
circles. DJ Junior Website Links Hosted by Wes Felton Website Bandcamp
Links American singer, songwriter, producer, poet, actor, emcee. Son
of Hilton Felton tfly_artist_bio_links();Venue Information:The ARDMORE
Music Hall23 East Lancaster AveArdmore, PA,
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