Fresno Famous

Friday the 13th brings you Aphrodesia at the Crossroads!

Who is Aphrodesia? Emerging in 2003 from the fertile San Francisco Bay Area music scene, Aphrodesia's highly original brand of 'Super Aphro Beat' and uncompromising political stance made them resist easy classification. In 2004, the band exploded into the national consciousness with the "Just Vote Tour", a swing-state voter registration tour that took the band all the way to NYC and back in their vegetable oil-powered bus and landed the group on the cover of USA Today.

Aphrodesia's extraordinary sonic stew encompasses touches of Afrobeat, Highlife, dub, funk, Caribbean spice and East African trance music. Captivating vocals, screaming horns, driving bass lines and uplifiting percussion keep audiences energized and engaged.

The band's debut CD, "Shackrobeat Vol. 1" (Flatbed Lamborghini), was picked as one of the best records of 2003 by the East Bay Express, and showstopping performances in 2004 and 2005 at the Aspen JazzFest, the Earthdance Festival, the Sierra Nevada World Music Festival, the High Sierra Music Festival and many other festivals and venues won the group high praise. Meanwhile, the band opened for Steel Pulse in California and Colorado and shared festival stages with everyone from Willie Nelson to Ozomatli to Zap Mama. Aphrodesia's second CD, 2005's "Front Lines" (Full Cut Records), was featured on National Public Radio, won rave reviews from media outlets from Global Rhythm Magazine to the Village Voice and broadened the band's already wide appeal even further, setting the stage for their landmark trip to Africa in 2006.

This week, Aphrodesia is driving their biodiesel bus to Fresno to shake it up at The Crossroads. Don't miss it!

http://www.crossroadsfresno.net/index.php

Location: The Crossroads, 3315 N. Cedar, Fresno
Starts: 2007 Apr 13 - 9:30pm
Ends: 2007 Apr 14 - 1:00am
Website: http://aphrodesia.org/y.htm