Press release:
The Akron, Ohio, world-traveling Zydeco band, Mo’ Mojo, is coming to Asheville, NC, as part of a tour to support their fourth release, “We All Got the Same.” The group will perform at Isis Restaurant & Music Hall on Friday November 20, 2015. 9:00pm showtime. Admission is $10 in advance/$12 at the door.
Mo’ Mojo is a hard-driving, high energy, “Pardi-Gras” Band. The female-fronted group features three-part harmonies, accordion, fiddle, guitar, rubboard, sax, trumpet, harp, bass, percussion, and drums. Songs are sung in English and French.
Mo’ Mojo is both an international and national touring group, having spent the last year traveling as Cultural Ambassadors through the U.S. State Department’s American Music Abroad program. In June of 2014 they made their first trip overseas – to Haiti; in Oct.-Nov. of 2014 they performed in the Dominican Republic; in Jan./Feb. of 2015 they spent 37 days on the road traveling to Washington DC, Belize, Panama, Mexico, Barbados and Colombia; and most recently in June 2015 they traveled to Tajikistan. (Yes, that Tajikistan – the one that lies just north of Afghanistan and Pakistan.) In the states they’ve spent the last two summers playing at festivals in Michigan, Kentucky, Maryland, New York, Rhode Island, and Ohio.
Their new album, “We All Got The Same,” has 12 songs: 9 originals; 2 Zydeco standards meant to pay homage to the musical tradition; and 1 two-parts cover/one-part original medley based on Bob Marley’s, “Stir It Up.” It features the unique stylings that Mo’ Mojo is known for with an Americana-base that blends in Zydeco, reggae, Cajun, blues, instrumental, and indie sounds.
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