After making the album The Only Constant in a local studio, the band booked its first “tour” of tiny bars and college basement parties between their home in Texas and League’s mother’s house in northern Virginia.
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The first Snarky Puppy show took place in the basement of a small pizza shop (J&J’s Pizza on the Square), and the band started playing for free around town.
He created the group (made up of 10 university students) as an outlet for his compositions with the humble goal of weekly rehearsals in a tiny garage apartment a few blocks from the town square. Snarky Puppy was formed in 2004 in Denton, Texas, where founder Michael League was attending the University of North Texas. The success that the group has achieved has opened doors to new creative possibilities: their own record label, collaborations with a diverse array of artists, playing opportunities in underserved regions, their own annual music festival, and ambitious recording projects unlike anything they’ve undertaken before.īut it wasn’t always this way for the Texas-born, Brooklyn-based ensemble. In fact, Snarky Puppy is as driven and focused in its 18th year as it has ever been. But on the heels of their most recent Grammy Winning album, Live At The Royal Albert Hall, the band is doing anything but.
(plus per ticket fee, directly supporting the Capitol Center/Bank of NH Stage)Īfter almost 2,000 shows, 13 albums, 4 Grammy awards, 8 JazzTimes and Downbeat awards, hundreds of masterclasses at educational institutions around the world, and over a decade and a half of 19 rotating band members, who have each embarked on their own solo careers in addition to working as sidemen with a variety of artists across the musical spectrum, it would seem as though Snarky Puppy is ready to slow down a bit and enjoy the ride.
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