The First Family of Funk, THE NEVILLE BROTHERS Announce Irish Date!

Throughout their brilliant careers as both solo performers and as members of the group that bears their family name, THE NEVILLE BROTHERS have proudly carried the torch of their native New Orleans' rich R&B legacy, representing the essence of more than 50 years of New Orleans music distilled within one family unit.

‘Tell It Like It Is’; ‘Yellow Moon’; ‘Don’t Know Much’, ‘Dancin' Jones’; ‘Sister Rosa’, ‘Can’t Stop The Funk’, ‘Washable Ink’; ‘Break Away’; ‘Arianne’; ‘Over You’, ‘Fever’; ‘Brother John’; ‘Will the Circle be Unbroken’, ‘Meet de Boys on the Battlefront’; ‘Mojo Hannah’; ‘Drift Away’; ‘Wake Up’; ‘Amazing Grace’; ‘Down By The Riverside’; ‘Amen’, ‘Rivers of Babylon’, ‘Love the One You're With’/’You Can't Always Get What You Want’; ‘Let My People Go/’Get Up Stand Up’; ‘Amazing Grace’; ‘One Love’/’People Get Ready’, ’Ain’t No Sunshine’...

DUBLIN’S AMBASSADOR THEATRE
proudly presents:

From New Orleans
THE NEVILLE BROTHERS
Art, Charles, Aaron, Cyril

Don’t Miss the Full Funk, R & B, Soul Experience
LIVE!
6th March 2005

One of a Select Number of Special European Dates During March. Tickets on-sale now from Ticketmaster and usual outlets nationwide.

- Featuring:
ART NEVILLE
(born Arthur Lanon Neville, 17 December 1937, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; keyboards, vocals) Art was originally the leader of the Hawkettes, whose 1954 Chess Records hit "Mardi Gras Mambo" has become a New Orleans standard, reissued every year at Mardi Gras time. From 1957 he released solo singles on Specialty Records, and in the early 60s, both he and Aaron worked (separately) for the legendary producer Allen Toussaint.

In 1968 Art formed The Meters, one of the Crescent City's most innovative and respected outfits. Featuring Leo Nocentelli (guitar), George Porter (bass), Joseph Modeliste (drums) and, later, CYRIL NEVILLE (born 10 January 1948, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; vocals), they were New Orleans' answer to Booker T. And The MGs, and besides their own albums, they could be heard on early 1970s releases by Paul McCartney, Robert Palmer, LaBelle and Dr. John.

The Wild Tchoupitoulas was a transitional album released in 1976 and featuring the Meters rhythm section and all four Neville Brothers; by 1978 they were officially a group – THE NEVILLE BROTHERS were born.

CHARLES NEVILLE
(born 28 December 1938, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; saxophone, flute)
· In advance of forming The Wild Tchoupitoulas and then The Neville Brothers, Charles had been working as part of the Dew Drop Inn's house band with many legendary names: B.B. King, Bobby Bland and Ray Charles, among them.

· His brothers affectionately refer to him as "The Horn Man". His saxophone helped The Neville Brothers win a Grammy in 1989 for his haunting rendition of ‘Healing Chant’ on their 1989 ‘Yellow Moon’ album.


AARON NEVILLE
(born 24 January 1941, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; vocals, keyboards) Often compared to Sam Cooke in terms of his vocal style. Aaron had emerged from vocal group the Avalons, and had a R&B hit in 1960 with Toussaint's "Over You".

In 1967 that he achieved fame with the soul ballad "Tell It Like It Is', a million-seller that reached number 2 in the U.S. charts.

Along with his success in The Neville Brothers, Aaron has also had concurrent solo successes most notably with the massive Linda Ronstadt duet ‘Don’t Know Much’ that went to Number 2 on both sides of the Atlantic in 1989 and which also won them both a Grammy Award for ‘Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal’. Further Grammy success with Ronstadt followed in 1990 with ‘All My Life’.

Aaron teamed up with Trish Yearwood for their ‘I Fall To Pieces’ duet in 1994 which one ‘Best Country Vocal Contribution’ earning him his fourth Grammy Award.


Don’t miss your chance to see the fantastic Neville Brothers Live in Ireland for one special night Dublin’s Ambassador Theatre on Sunday, March 6th ’05.
Doors: 7.30pm.

Tickets from €47.50 on-sale now from Ticketmaster and usual outlets nationwide. Book online at www.ticketmaster.ie For telephone bookings, please call the 24 Hour Ticketmaster credit card line on 0818 719 300 (R.O.I.) and 0870 2434455 (N. Ireland)

THE NEVILLE BROTHERS - DISCOGRAPHY
1978 - The Neville Brothers
1981 - Fiyo on the Bayou
1982- Nevillization I/Live at Tipitina's
1982 - Nevillization II: Live at Tipitina's
1984 - Neville-ization [Live]
1987 - Uptown
1989 - Yellow Moon
1990 - Brother's Keeper
1992 - Family Groove
1994 - Live on Planet Earth
1996 - Mitakuye Oyasin Oyasin/All My Relations
1999 - Valence Street
2003 - Live in New Orleans
2004 - Hook, Line & Sinker
2004 - Walkin' in the Shadow of Life