San Francisco, CA's ALO returned to New York City for the first time in three years, per guitarist Dan "Lebo" Lebowitz, and entertained multiple sit-ins at the iconic Brooklyn Bowl in Brooklyn, NY. The special guests included bassist Reed Mathis, guitarist Daniel Donato and the opening band, the Honey Island Swamp Band.
Photo Credit: Jamie Huenefeld Last night, August 17, ALO took their Silver Saturdays Summer Tour to New York’s Brooklyn Bowl. The evening started with a
San Francisco Bay Area-based ALO delivered two sets of their infectious brand of songs and jamming on August 6, but the news-headline of the day was the inaugural performance by Jay Lane & The Mayhem. Fresh off tour with Dead and Company, drummer Lane’s Mayhem trio presented a lively, improvisational, and supremely interesting hourlong 3 p.m. set that included material by Bob Dylan, Neil Young, John Lennon, Lane himself, and even composer John Williams.
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- what does your name mean? - it comes from evocation. to bring an image from the conscious mind and put it out into the world. i paint a lot of stuff that s from my childhood, reflecting back on my life, so i just thought the name fit. - what is it that you evoke from inside your head, that you bring out? - i paint about the community. before, when i started painting, i was doing a lot of political work. and then i used to just watch a bunch of documentaries about stuff happening around the world, people starving. - inspired by community figures like salvador allende, roberto clemente, and jackie robinson, evoca1 s early work protested injustice. - so i started doing these drawings of these starving kids, and i started putting them all over my neighborhood. somebody saw them and was like, you need to do that in wynwood. - yeah. growing up, evoca1 didn t have access to a formal arts education. that was for the rich. so like a lot of kids from the dominican republic, he took up america