The California Honeydrops
The Tuning Fork are excited to welcome R&B/Soul group, The California Honeydrops, to our shores in April 2019 for their debut NZ visit!
Pause PurchaseStream over 50 million songs, ad-free. Or download albums and tracks to listen to offline. All the music in your personal CoolTunes library — no matter where it came from — lives alongside the best Music catalogue. Start your free three-month trial with no commitment, and cancel at any time.
Start you tiral nowBest musics are available in musicHub, and for iOS and Android devices.
With thousands of movies to choose from, there’s always something great to watch on iTunes. And if you watch on Apple TV 4K, you’ll be able to enjoy a tremendous selection of your favourite content in 4K HDR. Catch up on hit movies you’ve been meaning to see — any time, anywhere. Just tap to play, or even download if you’re going somewhere you won’t have Wi-Fi.
Read moreThe Tuning Fork, 42-80 Mahuhu Crescent, Auckland, CBD, Auckland
Thursday 11 April 2019 7:00pm – 11:00pm
The Tuning Fork are excited to welcome R&B/Soul group, The California
Honeydrops, to our shores in April 2019 for their debut NZ visit!
"The California Honeydrops have crafted an easy listening sound that marries
the bounce and strut of the Big Easy with the soul of Memphis and Muscle
Shoals." - No depression
"For more than 90 minutes on Sunday, the Honeydrops made Jefferson Center
feel more like a Big Easy with move-inducing grooves, blasting horns, pumping
Hammond organ and one whale of a frontman in singer/guitarist/trumpeter Lech
Wierzynski." - The Roanoke Times
The California Honeydrops celebrate their 10th year together with the release
of their 7th studio album and first ever double album, Call It Home: Vol. 1 &
2 and continue to perform worldwide. Led by dynamic vocalist and
multi-instrumentalist Lech Wierzynski, and drawing on diverse musical
influences from Bay Area R&B, funk, Southern soul, Delta blues, and New
Orleans second-line, the Honeydrops bring vibrant energy and infectious
dance-party vibes to their shows.
In 2016 & 2017 the Honeydrops were honored to support Bonnie Raitt on her
North America release tour—and in the past have been privileged to support
the likes of B.B. King, Allen Toussaint, Buddy Guy, and Dr. John.
Whether in those high-profile performances or in more intimate venues where
the band itself can leave the stage and get down on the dance floor, the
California Honeydrops’ shared vision and purpose remain: to make the audience
dance and sing.
Honeydrops have come a long way since guitarist and trumpeter Lech
Wierzynkski and drummer Ben Malament started busking in an Oakland subway
station, but the band has stayed true to that organic, street-level feel.
Listening to Lech sing, it can be a surprise that he was born in Warsaw,
Poland, and raised by Polish political refugees.
He learned his vocal stylings from contraband American recordings of Sam
Cooke, Ray Charles, and Louis Armstrong, and later at Oberlin College and on
the club circuit in Oakland, California. With the additions of Johnny Bones
on tenor sax and clarinet, Lorenzo Loera on keyboards, and Beau Bradbury on
bass, they’ve built a powerful full-band sound to support Wierzynski’s
vocals.
More like parties than traditional concerts, their shows feature extensive
off-stage jamming and crowd interaction. “The whole point is to erase the
boundaries between the crowd and us,” Wierzynski says. “We don’t make
setlists. We want requests. We want crowd involvement, to make people become
a part of the whole thing by dancing along, singing, picking the songs and
generally coming out of their shells.”
The musicHub Store is available on all your devices, which means you can buy that catchy song you just heard or rent that movie you’ve been meaning to see, whenever you want. And since your entire library of music and movies lives in iCloud, everything you buy is immediately available, no matter how you want to play it.
Lorem ipsum dolor sit, amet consectetur adipisicing elit. Maiores, cum ducimus? Aut quaerat, dolores quasi voluptate, repellat quibusdam minima, tenetur sunt aspernatur sint minus inventore vero? Odio consectetur facere quae?
Already have an App Store & iTunes or Apple Store gift card?