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En Vogue Coming To Philly For FREE [Post a Comment]
The original “Funky Divas” — Terry Ellis, Dawn Robinson, Cindy Heron, and Maxine Jones — are coming to the City of Brotherly Love (and Sisterly Affection) this month — for FREE.
You read correctly: FREE. The Global Fusion Festival comes to Penns Landing in Philadelphia on Saturday, July 17th. It is an all day event and En Vogue are the headliners. Other performers include R&B singer Lyfe Jennings and gospel performers JJ Hairston and Youthful Praise.
The last time I saw En Vogue in concert was way back in 1991, during the original quartet’s early heyday. I was living in Cincinnati at the time and they performed at the University Of Cincinnati. The opening act was Arrested Development (for those too young to remember, I am referring to the old school rap group which featured rapper Speech and neosoul singer Dionne Farris, not the TV series).
That was a great concert experience for me. Arrested Development, known for their intelligent Afrocentric rap lyrics and performance, were great for warming up the audience. When the ladies of En Vogue took the stage, us guys went crazy. They just looked hot, as they always do and still do. Midway through their performance, one of the ladies ended up discretely bowing out (apparently, she was ill and could not continue) but the remaining three carried on just fine. They had one lucky gentleman from the audience come up on stage, sit down, and gave him quite the thrill by serenading him and singing all sexy for him. Lucky dude.
I continued following En Vogue throughout the years with its lineup changes. I have all of their studio albums except for their Christmas album back in 2001 with Amanda Cole. Must get that one to complete my collection. Musically, the ladies in the group — including replacement members Amanda Cole and Rhonda Barrett — always sounded great. Commercially, they lost their footing after Robinson left the group. However, she is fully back and the ladies have been making the rounds.
I found out on Wikipedia that the fully reunited founding quartet have a new single coming out this year and a new CD in the works. Yay!
If you live in the Philadelphia area (including southern New Jersey and Delaware), you must check En Vogue out at Penns Lending on Saturday, July 17th.
The original “Funky Divas” — Terry Ellis, Dawn Robinson, Cindy Heron, and Maxine Jones — are coming to the City of Brotherly Love (and Sisterly Affection) this month — for FREE.
You read correctly: FREE. The Global Fusion Festival comes to Penns Landing in Philadelphia on Saturday, July 17th. It is an all day event and En Vogue are the headliners. Other performers include R&B singer Lyfe Jennings and gospel performers JJ Hairston and Youthful Praise.
The last time I saw En Vogue in concert was way back in 1991, during the original quartet’s early heyday. I was living in Cincinnati at the time and they performed at the University Of Cincinnati. The opening act was Arrested Development (for those too young to remember, I am referring to the old school rap group which featured rapper Speech and neosoul singer Dionne Farris, not the TV series).
That was a great concert experience for me. Arrested Development, known for their intelligent Afrocentric rap lyrics and performance, were great for warming up the audience. When the ladies of En Vogue took the stage, us guys went crazy. They just looked hot, as they always do and still do. Midway through their performance, one of the ladies ended up discretely bowing out (apparently, she was ill and could not continue) but the remaining three carried on just fine. They had one lucky gentleman from the audience come up on stage, sit down, and gave him quite the thrill by serenading him and singing all sexy for him. Lucky dude.
I continued following En Vogue throughout the years with its lineup changes. I have all of their studio albums except for their Christmas album back in 2001 with Amanda Cole. Must get that one to complete my collection. Musically, the ladies in the group — including replacement members Amanda Cole and Rhonda Barrett — always sounded great. Commercially, they lost their footing after Robinson left the group. However, she is fully back and the ladies have been making the rounds.
I found out on Wikipedia that the fully reunited founding quartet have a new single coming out this year and a new CD in the works. Yay!
If you live in the Philadelphia area (including southern New Jersey and Delaware), you must check En Vogue out at Penns Lending on Saturday, July 17th.
Posted by T-Mad on 07/02/2010 at 11:08 AM
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