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WOW!
MY FIRST TIME EVER SEEING THIS VIDEO
DIDN'T KNOW THEY HAD DANCE MOVES LIKE THAT!
- from the topic: "Are You Free"... the MUSIC VIDEO!
Eric Benet on Fox 19 in Cincinnati discussing the tour and how him and Mint Condition are similar.
November 6, 2009 by dnickz
Re: Mint Condition, Ledisi, Eric Benet Tour Dates Announced
October 29, 2009 by dnickz
MEMPHIS, TN ORPHEUM THEATRE WEBSITE
http://www.orpheum-memphis.com/index.cfm?section=comattrac&page=details&showid=670
Re: Mint Condition, Ledisi, Eric Benet Tour Dates Announced
October 29, 2009 by dnickz
KANSAS CITY, MO & MEMPHIS. TN TIX GO ON SALE TOMORROW OCTOBER 30TH @ 10:00AM CDT
MIDLAND BY THE AMC - KANSAS CITY, MO DECEMBER 4TH, 2009 @ 8PM
http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/0600435AB4A4C175?artistid=780717&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=202
ORPHEUM THEATRE - MEMPHIS, TN - DECEMBER 5TH, 2009 @ 8PM
http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/1B00435D7F874388?artistid=780717&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=202
Re: Mint Condition, Ledisi, Eric Benet Tour Dates Announced
October 23, 2009 by dnickz
PARAMOUNT THEATER - SEATTLE, WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 27TH, 2009
Paramount Theatre in Seattle on Friday, November 27, 2009.
This will be an evening for music lovers featuring Neo Soul, Contemporary Jazz & the essence of an R & B band, all merging together for "The Sexy Soul Tour."
http://stgpresents.org/artists/?artist=1174
Re: Mint Condition, Ledisi, Eric Benet Tour Dates Announced
October 23, 2009 by dnickz
ACADEMY OF MUSIC - PHILADELPHIA, PA NOVEMBER 20TH, 2009
http://www.kimmelcenter.org/events/index.php?id=3608
Re: Mint Condition, Ledisi, Eric Benet Tour Dates Announced
October 21, 2009 by dnickz
NEW YORK DATE "BEACON THEATER" 11/19/09
Tickets go on Sale Friday! 10/23/09
http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/1D004354E3E47A88?artistid=1377560&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=202
R&B Smoothie Eric Benét`s "Sexy Soul Tour" Announced
October 20, 2009 by dnickz
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20091020006179/en
Special Guest Appearances by Mint Condition and Ledisi
BURBANK, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
Singer Eric Benét will embark on a 19-city tour called the "Sexy Soul Tour"
beginning October 29th in Houston`s Verizon Wireless Theatre, it was confirmed
today by his record label, Friday/Reprise Records. Benét has long been
considered one of the most romantic live performers out there with a legion of
devoted fans - male and female.
The handsome R&B Grammy nominated crooner will be joined by Mint Condition and
Ledisi. Benét's most recent ultra-romantic CD, "Love and Life," debuted on the
Billboard Top 200 Album Chart at No. 11 and was a collaboration with longtime
production partner Demonte Posey. People Magazine, which gave "Love and Life" 3
1/2 stars, glowed, "Fans of the female persuasion will rejoice when they hear
the R&B singer/songwriter regain his footing."
ERIC BENÉT/MINT CONDITION/LEDISI - SEXY SOUL TOUR - FALL 2009 SCHEDULE:
October 29 Houston, TX Verizon Wireless
October 31 Atlanta, GA Fox Theatre
November 1 Charlotte, NC Ovens Auditorium
November 5 Cincinnati, OH Music Hall
November 6 Cleveland, OH Palace Theatre
November 7 Detroit, MI Masonic Temple Theatre
November 8 Milwaukee, WI Riverside Theatre
November 12 Minneapolis, MN State Theatre
November 13 Chicago, IL Arie Crown
November 19 New York, NY Beacon Theatre
November 20 Philadelphia, PA Academy Of Music
November 21 Norfolk, VA Chrysler Theatre
December 3 St. Louis, MO The Pageant
December 4 Kansas City, MO The Midland
December 5 Memphis, TN Orpheum Theatre
December 6 Dallas, TX Nokia Theatre
Warner Bros. Records Publicity
Richie Abbott, 818-953-3408
richie.abbott@wbr.com
or
Liz Rosenberg, 212-707-3256
liz.rosenberg@wbr.com
Re: Mint Condition, Ledisi, Eric Benet Tour Dates Announced
October 14, 2009 by dnickz
| http://www.hennepintheatretrust.org/eventdesc/?event=255 |
MINNEAPOLIS DATE
Venue:
DETROIT & CHICAGO TIX GOING ON SELL 10/14 & 10/16
October 12, 2009 by dnickz
http://www.ticketmaster.com/search?tm_link=tm_header_search&q=Mint+Condition&search.x=0&search.y=0
MUSIC HALL - DETROIT - NOVEMBER 7TH 2009 - TIX GO ON SALE WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 14, 2009
(IT WAS THE MASONIC TEMPLE, BUT THEY CHANGED IT TO THE MUSIC HALL)
AIRE CROWN THEATER - CHICAGO - NOVEMBER 13TH 2009 - TIX GO ON SALE FRIDAY OCTOBER 16TH, 2009.
ALSO THEY FINALLY PUT THE DATES ON THEIR MYSPACE PAGE..
Re: Mint Condition, Ledisi, Eric Benet Tour Dates Announced
October 10, 2009 by dnickz
http://riversidetheater.org/sexysoultour
Tickets: $39.75 & $59.75
reserved seats • all ages •
non-smoking • handicap accessible • doors 6pm
............................................
The Riverside Theater
116 W. Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee, WI
53203
Re: Mint Condition, Ledisi, Eric Benet Tour Dates Announced
October 8, 2009 by dnickz
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Nov 06, 2009
Presented by PlayhouseSquare.PALACE THEATRE Tickets on Sale 10/10/2009 at 11AM. |
Re: Mint Condition, Ledisi, Eric Benet Tour Dates Announced
October 3, 2009 by dnickz
yeah they'll be around my hometown (Toledo, OH)..
Detroit, Cincinnati, Cleveland.....
Re: Mint Condition, Ledisi, Eric Benet Tour Dates Announced
October 3, 2009 by dnickz
3 MORE DATES ADDED:
The Sexy Soul Tour with Ledisi & Mint Condition
11/27/09 - Seattle, Washington - Paramount
11/28/09 - Sacramento, CA - Comm. Theatre
11/29/09 - Los Angeles, CA - Gibson Theatre
Innuendo - You Send Me Swingin' (Cover)
September 26, 2009 by dnickz
It's great to see how diverse Mint Condition fanbase is!
Re: Mint Condition, Ledisi, Eric Benet Tour Dates Announced
September 26, 2009 by dnickz
I was actually surprised that they wasn't haven't a show down there.
Mint Condition, Ledisi, Eric Benet Tour Dates Announced
September 26, 2009 by dnickz
I found these dates on Ledisi MySpace page...
102.9 KBLX Live on Air In Studio Interview with Mint Condition today @ 9am (PST)
August 29, 2009 by dnickz
Sorry for the extra extra late notice, but I just found out by searching through twitter..
KBLXkimmie: I'll have a special in-studio interview tomorrow with MINT CONDITION around 9am! Be sure to listen live @ www.kblx.com about 18 hours ago from web
They're supposed to be on in 25 mins!
12pm EST 9am PST!
Snippets of the Frankie Beverly & Maze Tribute CD..
August 20, 2009 by dnickz
7. "Back in Stride" - Mint Condition (4:51)
Enjoy!
MINT CONDITION LIVE AUGUST 28-30TH 2009 AT YOSHI'S IN SAN FRANSISCO, CA
July 27, 2009 by dnickz
http://www.yoshis.com/sanfrancisco/jazzclub/artistpopup?showid=436
Mint Condition
Aug 28-Aug 30, 2009
Friday 8pm & 10pm $35
Saturday 8 pm & 10pm $35
Sunday 8 pm $35 (one show)
Modern, infectious soul grooves fringed with Latin and jazz, buoyed by fiery dashes of rock and funk; when musicians create —as well as sustain—that level of quality for nearly two decades, they are more than an average group or band….they become, in fact, Mint Condition.
After five successful studio albums, over a dozen hit singles, multiple world tours and collaborations with some of the biggest stars in the genre (Alicia Keys, Jill Scott, Janet Jackson, Charlie Wilson of the Gap Band and Maurice White of Earth, Wind &Fire, to name a few), Mint Condition is a rarity in today’s R&B, their generation’s lone example of ‘old school’ bands that now serve as templates for many of their peers. And it’s their classic, yet contemporary approach, combined with Stokley’s agile and emotive tenor, which fuels their sixth studio CD and the second release from their independent label (Cagedbird Entertainment), eLife. The recurring theme: filtering the challenges of family and relationships through the murky cosmos of the internet. According to their bass guitarist, Rick Kinchen, those are issues that nearly everyone’s encountered before. “People text-message, use MySpace and e-mail, so it’s about having relationships in the context of our world today. Everybody’s said ‘in a minute’ to their kid, stayed on the computer and watched it turn into three and four hours later. ”
In fact, the perpetual balancing act is what inspired eLife’s opening track, “Baby Boy Baby Girl” (featuring Anthony Hamilton). Although the celebratory song hits home for the musician, Rick says that its message is a universal one. “You’ll go through all kinds of relationships, but your kids are the only ones who will be there in the end. I didn’t want the song to be only about me though, so I included other situations that I’ve watched my friends go through as well.”
Other songs expressing such struggles include the wistfully edgy “Wish I Could Love You,” the angst-filled “Somethin’,”, featuring Little Brother’s Phonte, and the CD’s most intriguing cut, “Why Do We Try,” showcased by a haunting backdrop of sparse beats and eerie scratches by none other than A Tribe Called Quest’s “sound provider,” Ali Shaheed Muhammad. Its sound is quite a departure for the band and illustrates their willingness to stretch their artistic boundaries.
“It’s very straightforward, with a futuristic Euro sound,” says lead vocalist Stokley Williams. “You will or won’t embrace the song, depending on your mindset.”
And it’s that sort of ingenuity keeping MC alive and thriving in the music biz. Every member of the band, including keyboardists Lawrence El and Keri Lewis, guitarist O’Dell and keyboardist/saxophonist Jeffrey, came of age in the Twin Cities (St. Paul &Minneapolis) and were inspired by Prince’s electrifying hybrid of funk, soul and pop (now known as “The Minneapolis Sound,”). The young men knew of one another peripherally, but the collaborations didn’t fall into place until they united under Central High School’s performing arts program; O’Dell and Stokley, who had a steel drum class together, absorbed the musicians after practicing sessions in Stokley’s home basement. “There was a performing arts class that we were all in,” says Lawrence of that fertile period. “A lot of singers around town would hire musicians and we ended up playing in gigs together as the backing band. It happened so often that eventually, we decided to just do it all ourselves.”
After the band’s line-up was finalized, it was a gig they played at the now-famous First Avenue club in 1989 that caught the attention of The Time’s former members turned super-producers, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, who had just launched their own label, Perspective Records (a subsidiary of A&M). To this day, the band credits the duo for encouraging, as well as respecting, their creative input and autonomy in the studio.
“We were lucky because we had Jimmy and Terry behind us in our careers,” says O’Dell. “They came from a band and understood what we were trying to do. If we had signed up with another label, we wouldn’t have lasted long enough to even make a hit.”
The band’s first single, “Are You Free,” generated some buzz, but it wasn’t until Washington D.C.’s WHUR-FM (Howard University’s famed college radio station) broke the follow-up ballad, 1991’s “Breakin’ My Heart (Pretty Brown Eyes)” that the band experienced their first runaway smash. “Breakin’” peaked at number three on Billboard’s R&B chart and number six in Pop’s top ten, remaining on the charts for 34 weeks. After that, two other stellar albums—From the Mint Factory and Definition of a Band— and a chain of hit singles followed, including “Forever In Your Eyes,” “U Send Me Swingin,” “Someone to Love,” So Fine,” “You Don’t Have to Hurt No More” and “What Kind of Man Would I Be.”
Even when the Perspective label folded and the band moved to Elektra, their fourth CD, Life’s Aquarium, spawned the Billboard R&B top five hit, “If You Love Me.” The band also ensured its longevity by building a reputation for energetic and engaging live performances.
And if the sudden implosion of record labels weren’t enough of a change, another one loomed on the horizon; in 2001, two years after…Aquarium’s release, Keri Lewis departed from the band to produce and tour with his future wife, Toni Braxton; according to his band mates, the split was an amicable one. “We talk on the phone at least once a month and we run into him every now and then. We’re even talking about him joining us on stage for a few dates this summer,” says O’Dell. And in the years that followed, the band, now departed from Elektra, decided to follow Prince’s iconic example and start their own label; its first release under the Cagedbird Records imprint (distributed by Image Entertainment), 2005’s Livin’ the Luxury Brown, debuted at number one on Billboard’s Independent Albums chart and gave the band yet another R&B hit, “I’m Ready.”
The CD eLife, like the band itself, is irresistibly eclectic; it positions Mint Condition as a five-man oasis in R&B’s parched landscape and reinforces their relevance amongst the old and the new school. “We can straddle the fence in both worlds,” Stokley says. “You can’t get the full experience on CD, nor can you get it all by just watching us perform live. Stay tuned to what we’re doing, because our goal is to entertain and inspire. It’s about forward movement.”
http://mintconditionmusic.com/
NEW DATE!!
July 8, 2009 by dnickz
Mint Condition will be performing Live with Eric Benet at the Dar Constitution Hall in Washington D.C., August 9th, 2009 @ 7:00 PM.... Tickets go on sale July 10th, 2009 on Ticketmaster.....
McDonald's at the Essence Music Festival featuring MINT CONDITION - July 3rd, 2009
June 30, 2009 by dnickz
For Immediate Release
June 30, 2009
Contact Information
Nicole Neal
McDonald’s USA, LLC
(630) 623-2901 office
(773) 415-3696 mobile
nicole.neal@us.mcd.com
Tracy Anderson
Burrell Communications
(312) 297-9875 office
(312) 520-4716 mobile
tanderson@burrell.com
(BPRW) McDonald’s ® Brings a Taste of the Sweet Life to the 2009 Essence Music Festival
Offers attendees a McCafé® Experience with Neo-Soul Artist Dwele and Sampling of new Iced Mocha
“The ESSENCE Music Festival is an opportunity to annually reintroduce McDonald’s to hundreds of thousands of visitors from around the country who attend the Festival, which is one of the highlights of our year,” said Carol Sagers, Director of U.S. Marketing, McDonald’s USA. “We are exceptionally proud of our continued support of programs that are important to our consumers. The ESSENCE Music Festival is merely one demonstration of our commitment to being deeply rooted in the African American community throughout the year.”
During the ESSENCE Festival, McDonald’s offers a McCaf� experience at both the Ernest Morial Convention Center, free and open to the public, and at the Superdome for concert-goers. The daily McCaf� Sweet Sound Concert Series at the Convention Center, features performances by legendary R&B group Mint Condition, super crooner Joe and dynamic duo Kindred the Family Soul. Attendees will also have an opportunity to sample the new McCaf Iced Mocha for an indulgent treat at limited times throughout the weekend, while supplies last.
McDonald’s at Essence Music Festival –
Highlights at the Convention Center booth, Friday, July 3 – Sunday, July 5:
• Meet Neo-Soul artist Dwele, the voice behind the McCaf� advertising campaign (Friday, July 3, 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.)
• MTV’s Making The Band’s favorite choreographer Laurie Ann Gibson hits the floor with a dance warm up and marathon from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. A meet-and-greet autograph session follows at 1:15 p.m. (Daily)
• Sample the McCaf Iced Mocha from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. (Daily and while supplies last)
• Groove to the beat of the McCaf Sweet Sound Concert Series with Mint Condition (Friday), Joe (Saturday) and Kindred the Family Soul (Sunday) from 2:00 to 2:45 p.m., followed by a meet-and-greet autograph session with each artist at 3:00 p.m.
The McCaf Experience continues at the Superdome inside the McDonald’s McCaf Mocha Lounge, which features Dwele kicking off the weekend, July 3rd, at 9:15 p.m. In addition to Dwele, the McCaf Mocha Lounge at the Superdome will feature performances by Keri Hilson, DJ Jubilee, Preservation Hall Jazz Band Reserve, Ivan Neville and Dumpstaphunk, Brand New Heavies, Rebirth Brass Band and Zap Mama.
McDonald’s 365Black Awards
The sixth annual McDonald’s 365Black Awards luncheon will take place at the Convention Center, Friday, July 3rd at 11 a.m., held at the Essence Music Festival for the third year in a row. Award-winning journalist Soledad O’Brien, U.S. Representative James E. Clyburn (South Carolina 6th District), New Jersey-based McDonald’s owner/operator Frank Mason, and retired NBA player and philanthropist Alonzo Mourning, along with Black Enterprise founder Earl G. Graves, Sr., are this year’s Award recipients.
About McDonald’s
McDonald's USA, LLC, is the leading foodservice provider in the United States serving a variety of wholesome foods made from quality ingredients to millions of customers every day. More than 80 percent of McDonald's 14,000 U.S. restaurants are independently owned and operated by local franchisees. For more information on McDonald's visit www.mcdonalds.com or log on at any of the 10,000 Wi-Fi enabled McDonald's U.S. restaurants.
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