The Wooten Brothers
Saturday, June 27 at 8pm
Waterville Opera House
Waterville Opera House, 1 Common Street, Waterville, Maine
The Wooten brothers’ first public performance occurred in Hawaii in 1966 and established their identity as prodigies. Since then, Victor Wooten & the Wooten Brothers (brothers Regi, Roy, and Jospeh) have racked up 10 Grammy wins, and 26, yes, 26 Grammy nominations. And the youngest of the family, Victor, the brother who learned from all his older brothers, has been named by Rolling Stone Magazine as one of the ten greatest bass players of all time.
As a family band, they are second to none. The Brothers' music bends and defines genres, amplifies centuries, and spans continents. The Wooten Brothers began in R&B before evolving as teens into jazz, jazz fusion, classical, and country. Then, they emerged in 1985 on Arista records with an album called The Wootens that combined electronic, funk, soul, disco, and Boogie—and offered only a sliver of the Wooten whole. The Wooten whole is all of that…and classical, and jazz, and country, and rock-and-roll.
Connecting a musically deep past to musical future, the Wooten Brothers explode genres and build bridges across genres. Bar by bar, in live performances and on recordings, they provide an exhilarating ‘connects-you-to-the-center-of-the-universe’ sound.