All available (and updated) at: http://www.myspace.com/of...degeocello
and
http://www.freemyheart.com


Apr 5 2008 10:30P Reading, Pennsylvania
Berks Jazz Festival (as a member of Global Noize)

Apr 7 2008 8:00P New York, New York
Highline Ballroom (as a member of Global Noize)

Apr 19 2008 9:00P Chicago, Illinois
The Kinetic Playground

Apr 20 2008 2:30P Chicago, Illinois
Lincoln Park Zoo (FREE as part of Green Apple Festival)

May 5 2008 6:30P Tokyo, Tokyo
Billboard Live Tokyo

May 5 2008 9:30P Tokyo, Tokyo
Billboard Live Tokyo

May 6 2008 6:30P Tokyo, Tokyo
Billboard Live Tokyo

May 6 2008 9:30P Tokyo, Tokyo
Billboard Live Tokyo

May 7 2008 6:30P Tokyo, Tokyo
Billboard Live Tokyo

May 7 2008 9:30P Tokyo, Tokyo
Billboard Live Tokyo

May 8 2008 6:30P Osaka, Osaka
Billboard Live Osaka

May 8 2008 9:30P Osaka, Osaka
Billboard Live Osaka

Jun 14 2008 12:00P Austin, Texas
Texas Pride @ Auditorium Shores

Jul 31 2008 8:00P Brooklyn, New York
BAM, Metrotech

Sep 19 2008 8:00P Duisburg-Nord
Landschaftspark

Sep 20 2008 8:00P Duisburg-Nord
Landschaftspark


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I'll be at both her Chicago stops!!!

Stymie said:

hell yaeh...i wanted to go but could not get time off from work to make the trip up to Chitown this time...

if you can please report back the details!

justhemusic said:

No problem.

bumped for next weeks shows...Chicago here she comes...

nobody I like ever plays Kauai.





nobody plays Kauai. oh, wait, Margaret Cho was here awhile back.




nobody I like ever plays Kauai.

just updated the time for the Sunday FREE show at Green Apple Festival...yes i said FREE...it's one of those outdoor festivals with many artists and Meshell is scheduled to go on at 2:30
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justhemusic said:

full show in Chicago tomorrow & free mini show Sunday...lucky Chicagan's!

justhemusic said:

I want 2 go aww man !! 2 soon though

from okayplayer...a nice review of the Saturday nights Chicago show

"Meshell Ndegeocello - Kinetic Playground, 4/19 (Chicago)

I nearly missed a really great show last night. I'd gone out on Friday night and everything was telling me to skip Meshell... I didn't want to spend the money, I had to work early the next morning, it just seemed like a really bad idea.

But then I checked out the venue size... 500 people max capacity. I knew I couldn't pass it up. I'm glad I didn't.

There were two negative aspects to the show that I'll get out of the way at the start. First, the doors opened at 9 but she didn't take the stage until 11:30 (they originally said she'd get up there around 10:30). Folks were definitely starting to get a little tired of waiting. Secondly, she played for just over an hour.

But on with the review: she got up there at 11:30 and announced that they'd be playing through mostly new material. She was backed by a bassist, a guitarist and a drummer... the sound that just the four of them put out was huge and really well-rounded.

I was *really* impressed with the new material. On the one hand it sounds completely radical for her, taking some of the rock edge that you hear on "the world has made me the man of my dreams" and fleshing it out even more. The melodies are very limited in their range (as in the scope of a given line) and Meshell seems to be going for a sort of purer vocal tone, slightly distant and fluid. I can't help but make at least one comparison here: it sounds like she's been listening to a lot of Smiths records (and other similar artists), I kept thinking of Morissey throughout the whole show, and I don't mean that in a bad way. I want to say she's been listening to some really good punk, too... several tunes she played were short (as in two minutes short) and thus fell outside a normal verse-chorus-verse-bridge type structure (maybe she's exploring those DC roots via punk???).

But on the other hand, the music is distinctly Meshell. Her trademark shift between sung and spoken vocals (which are so effective live) was present and accounted for. The surprising twists and turns that she's been doing since day one are still there, too... but the difference is that some of those twists took her into *hard* territory, crunching distorted guitar work and really hard-hitting drums.

In short, it was a rock show. A really outstanding rock show. There are still a lot of other influences that come out in the music, for sure, and there was some nice improvisational and instrumental work that reminded me of some loose, out-there jazz.

She played a few tunes from "the world..." - Evolution, Sloganeer and Article 3 (!!!). She got some major cheers for The Sloganeer (I guess that's the decided favorite from the album?). The arrangements were all relatively different from the record (always nice) and all were on point.

A final note: the number of genres Meshell has pretty much conquered in her career is just stunning, and the fact that she sounds so natural in all of them is equally amazing. She seemed perfectly at home in a rock environment as she does in any other musical setting. It's easy to see why some of her fans are so... um, dedicated? She has an engaging and slightly eccentric stage presence that is only upstaged by her talent.

I just wish there would have been more people there.

-thebigfunk"