Lauris Vidal Performs On The Wednesday Sonic Detour

Sonic Detour Wednesday Nov 11 2009 5:00PM

Lauris Vidal--an immensely talented, somewhat nomadic Florida musician whom the Tampa music scene is smartly claiming as its own--will perform during the second hour of the Sonic Detour Nov. 11, alongside the exceptional rhythm section of bassist Roberto Aguilar and drummer Billy Dean.

I saw these these guys in late June, and I was so blown away that I still think about the show. In an e-mail afterward to Bev (that became the core of a blog post), I said that "Lauris comes across as an emerging major artist: insanely gifted, adventurous in a host of ways, a great synthesizer of influences but clearly heeding a powerful muse a yield a wholly original blast of art...."

There's more, including that the rhythm section could remind you of John Paul Jones & Bonzo as much as Sly & Robbie. Not bad. These three guys will perform for much of the Sonic Detour's second hour, and we'll include a brief interview with Lauris.

They'll also perform later this week, on Nov. 14, joining Have Gun, Will Travel for HGWT's CD release party at the New World Brewery. http://www.myspace.com/laurisvidal

Thanks, Duncan