Chuck Prophet
Tickets

Chuck Prophet

+ Our Man in the Field


0 CAMBRIDGE: Green Mind @ The Portland Arms (info)
P Thursday 27th February, 2025
N Door time: 7:00pm
. 14+ (under 18s must be accompanied by an adult)
C Music - Folk/blues/world

Event information

For twelve long days, Chuck Prophet waited. A stage four lymphoma diagnosis had knocked the wind out of him, dragged him off the road and into surgery, and now here he was, a perpetual motion machine forced to sit still, confronting his mortality for the first time as he wondered if he'd live long enough to see the end of the year, let alone get back on tour.

"I was going through a tunnel," he recalls. "It was dark. But I had music: music to play, music to listen to, music to get me out of my head. Music was my saviour."

That much is plain to hear on "Wake The Dead", Prophet's extraordinary - and unlikely - new album. Recorded with Qiensave, a band of brothers from the Central Coast farming community of Salinas, California, the collection dives headfirst into the world of Cumbia music, which consumed and comforted Prophet during his illness and subsequent recovery. The songs are intoxicatingly rhythmic, with arrangements that blur the lines between tradition and innovation, between past and present, between cultures and countries. There are flashes of rock and roll, punk, surf, and soul, all filtered through the streets of San Francisco and wrapped up in the rich legacy of a genre that traces its roots back hundreds of years and thousands of miles.

Price includes a 50p venue levy

Tickets

General Admission

29 tickets available

Total price: £28.10
Ticket price: £25.50, Booking fee: £2.60

Venue information

CAMBRIDGE: Green Mind @ The Portland Arms
0 129 Chesterton Rd
Cambridge
CB4 3BA
> www.greenmind.co.uk
! 01223 357268
` Unless otherwise stated, all our events at The Portland Arms are standing, with no seated areas. If you have accessibility requirements, please email website-queries@greenmind.co.uk