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Festival News: CalProg Announces Frogg Cafe For 2007 Festival

Posted on Saturday, December 23 @ 00:50:11 UTC by nightowl

CalProg is proud to announce the first confirmed band for the May 19 festival in Whittier!

Frogg Café is a 6 piece band from the New York metropolitan area making music that incorporates elements of Zappa-esque progressive rock, pop melodicism and fusion jazz. Frogg Café's music is also peppered with an appealing variety of other flavors including Latin music, bluegrass, modern chamber music and avant-garde/experimental. Their energetic live shows feature extended flights of group improvisation that would draw grins from any hardcore jam-band fan.

Following up on the successes of their 2001 self-titled debut Frogg Café (currently available as a remastered edition with a live bonus track) and the 2003 release, Creatures, Frogg Café has been promoting their third studio release, Fortunate Observer Of Time (2005). This album features music that builds on the precedents set by the first two albums, taking it to the next level with a loosely conceptual album. Fortunate Observer Of Time's poetic lyrics explore existential attitudes and crises, ultimately arriving at a distinctly infernal ending! These songs redefine the unique Frogg Café sound, delivering the richly textured progressive fusion gumbo fans of the first two albums have been hoping and waiting for.

The real Frogg Café experience comes when you witness this band performing live! Frogg Café tours extensively throughout the Northeast year-round. In the past year they have performed at The Knitting Factory (NYC), Towne Crier (Pawling, NY), Lizard Lounge (Boston), Nectar's (Burlington, VT) where Page McConnell of Phish sat in on keyboards for a tune, Orion Sound Studios (Baltimore, MD), NEARfest (Northeast Art Rock Festival, PA), Prog in the Park Festival (Rochester, NY), and the NJProghouse Series (NJ). In the summer of 2004, they toured Germany, Austria, and Belgium.


Frogg Caf?: at NEARfest 2005 (photo: Stephanie Sollow)

[Source: CalProg]

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