Amoeba Berkeley's packed, high energy, and hella fun in-store performance by Ivory Coast singer
Fely Tchaco on Saturday evening (June 2nd), proved just what a wonderful musical gift to the world the
Amoeba Music in-stores are.
And Saturday's extended concert, which was part of the larger
Berkeley World Music Festival that ran all day Saturday in the
Telegraph Ave/Peoples Park area, was extra wonderful. As the happy guy beside me at Amoeba on Saturday, in the aisle nestled between the reggae CDs and the used jazz vinyl, enthused at the one hour, five minute mark in the energetic show, "I've never seen any show at Amoeba Music that went for longer than an hour. This is unusual. And I come to Amoeba in-stores all the time. They're great!" Indeed they are great and Saturday's show, that culminated in lots of audience members jumping up on stage to dance along with the band, was extra great since it ran for a full hour and a quarter which was especially long because it was part of the festival. Now in its ninth year the
Berkeley World Music Festival included Peoples Park stage headliner
Maria Muldaur and her
Bluesianna Band whose set finished at 6pm. And afterwards many of the Muldaur audience exited the park & headed down the half block to filter into Amoeba and fill all the remaining open spaces in the aisles of the big record store to catch Fely's great set.
Amoeba Hollywood has started regularly selling tickets to local shows, with the added bonus of charging low service fees (if you're into saving money and who isn't really?).
