Soul and funk icons Earth, Wind & Hearth (EWF) just lately took the stage in entrance of brilliant, multi-colored lights and a various crowd by age and extra on two chilly autumn evenings at Etess Enviornment within the Exhausting Rock Resort & On line casino Atlantic Metropolis. EWF stays one of many biggest teams in music historical past. The Chicago-based group, inducted into the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame in 2000, has impressed many not solely in America however worldwide, and so they nonetheless carry out their iconic hits.
Led by unique members singer and percussionist Philip Bailey, bass guitarist Verdine White, and percussionist and singer Ralph Johnson, EWF took followers on a musical journey via time by taking part in lots of their timeless classics, primarily from the Seventies and Nineteen Eighties. All three unique members performed devices and sang background vocals, together with a solo by Bailey on the kalimba. Additionally onstage had been three horn gamers, a musical director on keyboards, a drummer, and two extra guitarists.
The present included traditional uptempo EWF songs equivalent to “Shining Star,” “Sing a Music,” “Let’s Groove Tonight,” “September,” and “Boogie Wonderland,” all of which bought the group on their toes.
The six-time Grammy Award-winning collective helped mild up a vacation tree at Mohegan Solar earlier than a efficiency on Sunday night time. At that occasion, they carried out a few of their emotion-stirring ballads, together with “Devotion,” “That’s the Approach of the World,” “After the Love Is Gone,” “Would You Thoughts,” and — with Bailey showcasing his still-superb falsetto vocals — “Causes.”
In addition they carried out “Serpentine Hearth,” “Brazilian Rhyme (Beijo Interlude),” “Fantasy,” “Within the Stone,” and a canopy of the Beatles’ “Received to Get You into My Life,” written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney.
The late founding member Maurice White, Verdine’s older brother, was honored and acknowledged. He would have turned 84 on December 19.
EWF will carry out on the Beacon Theatre in New York Metropolis on Monday, Dec. 15, and Tuesday, Dec. 16.
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