Win Tickets To See Robert Randolph and the Family Band at the 9:30 Club!

by | Dec 2, 2014 | MUSIC

Ladies and gentlemen, rock n’ roll! Robert Randolph is bringing his Family Band to Washington DC next week, and you could see their electrifying performance for free!

Ladies and gentlemen, rock n’ roll! Robert Randolph is bringing his Family Band to Washington DC next week, and you could see their electrifying performance for free! Randolph, a pedal steel guitar player of extraordinary talent, got his start as part of the African-American Pentecostal tradition of sacred steel, but was eventually discovered by the secular music world, which he proceeded to conquer. Equally influenced by guitar-driven funk like Sly and the Family Stone and by blues-derived rock n’ rollers like Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan, Randolph combines all of these formative inspirations into a high-energy sound that’s propelled by his outstanding steel guitar shredding. He shows off his talent and passionate live performance on “Amped Up,” the opening track from Robert Randolph and the Family Band’s latest album, Lickety Split–check it out here:

If you’d like to see an entire evening’s worth of that sort of eminently danceable awesomeness (and why wouldn’t you?), the 9:30 Club is the place to be next Wednesday night. The DC venue will be presenting an evening with Robert Randolph and the Family Band, which you can expect to keep you out of your seats and dancing your ass off all night.

WHAT: Robert Randolph and the Family Band take over the 9:30 Club!
WHERE: 9:30 Club, 815 V St NW, Washington DC
WHEN: Wednesday, December 10, Doors open at 7 PM
ADMISSION: $25 in advance–order tickets HERE

And best of all, you could see the entire evening’s entertainment absolutely free! We’re giving away a pair of tickets to this show to one lucky RVA Magazine winner, and all you have to do is plug your info into the Punchtab box below! Keep an eye out for extra chances to win, and be sure to enter before Friday at noon, because that’s when we’ll shut this whole thing down and choose a winner!

THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THIS GIVEAWAY: All tickets are non-transferable. Winners will be announced on twitter and facebook. Punchtab will also send you a notification email if you win, but those emails seem to go straight to a lot of people’s spam folders, so keep an eye out.

Marilyn Drew Necci

Marilyn Drew Necci

Former GayRVA editor-in-chief, RVA Magazine editor for print and web. Anxiety expert, proud trans woman, happily married.




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