Cyril Neville Mardi Gras Tour w/ Omari Neville & The Fuel

Cyril Neville, 2-time Grammy Award Winner, is one of the founding fathers of the New Orleans signature funky soul, rock jazz sound that has influenced countless artists and entertained millions of fans over his 5- decade career. Mr. Neville is a vocalist, songwriter,
percussionist, painter, cultural icon and activist who richly deserves his Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Born in 1948 in New Orleans, the youngest of the Neville Brothers was raised in a musical household, with his brothers Aaron, Art and Charles all making waves on the local musical scene. Their uncle George Landry was Big Chief Jolly of the Wild Tchoupitoulas Mardi Gras Indian Tribe, and young Cyril cut his teeth singing and playing percussion with the group. At 19, he joined his brother's band, Art Neville and the Neville Sounds, and released his first single a year later. Art's band soon merged into the seminal group, The Meters, with Cyril, guitarist Leo Nocentelli, bassist George Porter, Jr. and drummer Zigaboo Modeliste. Their early releases - the singles "Sissy Strut, "Look-A-Py-Py" and "Sophisticated Sissy," as well as the Cabbage Alley and the Neville Brothers Fire on the Bayou have become classics, and their funky grooves built a foundation for a large swath of today's American popular music. The Meter's reputation was cemented when the Rolling Stones offered them an opening spot on their 1975 world tour.