Flow Tribe, who released their second radio single in late June, are headed to Chattanooga to take part in the 21st Annual Southern Brewers Festival on Aug. 22. They will be performing at Ross's Landing at 2 p.m. Tickets are $22.50-$30.
Review for Flow Tribe:
Flow Tribe are road warriors- playing 125+ club and festival dates a year, and the guys just had a standout performance at JazzFest in New Orleans in May.
Since releasing Alligator White on Sept. 9, 2014 Flow Tribe has been steadily finding new fans on FM radio across the country. Increasing airplay, along with the bands nonstop touring schedule and a noteworthy performance at Voodoo Music Fest in New Orleans Halloween weekend helped drive Alligator White to #5 on the Relix/ Jambands.com radio chart in December of last year. Artists who have recently joined them in the top five spots include Primus, Moe., Gary Clark Jr. and Umphrey’s McGee.
According to vocalist K.C. O’Rorke on the band's second radio single, Walk Like An Animal, “We wanted this song to jump out of the speakers and get you and your crew moving from note one. We’re thrilled with how it came out and can’t wait to see people walking it out coast to coast.”
Walk Like An Animal picks up where Alligator White left off, as the band continues to bring their groove based mixture of classic Louisiana music and modern day funk to the masses via the airwaves and via the highways- the band has 50+ club and festival dates on the books for this summer.
Flow Tribe's career started in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, while New Orleans was still recovering from one of the most devastating floods in history. Early (harmonica, washboard, vocals, keyboard), K.C. O'Rorke (vocals, trumpet), Russell Olschner (drums), Chad Penot (bass, vocals), Bryan Santos (guitar, timbales) and Mario Palmisano (guitar) had technically formed the band back in 2004, using Penot's back porch as a makeshift rehearsal space. After high school graduation arrived, though, the boys went their separate ways… only to return two years later, drawn back to New Orleans by the need to rebuild and revitalize.
Eager to be ambassadors for a city that hadn't lost any ounce of its spirit during the flood, Flow Tribe began playing shows for music fans and displaced Katrina survivors throughout the Southeast. They saw the love and appreciation that Americans had for the culture of New Orleans. They also learned that one of the most New Orleans-ish aspects of Flow Tribe's sound — the combination of different styles, sounds and genres into the same melting pot — appealed just as much to people who'd never visited the Big Easy. After all, Flow Tribe's genre spanning "backbone -cracking music" had a little bit of something for everyone.
Flow Tribe's latest release, Walk Like An Animal, is the crystallization of a sound that's been brewing since those early days on Penot's porch. The result is a track that bounces between funk and rock and makes you want to get out on the dance floor. There's no better representation of Flow Tribe's wide-ranging capabilities… apart from the band's live show, of course.