Electrifying soul performer Charles Bradley has three Florida dates this week -- Tallahassee on Feb. 23, Ponte Vedra on Feb. 24 and Gainesville Feb. 25. He will do a fourth Florida show at Tampa's Gasparilla Festival on March 13 before he heads off on a European tour.
Bradley was born in Gainesville, and he'll be playing a FREE concert at a downtown plaza dedicated to another Gainesville legend - Bo Diddley -- on the 25th.(The Savants of Soul and Little Jake & The Soul Searchers also play this free outdoor show, which runs 6-10 p.m.)
If you've never seen the documentary about Bradley's life: Soul of America, you should check it out. Bradley led a hardscrabble life and worked for years as a cook and a James Brown impersonator called "Black Velvet" before a Daptone record producer caught his James Brown act in a New York club and asked him to start recording for Daptone.
Expect killer pipes, lots of theatrics, and a show you will be talking about later.
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