Snarky Puppy

American band Snarky Puppy will perform on 1 May at 7:30 pm at Sono Music Club in Brno.

Snarky Puppy is a genre-defying band who have won awards in categories from jazz to R’n’B. It all began in Denton, Texas – a small town with a big musical heritage. Denton is the home of the first-ever faculty of jazz, founded in 1947and one of whose graduates is Michael League, who founded Snarky Puppy as a ten-piece band for the purposes of a school project. The band quickly clicked, on both a musical and a personal level, and, following their live debut at J&J Pizza on the main square and a handful of gigs at other obscure Denton venues, League decided to record their debut album The Only Constant on a shoestring budget, and to book their first ever tour of small clubs and student parties between Texas and League's native Virginia. For the first ten years of its existence, the band criss-crossed the States playing all manner of dives wherever the bookers would have them. League and a couple of bandmates moved to nearby Dallas, where they immersed themselves in the gospel and Rn'B scenes, impressing local musicians and persuading them to guest with the band. And so it was that Bobby Sparks, Mark Lettieri, Bernard Wright, and Shaun Martin came to join the Snarky family.